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Expressive Therapies Theses

Theses/Dissertations from 2026 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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