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The population of ethnically diverse older adults in the US is rapidly growing, and reports of cognitive impairments, such as those caused by Alzheimer's disease, are becoming more prevalent. This investigation explored whether art...
The field of art therapy has gained momentum in its collaboration with neuroscience in the quest for greater empirical evidence for the efficacy of the field. While there have been a few studies testing the applicability of salivary...
This study was an exploration into how seniors who participate in art workshops at the senior center experienced and made sense of their art museum visitations. In light of the rapidly increasing aging population in most countries around...
Suffering traumatic events and the stress disorders that may develop as a result of these experiences disrupt the successful daily functioning and the quality of a person's life. The current art therapy protocols that serve to combat the...
After numerous obstacles and the inability to establish a placement in which to conduct my thesis, I decided to reframe my topic in order to explore the challenges of conducting art therapy research as a graduate student. Previous...
The purpose of this research study was to investigate the use of an art therapy intevention program designed to improve perceptual experiencing of children with delays in visual perceptual development Seventy-four children, from first...
Studies have been done on contemporary non-traditional quilts in the larger quilting context in Alabama (Arnett et al., 2002; Callahan, 1987), Arizona (Hazard, 1993), Arkansas (Benberry, 2000), and Kentucky (Benberry, 1992). However, ...
This study sought to determine the effectiveness of portrait drawing as an art therapy intervention for adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a way to improve communication and social skills as well as increase an understanding...
Few research studies have been conducted specifically focused on change process in marital art therapy. A need for more quantitative research in art therapy has been established. This research study focused on the results of a quasi...
The present qualitative study explored college student responses to personal clay use or mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) twice a week for stress reduction. Participants were recruited from a larger art therapy study, in which the...
The purpose of this case study is to examine the nature of the teaching in the painting and drawing program at Florida State University. Aspects to be considered in this case study will include the philosophy of the program as...
With art programs becoming more prominent in medical environments, this research seeks to investigate the way art materials are being used and perceived in these settings. Through observation of one pediatric unit and information...
The experiences encountered during combat and military service can have lasting effects on mental health, physical health, and well-being for our nation’s veterans. Older veterans make up a large majority of the U.S. veteran population...
Abstract Many children with disfigurements have low self-concept as a result of their beliefs about themselves and about what society thinks about them. Some disfigured children are teased, taunted, stared at, and made to feel inferior...
Using a single subject research design, two university students, one with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia (PDA) and one with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), received seven individual, one-hour sessions incorporating art therapy...
This dissertation seeks to better understand the concept of community engagement through the application of the arts to address social concerns. This case study focused on The Tallahassee Community Chorus and its performance of “Sing for...
African American brothers, Hodges and Rogers Glenn taught art in Frenchtown, in Tallahassee, Florida during the tumultuous 50s and 60s. In spite of its marginalization, the community of Frenchtown was a thriving self-sustaining mecca for...
Parkinson's disease affects millions of individuals worldwide. The physical symptoms of the disease, including tremor, rigidity, and slowness of movement, are devastating. In the same sense, the cognitive and emotional symptoms of the...
Research investigated the effectiveness of an art therapy intervention based on the conversational model in improving the quality of the relationship in a caregiving dyad. Caregiving dyads were composed of spousal caregivers and spouses...
According to Jung, one's uniqueness and individuality comes from his or her natural development towards wholeness. Much of this development is seen through symbols of the unconscious. The use of mandalas as a creative tool allows these...
ABSTRACT Long standing tensions between formalism and instrumentalism are affecting the criteria through which scholars approach analysis of western arts and letters. This problem houses many others, most relevantly, the troubled state...
This study focuses on a group of students participating in a summer music camp on a large public university's main campus. The study investigates their characteristics and illuminates some of the influences and important factors within...
The purpose of this study was to critically investigate artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña's performance piece, Brownout: Border Pulp Stories in context for the meaning it holds with implications for art education. The guiding question was what...
This study is a personal contribution to the design for wellbeing phenomenon. Using a pragmatic-phenomenological paradigm, the main goal of this research was to conduct a design-based investigation from a human-centered perspective to...
In recent decades, rapid globalization has led to an upsurge of interest in global health initiatives. Mental health in particular has received increased focused, as research demonstrates that nearly 14% of the global burden of disease...
The aim of this qualitative study was to understand women’s experience of becoming a mother through art-making process. New mothers often experience adjustment hardships due to a mismatch between pre-existing stories and their real lived...
This study investigated how art therapy can be used as a coping tool for the anxiety provoking adjustment process of transitioning from high school to college. This adjustment period is becoming an area of greater concern for more and...
Children today, as with most people in our society, are inundated with a constant barrage of advertisements. This study first looked at how a specific group of adolescents view, interpret and use messages from advertising in their daily...
This phenomenological study identifies key morphological properties of spatial configurations in two contemporary educational buildings--the William Johnston Building at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) and the Mandel...
This study investigated the use of a mandala drawing activity to reduce test anxiety in a small group of fifth grade students. A group of six students both boys and girls from a private North Florida School participated in the 4 week...
Examining Critical and Creative Thinking of High School Students Making Art in a Learner-Directed Art Class The purpose of this study was to provide a close up examination of high school students' critical and creative thinking during...
This study presents the experiences and critical perspectives of a small, racially diverse group of veteran arts educators in urban schools in order to counter deficit-based fears and stereotypes about their students, schools, and...
There is a lack of research on intervention protocols for adolescent children of alcoholics who are high achieving and demonstrate a low probability of substance use disorders. Historically, these children have high academic success and...
Cognitive deficits, including thought disturbances, have impacted the language production capabilities of individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorders. This research study explored the...
Children with special needs often have a tendency to be externally oriented because of their accumulated failure experiences. Accordingly, when children enjoy successful experiences through art making, they may be more likely to feel a...
This study is based in the belief that we may use visual images as means of communication. In today's multicultural and globalized modern society the development of communication technology and transportation has made is extremely...
With the widespread application of art therapy in the treatment of eating disorders, this research investigated the effectiveness of art therapy for addressing an essential aspect of eating disorder prevention and recovery: increasing...
Although the field of art therapy has made enormous headway in quantitative research within the last ten years, there are still significant gaps that need explored. Most quantitative research on art therapy and stress is organized in...
Family systems theory emphasizes the family as a whole system dependent on the interactions between members. The recent integration of family systems theory and art therapy has developed into family art therapy (Kwiatkowska, 2001)....
The majority of veterans entering college today have served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Coming from an all-volunteer military, this population has expressed feelings of social isolation and challenges adjusting to the...
Art as a Mirror and Window on Cultural Diversity in South Korea: A Critical Analysis of Artworks by Three Contemporary Artists with Implications for Art Education
Today's societies are becoming ever more culturally diverse. A traditionally mono-cultural society, South Korea is in the midst of remarkably rapid changes that have made cultural diversity a widely discussed topic in education and many...
This master's thesis explores the development of two co-existing narratives. First, the design of a phenomenological study that sought to explore the in-depth lived experience of college students with bipolar disorder through an arts...
Daddies Cry Too: A Cumulative Collage Process to Explore Fathers Lived Experiences of Paternal Postpartum Depression: Phenomenological Arts-Informed Study
The purpose of this qualitative arts-informed phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of fathers with postpartum depression. The focus of this study was to use an arts-informed interview process based upon...
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