Submissions from 2024
Understanding University Support for Suicide Bereavement and Bereaved Experiences: A Phenomenological Study, Kristin May Anderson, Neishamia B. Kayizzi, Brittany M. Lee, and Addalee K. Lyon
Integrating Collective Art Healing Practices into Contemporary Art Therapy, Taleene Armen, Nicole Aviel, EJ Liao, Brianna Mitjans, and Mandy Schuster
Cultivating Resilience in Adolescence: How Educational Environments Can Support Positive Youth Development During Identity Exploration, Heather I. Arndt, Genesis G. Larin, Gladis Abigail Munguia, Henry WIlliam Perez, and Dianne Preciado
Developing an eBook for First Responders: Exploring Arts-Based Interventions to Counter Burnout and Build Resilience, Taysia De Mesa, Baylor Duncan, Emmanuelle Evans, Ashley Herbinger, Hannah Kent, and Olivia Waldorf
Submissions from 2023
Building Social & Emotional Competence in Early Education Classrooms through Art Therapy, Amber Bliss, Melissa Halici, Nadia Herman, Camille Jessie, Madeline Madison, Melissa Washington Cross, Gaea Ray, and Melanie Zarrow
Traditional Cultural Artmaking Practices and Their Impact on Wellness, Rochelle Le Heux, Isabel Maddahi, Christina McCue, Lala Minassian, Martha Orozco, Devika Parmar, Vivian Rodriguez, Ruth Sze, and Shannon Thomas
Submissions from 2022
An Exploration of Art Therapy Services Offered to University Community Members During Transition, Julia Arias, Marissa Gonzales, Melissa Gonzalez, and Raegen Valdes
Exploring Arts Based Assessments for Relevancy in Art Therapy Research, Anjelica Cortés, Denielle Dominguez, Hayoung Lee, Naomi Nessim, and Ciera D. Olson
Contemporary Art Therapists: Study of Identity Within Artmaking, Chelsea Cota, Essayan Hart, Jamie Lombrana, Ivan Lopez, Liz Sizemore, and Susana Valdez
Developing Cultural Humility Using Art-Based Group Practices: A Collaborative Autoethnography, Dani De Herrera, Amanda Ramirez, Vivien Chia, Yu Liu, Vanessa Perez, and Victoria Mason
Submissions from 2021
Exploring the Efficacy of the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic’s Transition to Telehealth During COVID-19, Brittany Benjamin Amante, Alejandra Hernandez, Emily Lin, Amanda D. Martin, and Chao Zhao
Art-Making During a Global Pandemic: A Collaborative Autoethnography, Caitlin Carey, Parisa Frost, Jon Harguindeguy, Sarah Heller, Susan Lee, Christina Smith, and Eva Wang
Evaluating Standardized Assessments’ Ability to Capture Lived Experience of Cancer Patients and Survivors in Art Therapy Groups, Lara DeSanto, Sarah Han, and Cecilia Sánchez
Integrating Art Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy with Couples: A Conceptual Framework, Pauline A. Hall
An Art Therapist's Use of Art Making as Self Care in Pediatric Medicine, Emily Hargraves
Art-making and Wellbeing with Professional Artists During a Pandemic, Ilyse Lindsey, Schelsey Mahammadie-Sabet, and Nicole Rademacher
Submissions from 2020
An Evaluation of Comprehensive Projects Used in an Expressive Arts Workshop for Cancer Patients and Survivors, Beta S. Abdolahi
Cultural Humility Art-Based Training in the Helping Professions, Tara Al-Taan, Silvia Figueroa, Elizabeth Park, Beverly Pascua, Sachi Sosna, Serap Spaltro, and Allison Sweeney
Art Making to Inform Dialogue Across Spiritual Otherness in the Therapeutic Space, Caitlin Brosious, Emma Burgin, Andrea Dyer, and Maggie Knobbe
Evaluating the use of Narrative Therapy and Art Therapy among Women Who Have Experienced the Trauma of Domestic Violence, Cindy G. Bryant
The Use of Response Art and the Jungian Lens with One School-Aged Client, Nancy Denq
Effectiveness of Digital Response Art, Anya Kavanaugh
The Impacts of Loyola Marymount’s Summer Arts Workshop from the Perspective of the Adult Facilitators, Alexandria C. Loiseau
Hands to heART: Art Therapy and Voices of Cancer, Andrea Verano and Reina A. Bicciche
Submissions from 2019
Arts-Based Assessments and Projective Tests: An Interpretation of Self, Hannah Bailey, Noelle M. Giacona, and Angel Yang
Art as Meaning Making, Zoe Brockway, Tim Cunningham, Lucia Hye Yoon Joo, Jessica Pedroza, and Michelle Plotkin
The Sensory and Haptic Nature of Art Therapy Materials With Young Children Ages 0-5yrs Old of Complex Trauma, Sarah Duncan
Art Therapy Based Curriculums with Patients who Have or Had Cancer, Gabriela Espinoza
Qualitative Assessments used in Art Therapy Programs with Cancer Patients in a Medical Settings, Melissa Garcia
A Qualitative Analysis of Quantitative Assessments in Art Therapy Research with Patients with Cancer in a Medical Setting, Jill Levenberg
Creating the Therapeutic Environment: An Exploration of Art Therapy and Sexuality, Allison Marx and Lia Verzatt
A People's History of Art Therapy, Jessie McCurdy, Alexandria Richardson, and Kathaleena Thirtle
Spirituality, Mindfulness, and Art-Making in Mitigating Compassion Fatigue, Chau Nguyen
A Heuristic Exploration of White Lesbian Identity and Cultural Humility Through Art Therapy, Jennifer Phelps
Art Therapists' Work with Textiles, Sarah Potter
Effects of Art Therapy on Dissociation Related to a Veteran’s Experience with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Camacho Ronald
The Experience of Empathy Within Law Enforcement: An Art Exploration, BriAnne Timmons and Isabella Williams
Art Exploration of Countertransference and Empathy Towards Clients with Substance Abuse, Mailynn Tran
Submissions from 2018
An Exploration of Art Therapy and Attunement in Treating Families with DCFS Involvement, Amanda Gonzalez
Examining Relational Dynamics in Couples through an Art-Making Experience: A Replication Study, Kuangheng Hwang, Anna McNerney, Grace Palenik, and Kathleen Scheppe
Medical Art Therapy, Hope Kinney and Elizabeth Mueller
Art Therapy and Art History Theories, an Inquiry, Hannah L. Masters
Defining Community-Based Art Therapy: How Art Therapy in School Settings is Facilitating Community-Based Art Therapy, Monica R. Morales
Visualizing the Transition Out of High-Demand Religions, Summer Anne Myers
A Heuristic Exploration of the Intersections of Social Justice Theory, Community Art Therapy, and Cultural Humility, Beth Ordway
Camp Suzanne: A Qualitative Case Study on Attachment Theory and Longevity Considerations for an Art Therapeutic Program for Incarcerated Mothers and their Children, Noelle Palm and Kaylee Falcon
Using Art to Illuminate Therapists Experiences Diagnosing Children with Trauma, Sarah Tokimi Raphael
Art Therapy and Attachment Focused Treatment for Treating Children and Adolescents with Complex Trauma, Crystal Y. Solares
A Qualitative Study of Adult Perspectives of Loyola Marymount’s Summer Arts Workshop, Colleen Stafford
The Fear of Aging and the Self: A Heuristicaly Influenced Study, Leia R. Steingart
Submissions from 2017
Exploring the Long-Term Effects of Domestic Violence in Art Therapy Treatment, Ekaterini Angelis
Art Therapy and Neuroscience: A Model for Wellness, Ceccily J. Bednash
The Potential of Refugee Art to Inspire Empathy and Social Action, Zoé Cavnar-Lewandowski and Kelsey Gavin
Assessing Couples’ Relationships Through Art Making: A Replication Study, Courtney Combe and Spencer Harden
An Exploration of Trauma Markers in the Artwork of Serial Killers, Kiran M. Haynes
BAAAMM, Angela R. Miller, Alice Mary Thomas, Melissa Rivera, Brooke A. Pfaff, Ana Zuanic, and Monica Esquivel
A Review and Analysis of the MFT Clinical Art Therapy Program at Loyola Marymount University in Connection to a Clinical Case Study, Edith Matilda Moses
Exploring Resilience through the Observation of Group Art Therapy with Adolescents, Jamie N. Rios
Spirituality and Art Therapy: The Practice of Sufi Zikr, Sufi Meditation Tamarkoz and Art-Making From an Art Therapist’s Lens, Leyla Salmassian
Intercepting the Intergenerational Trauma of Mass Incarceration Through Art-Based Parent Programs, Ana Ruth Yela Castillo
Submissions from 2016
An Exploration Of Creative Arts Therapies In Pediatric Hospitals, Jacqueline Marie Carlson and Hilda Mercedes Galan
Exploring Sexuality Through Art Making, Martha C. Cowley, Jane Gallop, and Amanda Hale Feinberg
Family Art Assessment And Advocating For Children, Rachel L. Del Dosso
An Exploration of Existential Group Art Therapy for Substance Abuse Clients with a History of Trauma, Sung Liskin
Impacts Of An Artist Residency Program Informed By Social Action Art Therapy, Jessica Bui Lo
Exploration of the Process of an Altered Book Project With Women Cancer Survivors, Jillian E. Luz
Adolescent Mentors and the Latino Community, Arazeli L. Melendez
The Role of the Art Therapist: A Multi-Faceted Approach, Lauren E. Peña
Submissions from 2015
Adolescents, Social Media, and the Use of Self-Portraiture in Identity Formation, Sharee Nicole Allen
How Women Use Art and Art Therapy to Cope With Breast Cancer: A Systematic Exploration of Published Literature, Diana C. Barnes
An Arts Based Exploration of Immigration and Acculturation through the Lenses of First, Second and Third Generation Clinical Art Therapists, Elizabeth Barraza, Christina Sanchez, and Carmen Solis
Art Therapy and Evidence-Based Practice: An Exploration of Interactions, Michael G. Bauer, Chauney Peck, Aubrey Studebaker, and Naomi Yu
A Cross-Cultural Exploration Into Kinetic Family Drawings, Kathleen Deanna Baxter, Sharon Brooke Uy, and Stella Mina Yun
Expanding the Theoretical Lenses of Addiction Treatment Through Art Therapy Practice, Lily F. Braverman
A Heuristic Study of a Wounded Healer, Samantha McMullen
Exploring a Trainee's Response to Visiting Refugees in Jordan: A Bifocal Art Exploration, Daniela Marie Montañez
Art Therapy Considerations with Transgender Individuals, Bryan A. Schnebelt
The Role of Art Making in the Recovery from a Physical Disability due to Trauma, Erika Y. Schreefel
An Exploration of the Utilization of Art Materials in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Resolution of Attachment Trauma, Susan Lorena Snodgrass
Submissions from 2014
Latino Cultural Implications for Art Therapy: The Influence of Cultural Risk Factors and Academic Performance in High School, Piera Lynn Carfagno
Visualizing Levels of Family Satisfaction and Quality of Life in Families with an Autistic Member(s), Sarah Christolini and Camille Werstler
Art Making for the Art Therapist: A Study on Clinical Insight, Therapist Identity, Self-Care, and Countertransference, Saira Crawford, Guadalupe Solis, and Eliza Ann Pfister
Spirituality, Creativity, Identity, and Art Therapy, Theresa Crooks
Using Photography and Poetry in Group Therapy for People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: An Outcome Study, Sarah H. Eggers
Perceptions of Healing: Mind, Body and Spiritual Implications For Yoga Therapy and Art Therapy Students, Robin L. Kusilka
Art Therapy and Runaway Homeless Youth: An Exploration of Trauma and The Survival Response of "Flight", LeAnn K. Marschall
Self-Care: Exploring Well-Being Through Exercise, Yoga and Art, Erika J. Moreira and Wendy E. Rios
Post-Disaster Group Art Therapy Treatment for Children, Caitlin Frances Murphy
Integrating Restorative Justice Approaches in an Art Therapy Group, Jenna Walters
Fending off Vicarious Trauma Through Art Making, Laura M. Wong
Submissions from 2013
Stigma and Identity Formation in Young Adults with Chronic Mental Illness: An Exploration through Personal Narrative and Art-Making, Kerri Lynn Blackstone
Integrating Art Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to Treat Post Traumatic Stress, Holland Elizabeth Breed
Art in the Terror: An Analysis of Nightmare Imagery in Art Therapy, Emily Christine Brozyna
An Exploration of the Qualities and Features of Digital Art Media in Art Therapy, Nancy Sunjin Choe
Exploration of Cultural Differences and the Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Art between Ethnically Diverse Therapists and Clients, Jaimie N. Cloud
An Exploration of Contemplative Practice in the Life of the Art Therapist, Kristina Marie Ebsen
Latina Women and the Use of Art to Explore Issues of Immigration and Acculturation, Maria Elena Fuster
Attachment, Empathy, and Mentorship in a Community Arts Workshop with Adolescents, Amber Leigh Helmstetter and Allison Patch
A Transpersonal Approach to Self Reflective Art to Explore a Therapeutic Relationship with an Adolescent, Tara Joseph
