Content Posted in 2026 | DigitalCommons@Lesley | Lesley's Scholarly and Creative Works

Skip to main content

Content Posted in 2026

20.01-07 Lesley University Audiovisual Materials, 1932-2013, Lesley University Archive

A Hermeneutic Exploration of Professional Place-Based Belonging Experienced by Faculty in COVID-19 Informed Undergraduate Formal Learning Places, Jennifer Ryley Welsh

All Together Now! Synchrony as a Pathway for Music Therapy to Improve the Social Strengths of Individuals Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Literature Review, Jason Scolnick

An Expressive Arts Therapy Literature Review: Spiritual Experiences and DSM-5 Assessment in BIPOC Communities, Amanda Paige Rodriguez

A Phenomenological Study of Elementary Educators’ Experiences Identifying and Responding to Student Asocial Evidence Associated with School Violence Risk, Karen Elizabeth McDavitt

Arts-Based Violence Prevention for Youth: A Literature Review, Amber Lynn Isaac

Art Therapy and a Strength-Based Approach for Working with Children with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges: A Qualitative, Arts-Based Study, James D. Wyld

Attachment Under Threat: Parental Cancer, Child Development, and Dance/Movement Therapy as an Embodied Intervention—A Literature Review, Victoria E. Groves

Becoming a Body-Centered Psychotherapist: Developing A Reflective Method for Navigating Dual Professional Identity in Dance/Movement Therapy Training, Emma Rose Barbosa

Becoming Restorative: An Exploration of Individual Journeys and the Professional Learning That Supports Them, Jessica Rae Madden-Fuoco

Between Cultures: An Expressive Arts Community Engagement Project on Identity, Belonging, and Cultural Transition Among International Students, Shilpa Ivaturi

Black Excellence by Design: A Critical Framework for Transforming K–12 Education, Darnell T. Williams

Body and Size Acceptance in Dance/Movement Therapy, Kathryn Pedersen

Bridging the Gap - Integrating Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) into Support Frameworks for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Literature Review, Anjelica R. Espinoza-Flores

Bringing Music to Life: An Autoethnographic Music Therapy Method for Performance Anxiety, Gabrielle Kwang-jiin Ger

Built for This: An Autoethonographic Study of a Journey Through Leadership Rooted in Reflection, Resilience, and Reinvention, Weslie Etienne

Burnout In Dancers & the use of Dance/Movement Therapy as an Intervention: A Literature Review, Delia Tan

But did you die? An exploration of how humor can influence grief and the grieving process: A Literature Review, Sophia Manzi

Co-Active Therapeutic Filmmaking: A Methodology Pilot Project, Blair Webber

Commonthought (2025), Commonthought Staff

Communication through Connection and Identity: Songwriting with People Living with Dementia, Sean Connolly

Conceptualizing Professional Identity Development in Art Therapy Supervision with Post-graduate Art Therapists Who Are Pre-licensed, Christine S. Atkinson

Contemporary Ceremony: Healing Circles & Support Groups for Black Women, almaz wilson

Cooking class, Department of Domestic Science, 1917-1918

Creating Safety in Trauma-Informed Care, Grace Alzamora

Cultivating Compassion to Support Stabilization: A Practice-Based Group Model for an Inpatient Psychiatric Trauma Unit, Sarah E. Condon

Dance/Movement Therapy as a Person-Centered Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Through Physical, Social, and Sensory Elements: A Literature Review, Margaret Carson Thatcher

Dance Movement Therapy enhances Experiential Master Play in Child Centered Play Therapy: Literature Review, Fallon M. Walsh

Dining room building on the upper campus, 1940s

Drama therapy core processes for emotion regulation, Lauren A. Anderson

Dropping Into The Expressive Art Therapy: A Community Engagement Arts Based Project, Sydney C. Smith and Meg Chang

Ecodramatherapy to Support Recovery from Religious and Spiritual Trauma, Ashton Eleazer

Edith Lesley Wolfard, 1928

Edith Lesley Wolfard and Gertrude Malloch, 1933

Educated Sons and Evolving Traditions: A Qualitative Exploration of Male Family Roles, Inheritance Customs and Cultural Identity in Matrilineal Meghalaya., Boby John

Elementary Residents and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Mathematics, Quayisha F. Clarke

Embodied Identity in Dementia: Art Therapy as a Pathway to Selfhood, Sarah E. Southwick

Empowerment Pedagogy: A Mixed Methods Grounded Theory Approach to Developing a Pedagogical Framework for Empowering Middle School Aged Students, Henry James Bryant

Enacting Leadership and Transforming the World: Hannah Arendt, The Private, The Public, and Transfigurations in Between, Xochitl Mendez

Enacting Tension: A Phenomenological, Art-based study of NICU Siblings’ Lived Experience through Engagement with Dramatic Reality, Rebecca A. Versaci

Evolving Art Therapy in Virtual Environments: Exploring Telehealth Art Therapy Within Gaming, Kathleen A. Wilber

Experimentation, Adaptability, and Ingenuity in the Community Art Studio, Louisa Mary Drab

Exploring Expressive Arts Journaling for Older Adults in a Psychiatric Hospital using Mindfulness, Self-compassion and Open Studio, Lesley Rodriguez

Exploring Identity Development in Adolescents Through a Series of Self-Portrait Making Using Art Therapy, Kayla Lincoln

Exploring Identity Through Clay: A Humanistic Art Therapy Case Study with a Blind Chinese Adoptee, Virginia Jade Leicht

Exploring Immigration-Related Trauma with Trauma-Informed, Culturally Relevant Creative Processes, Alexandra Gadway

Exploring Skill-Based Art Therapy Through Textile Arts for Adolescents, Phoebe Medeiros

Exploring the Potential for Meaning-Making in Expressive Art Therapies Interventions in Treatment of Complicated Grief for Gun Homicide Survivors: A Literature Review, Ash Landrein

Exploring the Use of Touch in Dance/Movement Therapy: A Literature Review, Alexis Pungitore

Feasibility of Staff Training in Facilitating Affirmative Moving with Unhoused LGBTQ+ Individuals, Sujin Ma

Finding Direction: Using Trauma Stewardship and Drama Therapy to Support Nurses in Hospital Settings, Julianne Kusmierczyk

From Anxiety to Resilience: A Case Study of Female-Identifying Middle School Students at a Math Summer Camp, Elizabeth Teixeira

From Body Positivity to Body Power: How Music Therapy and Body Liberation Intersect to Address Body Oppression in the Therapeutic Space–A Literature Review, Katherine M. Perkoski

From Regulation to Meaning-Making: An Integrative Literature Review of Sensory Integration and Drama Therapy in Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice, Kerry Richmond

From Skilled Labor Pipeline to College-Prep Track: A Study of Admissions, Access, and Intent in a Massachusetts Vocational High School, Jennifer Ferland

Girl seated on wishing well, 1940s

Graduating class of Kindergarten Normal Studies, 1917

Graduation at the Unitarian First Parish Church, 1940s

Grief Journeys: A Literature Review on Integrating Expressive Arts and Play in Grief Therapy, Joanna Marcus

Harness the Darkness! Blackout Poetry and Drama Therapy for Systemic Existential Dread: A Proposed Methodology, Kerry Sullivan

How Art Therapy Can Be Used to Support Children Experiencing Homelessness: A Literature Review, Lila N. Murray

How Can Art Therapy Intergenerational Groups Support Fostering Connections for Individuals with Memory Loss?, Clara Drew

How Can Dance Movement Therapy Help People with Autism Cope with Stigma? – A Community Engagement Project, Samantha B. Diamond

How Can Dramatic Play Address Masking in Autistic Adolescents?: A Literature Review, Victoria Sebastian

How Dance/Movement Therapy Can Cultivate Self-Compassion in Chinese Diaspora Adults: A Literature Review, Heng Hsiu Liu

Implementing a CoATT Inspired Process to Support Adolescents and Young Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Transition: Development of a Method, Andromeda Faber

Implementing Narrative Family Art Therapy to Address Trauma and Conflict Resolution, Haley Elizabeth Watson

Influence of the Discipline of Authentic Movement Practice on Interpersonal Relationships, Joy Ruben Welts

Leadership Regarding the Support and Implementation of Collaborative Teacher Teams to Advance District Equity Goals, Deborah Holman

Leading a School District During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Teresa M. Murphy PhD

Lesley Wishing Well, 1929

Literature Review: Exploration of dance as both a formidable method of research, and form of therapy in processing culturally traumatic events, and its potential intersections with what is socially understood as “civil, rights, movement”, Juanita Ramey

Memory Parties: Celebration as a Community Mental Health Intervention in Dementia Care, Alexis Ask

Moving as Mycelium: Dance/Movement Therapy with Nature and its Potential for Sustainability Transformations: A Literature Review, Abby Polk

Never Too Old to Play: Puppetry as a Therapeutic Intervention in Middle-to-Late Stage Dementia, Cat Potts

Nurtured Meaning: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Tree of Life in Contemporary Women's Art, Christina A. DeFilipp

Opening space for joy: Play as a pathway in dance/movement therapy with adults in addiction recovery, Brittany M. Walsh

Perfectly Messy, Right-ish, and Good Enough: A Conceptual Synthesis of Developmental Transformations (DvT) as a Therapeutic Approach to Perfectionism, Lauren O. Boyd

Person, Process, and Between: Art Therapy Through the Lens of Transformative Learning Theory, Lacy Silas

PHOTOVOICE AS A RESILIENCE TOOL FOR HELPING PROFESSIONALS IN COMPLEX TRAUMA WORK, Pamela Lie

Playfulness and Awe: How Ecodramatherapy Can Facilitate the Experience of Positive Emotional States to Reduce Perceived Stress, Corey Jennifer Maier

Playing into Confidence: A Literature Review, Zoë J. Crowe

Playing the Part Online: A Role-Based Telehealth Intervention Supporting Trauma Integration in Adults, Mary Schwabenland

Power Word Queer: Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Expressive Art Therapy for the Queer Community: A Literature Review, Aliza King

Practitioners’ Experiences of Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship-Based (DIR) Approach in their Professional Practice with Neurodivergent Clients: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Ekaterina Sidor

Queer Creativity in a State of Surveillance: Community Art-Making as Embodied Resistance, Rachel "Frankie" Uhrig

Reclaiming Identity, Vu Do

Reclaiming the Narrative: Integrating Narrative Therapy and Songwriting for Children and Adolescents Living Through Adverse Childhood Experiences, Emma Smith

Relationships Between Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders, their Guardians, and Expressive Arts Therapy: A Literature Review, Sarah K. Unkefer

Re-Painting Motherhood: A Community-Based Expressive Arts Project Exploring Motherhood’s Myths, Realities, and Hopes Through a Narrative Therapy Lens, Lauren Grignaffini-Morris

Returning to Play: Play-Centered Art Therapy with Parentified Adult Caregivers, Paola Andrea Mendez Carreno

Shattering the Glass: Playmaking as a Therapeutic Intervention for Siblings of Chronically Ill Children, to Counteract the ‘Glass Child’ Phenomenon: A Literature Review, Sarah Z. Ritter

Sing Without Even Light - How the Arts Inform and Enhance Learning, Creativity, Imagination, and Wellbeing in Elementary Classrooms in Kajiado, Kenya: Discovering Creative Confidence, Lindsay L. Stewart

Sociolooking: A Theory of Looking Together and Choreographing Looking Experiences, Avigail Shimshoni

Sociometry for Connection and Storytelling in an Adolescent Male Detention Center, Josh Chenard

SOMA: Exploring Touch as Performance and Performance as Therapy, Erica Pamson

Stirring the Senses: A Culinary Model of Neuroplastic Healing in Expressive Arts Therapy, Nell J. Benedict

Taking Center Stage: Centering the Caregivers of Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Their Support: A Literature Review, Jessica Dahl-Colaw

Taking off the Mask: Development of a Role Method for Late-Diagnosed Neurodivergent Women, Maria Moutzalias

Teacher Professional Development in Art Museums, Tamar Rosenfeld-Cohen

The Burnout Machine: Finding the Guide Between Burnout and Meaning Making Using IFS and Role Theory for Mental Health Professionals (An Integrative Literature Review), Jade Ahneman

The Characteristics of a University and Urban Elementary School Partnership Project: Interventions that Impact Teacher Self-Efficacy and their Emerging Social Network, Susan R. Cusack

The Combined Effects of Art Therapy and Yoga on Stress in Graduate Students, Wen-Fang (Tiffany) Tsai

The Efficacy of Emotional Reframing as an Intervention to Promote Adult Transformational Growth, Linda Rossetti

The Role Music Plays in Facilitating Transformation and Self-Actualization in Israeli Music Students Impacted by Trauma, Adina Feldman

The Yoga of Play: Regulation, Embodiment, and Transformation in Drama Therapy and Yogic Practice, Lauren Flynn

Thoughts From the Pit: Can Raving Change the World? A Literature Review Exploring Rave Culture as Expressive Arts Healing, Marissa Rose Renella

Through a Pedagogy of Play: Kindergarten Teachers' Professional Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Well-Being, Jennifer L. Berube

Transformative Experiences in a Community College Theatre Program: A Study of Students' Growth Through a Pedagogy of Caring, Karen J. Oster

Trauma Sensitivity in Rural Education: A Teacher-Centric Analysis Grounded in Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Karie L. Williams

Unveiling Embodied White Supremacy: Therapists’ Experiences and Its Imprint on Therapeutic Relationships in Dance/Movement Therapy, Melody E. Gamba

Using Zines to Explore Oppression and Musical Gatekeeping in Music Therapy, Kendall Joplin

Utilizing Dungeons and Dragons with Expressive Arts Therapy to Analyze Sense of Connection Socially and to the Self: A Literature Review and Autoethnography, Neve N. Johnson

What Impact Might the CoATT Model Have on Those Recovering from Spiritual Disconnect? A Community Engagement Project, Fiona A. Doyle

Where is Home: Finding Belonging in God through Expressive and Drama Therapy Processes among Chinese Diaspora International Students, Minmin Pan

Yes, We Can: Understanding the Experiences of Brown (Latino/x) and Black Male Students Success at Community Colleges, Carlos L. Maynard