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Expressive Therapies Theses

Theses/Dissertations from 2025 2025

How Can Fiber Arts Help Alleviate the Symptoms of Psychosis?, Krysten M. Lyle

Dance/Movement Therapy as a Potential Complimentary Treatment for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: A Literature Review, Ashley H. Marsden

Use Cases for Art Therapy Intervention in Clinical Psychedelic Praxis, Kaitlin Maud

Metal as a Tool for Gender Liberation in Music Therapy: A Literature Review, Ashley B. McCarthy

Vocal Toning Increasing the Parent-Child Bond in Neonatal Care: A Proposed Method, Mikki McIntire

"La Vida Es Un Carnaval": An Exploration of Cuban Identity and Nostalgia through Dance/Movement Therapy - A Community Engagement Project, Maria Fernanda Mendez Mendoza

Practical Jokes: A Drama Therapy Process between Comedians, Therapists, and Those Affected by Grief/Loss on the Ongoing Development of Therapeutic Humor, Abby T. Michel

How Art Therapy and EMDR Help Asylum Seekers and Refugees Move Towards Healing Trauma: A Literature Review, Anna Mogilevsky

Going “Back to Kindergarten” To Create Connection, Reduce Loneliness, and Build Resilience: A Community Workshop, Norie A. Mozzone

Why Disability Justice Matters in Mental Health Care and How Drama Therapists Can Help Get It Right, Anish Nakahara

Communing with Lions: A Critical Literature Review Exploring Pan-Asian Lion Dance Traditions through the Lens of Expressive Arts Therapy, Sarah T. Ngo

Healing the Body Politic: Integrating Death Café and Expressive Arts Therapy Open Studio Processes to Create ‘Death Literate’ Civic Spaces of Support, Susan Oetgen

Hope-Centered Art Therapy Exploring the Emergence of Relational Narratives in Nurturing Resilience in Children, Niloofar Ojani

Using Symbolism and Jungian Art Therapy Techniques to Promote Empowerment in the Treatment of Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Program, Grace Anne Pancost

A Method for Developing Multicultural Musical Fluency: Reclaiming a Relationship with Traditional Ashkenazi Music, Rachael Penn

"With a Heavy Heart": A Literature Review Exploring the Embodiment of Grief and its Implications for Grief Processing, Mollie Pratt

The Role of the Jester: The Subversive Power of Humor and Performance in Challenging Misogyny, Sarah E. Price

Taking on a New Roll: Community-Based Therapeutic Tabletop Role-Playing with Elementary Schoolers, Danny Reinan

Altered Book-Making as Identity Reclamation in Women Diagnosed with Eating Disorders at a Residential Treatment Center, Emma Ricci

Using Natural Materials in Art Therapy to Address Accessibility and Well-Being in Low-Income Older Adults, Ahlyana J. Richardson

Dance/Movement Therapy Interventions That Can Address and Decrease Impacts of Developmental Prosopagnosia: A Literature Review, Caitlin Rivenbark

Couples in the Playspace: Community Engagement with Developmental Transformations, Amanda Roberts

Dance/Movement Therapy and Attachment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit- Critical Literature Review, Weronika Rozwadowska

Belonging to Self: Moments of Body-Oriented Expressive Arts Psychotherapy & Inpatient Trauma Recovery, Arielle N. Ruggeroli

Using Dabke to Embody Sumud: A Literature Review of Indigenous Palestinian Dance in Relation to Ongoing Trauma, Reema Rustom