Woods Scholars: Recent submissions
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From Grounding to Common Ground: Exploring the Art for Peace Group as a Contemplative Practice
(2023)From Grounding to Common Ground is a qualitative research study that explored the potential of the Art for Peace group as a creative, contemplative practice. As an organizing element, this paper referred to the widely ... -
The Presence of Post-Traumatic Growth in Women with Perinatal Loss: A Qualitative Study
(2023)The following is a qualitative study investigating the presence of post-traumatic growth in women who have experienced perinatal loss. This study was guided by the question: How can art-based interventions reveal aspects ... -
Portrait Therapy and the Use of the “Third Hand” with Bereaved Adults
(2023)The experience of loss and bereavement is a normal and universal human experience. However, despite its prevalence, the psychology community’s understanding of it continues to change and evolve. This research sought add ... -
A Heuristic Exploration of Creating Response Art to Reduce Vicarious Grief
(2023)The following is a heuristic study that explored vicarious grief and response art through the lens of an art therapy intern. Vicarious grief involves feeling grief symptoms such as: sadness, guilt, anger, helplessness, ... -
Art Therapists at the Border: Identifying Professional Career Challenges and Service Access
(2023)This study examined the influences and possible challenges in communities that affect art therapist’s employment possibilities and career decisions. An interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach along with an ... -
Handling Crises on Inpatient Mental Health Units: How Music Therapy Influences the Process of De-escalation
(2022)Patients in psychiatric facilities with severe mental health symptoms may endanger the safety of themselves or others. Healthcare staff may utilize de-escalation techniques and crisis management skills to resolve the ... -
Bringing Light to Dark Spaces: Positivity and the Art Making Process for Women with Heart Failure
(2022)This arts-based, phenomenological study explored the lived experiencing of positive art making activities and the phenomenological processing of created art objects to promote psychological well-being for five women ... -
Music Therapy as Preventative Mental Healthcare with the Oceti Sakowin Oyate
(2022)Indigenous populations in the United States have an alarming rate of mental health concerns compared to other populations of similar ages in their geographical locations (Freeman et al. 2016; O’Keefe et al., 2018). Music ... -
Before and After Motherhood: An Arts-based Phenomenological Study
(2022)Experiences of motherhood are individual, yet also informed by the cultural context of the mother. Current feminist research seeks to understand and improve the conditions that surround women. This qualitative study uses ... -
The Impact of Sensory-Related Art Therapy Interventions on the Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2022)This is a quantitative research study that explores the impact of art therapy on the identified problem behavior(s) of children, ages four to six, who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The relationship between ... -
Partner Suicide: Processing Trauma, Grief, and Loss Using Response Art
(2022)Suicide loss survivors are 64% more likely to attempt suicide, and 80% more likely to quit their jobs or drop out of school compared to those who have suffered sudden loss to a death by a natural cause. Additionally, ... -
An Arts-Based Phenomenological Exploration of Active Duty Military Spouse Identities Through Abstract Self-Portrait Collages
(2022)This arts-based phenomenological study explored the personal identities of four active duty (AD) military spouses based on their perspectives and lived experiences in civilian and military communities. Co-researchers ... -
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 ... -
No ILL Will: Cross-Training to Smooth Interlibrary Loan Workflows
(2022)Interlibrary Loan departments are often run by solo operators, don’t have full coverage, or are facing staff shortages. Furthermore, ILL processes can be somewhat opaque to those employed in other library departments, ... -
Outpatient Appointments for Autistic Children: Music-Based Resources for Non-Music Therapists
(2022)Autistic children often exhibit hyperarousal and dysregulation when attending medical and therapy appointments (South & Rodgers, 2017). Researchers have shown that music therapy can be an effective modality in working ... -
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 ... -
Music Therapy during Preterm Infant Retinopathy of Prematurity Screenings
(2022)Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screenings are routine procedures that are consistently described as stressful for preterm infants; however, research on how to reduce infant distress during this procedure is limited. ... -
Reinventing Resource Sharing at Rooney Library
(2022)Resource sharing, or interlibrary loan (ILL), is an essential library service, a fact that has been reinforced by the ongoing pandemic. As user demands and expectations, as well as library collections, continue to evolve, ... -
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 ... -
Possible Therapeutic Effects of Using Art Materials on Potential Anxiety/Depression in Elementary Students in the Fifth to Sixth Grade Transition
(2022)This study surveyed an adolescent population around the time of elementary to middle school transition. The elementary to middle school transition period has the potential to influence adolescents for the rest of their ...