The Cancer Resource Center where I did my internship functions with the financial support of a local foundation and community donations. The center is open to the public. The terms of my practicum were that I spent ...

Therapy with children serves as a great healing tool because it allows the child to recreate what is in their mind onto paper. Children struggle with expressing themselves verbally and this paper will show the process of ...

A review of several aspects of interest pertaining to Art therapy including terms Art therapy, Metaphors, experiencing Resistance, Nature based therapy, Chemical addiction recovery, Co-Occurring Disorder, Mindfulness ...

Helping children foster therapeutic change requires tools that effectively address a child?s developmental needs. Through a review of child development theories and the neuroscience of brain development, it becomes clear ...

Europeans, from the time of their first arrival in the Americas, documented the New World inhabitants and their "strange" customs via drawings, etchings, and paintings. These invariably inaccurate and stereotypical images ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficacy of mindfulness based expressive arts therapies in treating trauma affected adults. I will explore the notion of mindfulness and its many benefits separately as well as ...

Through Art Therapy, sensory-focused activities can be used with low functioning developmentally disabled adults. Using a structured model to guide an Art Therapist when selecting and conducting activities that provide ...

This thesis includes reading the chosen artworks as a visual interpretation of the written mythological birth of Venus by the sea. Reading the selected painting as visual novels, the pictorial symbolism helps prove or ...

A large part of my journey through life has involved me in both addiction and art therapy. I have gone from believing art therapy doesn't work at all to devoting myself to it as a career. There have been many times I have ...