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Fall 2020

Smid, Pamela

The second commandment instructs to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:30–31, New International Version); this declaration implies loving the self is a necessary prerequisite of loving others. Self-care is behaviour designed to promote self-love and foster overall health and wellbeing. The...

Spring 2017

Foster, Laura David

This was a study about a client whom I worked with in my practicum experience in an inner-city church. It explored my thesis question: How was art therapy spiritually transformative for my client? The significance of this case is this outcome. Through the client’s art therapy process, she...

Fall 2019

Parker, Ara Rose

The principal objective of this dissertation, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Doctor of Ministry degree at St. Stephen’s College, was to explore the concept of spiritually informed art therapy as it was experienced by the author while studying, working, and teaching in the...

2024

Shodipo, Olutayo Stephen

Spirituality is an integral part of the lives of Adults with Disabilities (AWDs). Sadly, a very few literature have revealed the relationship between the spirituality of AWDs, their quality of life, and general wellbeing. This research focuses on the gaps that exist in knowledge about how AWDs...

Fall 2018

Ichwan, Juswantori

This study investigates the ways in which Indonesian gay male Christians in partnership (IGMCPs) make sense of their spiritual lives and develop their lived religion when they try to form and maintain a committed same-sex relationship in a church and a society that disapprove of that...

Fall 2016

Deborah Ann Kopeschny

In this phenomenological study I explored the lived experience of Zentangle practice and its link to mindfulness, spirituality and Art Therapy. This study was informed by personal experience of Zentangle as a means of creative self-expression and mindfulness meditation. Van Manen’s (2014)...