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Fall 2017
This research project is borne out of an invaluable art therapy practicum experience, during which I, the student therapist, encountered a client’s acute emotionality during therapy. As a result, I expanded my academic knowledge, clinical understanding, and sense of professional identity through...
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Fall 2017
How do couples know and decide to be married? This question is posed to three couples who made such a decision. The research reviews the development of romantic relationships and commitment, psychological theories and frameworks for couple counselling, and secular and theological understandings...
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Spring 2017
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...
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Interior Preparations: How a Theological Reflection on John 13:1-20 Shaped an Art Therapist's Practice of Preparation
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This thesis uses a heuristic methodology to explore the impact that a theological reflection had on my preparations for facilitating art therapy sessions. Through this research I engaged in a theological reflection on John 13 – the account of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet – as a pivotal...
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Fall 2016
At the heart of this thesis was one simple question, “What is the essence of my happiness?” This question was explored, with the guidance of the problem solving steps outlined in Heuristic research. I employed insights from my interests in classical psychology and existential phenomenology to...
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Spring 2016
The purpose of this research was to generate a theory regarding the development of identity in people with insecure attachment. In semistructured interviews, the researcher asked five co-researchers, three women and two men, about areas of identity. The questions covered career development,...
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Fall 2016
Much of the suffering today comes because people do not have a place to tell their story. C. J. Jung…This research recognizes the value of people narrating their awakening experiences. I used a process of narrative inquiry to discover the meaning of these stories, which disclose a sacred embodied...
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Fall 2016
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)...
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The Elephant in the Office: A Phenomenological Study of Spirituality-informed Student Therapists' Feelings of Incompetence in Early Therapeutic Encounters
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This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of spiritually-informed student therapists’ feelings of incompetence (FOI) in early therapeutic encounters. This aim was achieved by conducting two rounds of semi-structured interviews with three student therapists, who identify as...
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2016
Through arts-based research, interviews and facilitated discussions, this research explored how six volunteer participants were able to detect and integrate their counter-emotions; those emotions that represent a conflict between how we internally feel and experience an emotion, with our actual...