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Evaluating Levels of Understanding, Knowledge, and Interest in using Art Therapy as a Form of Self-Care in Undergraduate College Students and Faculty
(2017)This thesis reviewed the perceived lack of knowledge and research of art as self-care on a college campus. Undergraduate student and faculty populations were surveyed to find out what type of opportunities are utilized to ... -
An Evaluation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at the University Catholic Center, Austin, Texas 1986-1993
(1995)At the University Catholic Center (UCC) in Austin, Texas, the effectiveness of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) process in meeting the pastoral needs of its participants and the stated goals indicated by ... -
Evidence and Support for Developing a Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership
(2017)The nonprofit sector has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade alone. The nonprofit sector represents the third largest industry, right behind retail and manufacturing. This means nearly 11 million people are nonprofit ... -
Evoking Earth
(2001)This project consists of a recorded collection of eleven original songs that are based on the goals and objectives of the Earth Literacy Masters program. Through these songs and recordings, | seek to encourage the evoking ... -
Examining Art in Grief Associated with Client Death to Discover Effective Natural Processing of Grief: A Retrospective Heuristic Examination of an Art Therapy Student’s Experience
(2006)Professionals in mental health and medical fields are likely to encounter difficult situations when working with clients who die within their clinical setting, often making countertransference and professional burnout ... -
Examining Music Therapists' Singing and Playing-Related Injuries: A Collective Case Study
(2020)Many music therapists experience a musculoskeletal injury and/or vocal injury over the course of their careers. There is a lot of research conducted in this area with orchestral musicians and professional singers but ... -
Examining the Use of Scrapbooking with Family Members Who Have Lost a Loved One to Alzheimer’s Disease and/or Dementia
(2017)This study examined the effect of scrapbooking on memory recall with adults who have lost a loved one to Alzheimer’s disease and/or dementia. This was a heuristic study by the researcher who completed a scrapbook in memory ... -
Excellence in Memory Care
(2017)The focus of this paper will be on excellence in memory care and research, that supports the idea of providing continuous stimuli, to a person afflicted with Alzheimer's, can gift them with a quality of life that they would ... -
An Exercise in Lay Theology
(1994)This writer was asked to develop and present to a voluntary class at his home church a theologically oriented program that would serve three basic purposes. The first was to generate additional parishioner interest in ... -
An Experience of Quiet
(1989)As the administrator of a Catholic religious education center, and also as a lay woman involved in leadership roles in my parish, I have observed first hand a deep and pervasive need among adults, both male and female. It ... -
Experiences of Music Therapists of Color Working with Autistic Individuals of Color
(2022)Literature discussing the perceptions of racially/ethnically diverse music therapists is limited. This preliminary study aimed to explore the racialized experiences of music therapists of color who had experience working ... -
Experiences of Using Art with Middle School Educators to Examine Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022)The following qualitative study analyzed the experiences of middle school educators’ engagement in group art directives. Data was collected over a 4-week period, and a group semi-open interview was utilized to elicit ... -
Exploration of Possible Changes in Response to Visual Stimuli of Individuals with Dementia
(2011)This qualitative pilot research study searched for patterns in response to visual stimuli by persons with dementia. To date, limited information was found in professional art therapy journals regarding dementia and visual ... -
Exploring Musical Intimacy as a Therapeutic Element: A Phenomenological Inquiry
(2021)The foundational research on musical intimacy was conducted by Medcalf and McFerran (2016), in which they coined the term to describe music therapist’s feelings of strong connections through music making with clients. ... -
Exploring Relevant Research Pertaining to Sensory Art Experiences of Older Adults with Dementia: Creating a Sensory Art Therapy Studio
(2014)There is a growing body of research pertaining to the elderly diagnosed with dementia and the benefits of expressive sensory experiences. This systematic literature review is intended to support sensory art therapy as a ... -
Exploring the Creation of Virtual Therapeutic Art in Second Life
(2009)Social virtual worlds are 3D non-gaming online environments where people meet and collaborate. These virtual worlds may eventually offer a way to deliver art therapy services at a distance. This paper addresses the ... -
Exploring the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) and the Graphic Narrative (GN) in the Treatment of Trauma
(2018)According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy works by utilizing various techniques that incorporate the “kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic” methods through visual expression (“How art therapy ... -
Exploring the Use of Art with a United Nations Combat Survivor Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury
(2017)This is a case study with a United Nations combat veteran who witnessed the same atrocities of war that an active duty soldier would. The expressive arts provided him with the ability to cope with the traumas he suffered ... -
Expressive Therapies Continuum of Art Therapy: Reduction of Agression in Residential Adolescent Population with Attachment Disorders
(2015)The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) dimension of Art Therapy focused on the ability to process cognitive and emotional information. To date there was limited research on the effectiveness of the ETC framework regarding ... -
Extreme Makeover: Institutional Repository Edition
(2022)In the fall of 2020, several initiatives were begun at the Rooney Library to facilitate and increase open access to local research and scholarship via its institutional repository. The need to provide greater access to ...