Thesis Abstracts
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Author |
Title |
|---|---|
| Couture, Rachel (2020) |
Enhancing Social Emotional Skills in Adolescents Using Drama Therapy and Improvisation |
| Csete, Lauren (2020) |
Role Theory in Drama Therapy with Young Adult Cancer Survivors: An Autoethnographic Perspective |
| Donovan, Brigid (2020) |
“One Death is a Tragedy...” An Exploration of Vicarious Trauma and PTSD in Response to Mass Shootings |
| Freeman, Kayla (2020) |
Us/Them: Using drama therapy to explore the intersubjective experiences of roles found within objective power dynamics |
| Hughes, Alessia (2020) |
When Coping Comes Home: A Proposed Drama Therapy Protocol to Illuminate the Impact of First Responders’ Experience of Dissociation in Intimate Relationships |
| Katz, Julie (2020) |
An Examination of Robert Landy’s Role Taxonomy Through a Feminist Lens |
| Li, Si-Yeung (2020) |
An Ethical Stance as a Hong Kong based Drama Therapist in Reponse to Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests: An Arts-based Research |
| Morin, Mikayla "Mak" (2020) |
‘Exposing’ the gap: Drama therapists’ understanding and interventions regarding obsessive-compulsive symptoms and disorders |
| Nir, Phoebe (2020) |
Why Is This Thesis Different From All Other Theses? An Exploration of Jewish Psychological Particularity and Implications for Drama Therapy |
| Witherspoon, Hollis (2019) |
Hold You Close and Try to Let You Go: Creating a Protocol for Processing Countertransference Through Art and Metaphor as an Emerging Drama Therapist |
| Smith, Alison (2019) | The Story I Own: Finding the Therapeutic Threads Between Rape, Trauma, and Performance |
| Shamir, Opher Yigal (2019) | Drama Therapy Change Processes For People With Severe And Persistent Mental Illness: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis |
| Oresne, Jess (2019) | ASM-ilation:An Arts-Based Research on Colonialism and White Supremacy in Therapeutic Theatre from the Perspective of a Filipino Assistant Stage Manager |
| Olsen, Spencer (2019) |
Through the Beaded Curtain: The Impact of Angels in America on Gay Men of the New Millennium |
| Martin, Alexia (2019) |
A Person of Closeness: A Personal Examination of the Therapeutic Relationship Between a Clinician of Color and Clients of Color |
| Li, Tracey (2019) |
Sustaining Hope in the Mess: Experiences of Compassion Fatigue in Creative Arts Therapists Working on Acute Care |
| Brouker, Agathe de (2019) |
Is it really time to play? A study of the use of drama therapy as a method of treatment in early psychological intervention after traumatic events of mass magnitude. |
| Girouard, Lauren (2019) |
I Want to See Me Dressed in Light: Drama Therapy as Catalyst to Coping in a Hospital’s Hematology/Oncology Unit |
| Funyak, Sarah (2019) |
Take a Chance, Roll the Dice: Possible Drama Therapy Applications of Role Method with Table Top Role-Playing Games in Therapy with Adolescents. |
| Boelter, Rachel (2019) |
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please A Case Study of Rasa as a Devisement Tool for Therapeutic Theatre with Adults Living with a Developmental or Intellectual Disability |
| Vogelstein, Atara (2018) |
Drama Therapy & Empathy: An Autoethnographic Study of Empathy in the Emerging Drama Therapist |
| Filson, Veronica (2018) | A Student, a Teacher, A Therapist: A Drama Therapists Search for Identity in School |
| Cornell, Kaitlynn (2018) | Moving Closer: Using Embodiment in Drama Therapy Self-Supervision to Process Somatic Countertransference |
| Carleton, Sean (2018) | Whom am I: A Case Study on the use of the R-RAP in clinical supervision for the development of a clinical identity |
| Potel, Laura (2018) | Dramatic Reality Gets Kinky: Applying Drama Therapy Theory to BDSM |
| Stevens, Adam (2018) | Know Your Role: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Black American Race Roles in Drama Therapy |
| Dobner-Pereira, Julia (2017) | Subversive Therapy: Using Queer Theory, Role Theory and Developmental Transformations Theory to Examine and Inform Therapeutic Process on a Forensic Psychiatric Unit |
| Roohan, Mary Kate (2017) | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Drama Therapy: An Action-Based, Integrated Approach to Treatment |
| Schoenfeld, Roxy (2017) | Deconstructing a Painful Reality Through Play: The Case of The Game Show Show |
| Minerson, Mallory (2016) | Musica Humana: A Therapeutic Musical Theatre Performance Thesis – The Somatic Journey from Dissociation to Integration |
| Burch, Darci (2015) | The Space Between Us All: The Performance of Dissociation in the Drama Therapy Relationship |
| DeAngelis, Jon (2015) | Director Says to the Therapist…: Dialoguing a Therapeutic Theatre Performance Through Multiple Roles |
| Hilt, Lisa (2015) | I Don’t Feel Naked: Utilizing Drama Therapy Supervision to Explore the Influence of Client Clothing on Countertransference |
| Jen, Wanning (2015) | Role profiles for Taiwanese students |
| Lee, Katherine (2015) | Drama Therapy and Attachment Theory in Dialogue: The Countertransferential Experience of Surrogacy in the Treatment Space |
| Lee Soy, Natardia (2015) | Illuminating Resistance in Adolescent Girls through a Drama Therapy Performance |
| Perryman, Ashley (2015) | Like a Virgin: A Drama Therapy Exploration of the Role of Virgin and its Subtypes |
| Wade, Cameron (2015) | From Whence I Came: Performing Change in an Addicted Family System |
| Brathwaite, Karline (2014) | ‘Come leh we play mas!: An Exploration of Drama Therapy and TrinYesdian Carnival |
| Clay, Ida (2104) | New Perspective: Drama Therapy and the Stages of Change Model in Recovery from Addictions |
| Como, Amber (2014) | Theatre as Therapy: An Exploration of the Liminal Space between Character and Actor/Client |
| Dixon, H. Brooke (2014) | Revealing the Invisible Healers: How Therapeutic Theatre Could Impact Direct Support Professionals |
| Finder, Allison (2014) | The Long Goodbye of Acute Care: Exploring the Significance of Closure in the Practice of Drama Therapy |
| Guerrieri, Alexandra Baer (2014) | Reflections on Clients with Schizophrenia: A Personal Study of Countertransference for the Drama Therapist |
| Levanas, Danielle (2014) | The Institutionalized Body: An Investigation into the Use of Drama Therapy on a Forensic Psychiatric Unit |
| Machlowitz, Sheryl (2014) | Drama Therapy: Using Role/Method to Illuminate the Non-disabled Sibling |
| Porst, Anne (2014) | Working Through The Role of The Angry Person: A Pragmatic Drama Therapy Case Study |
| Schwartz, Lisagail (2013) | The Lived Experience of Witnessing Therapeutic Theatre |
| Vicich, Alexandra Devin (2013) | Therapeutic Change for Women in Collective Performance |
| Wu, Yi-Chieh (2011) | Under the Mask: Using Performance to Explore the Concept of Self through Drama Therapy |
| Segall, Jeremy (2010) | Celebrity Ego Incognito: The Role of Self as Other in Drama Therapy |
| Dipasquale, Maryanne (2009) | Our Remedies Oft In Ourselves Do Lie or The Use of Group Drama Therapy with Conduct-Disordered Adolescent Males in a Juvenile Correction Facility |
| Ellaby, Donna (2005) | Derek and the Healers: Three Approaches to Drama Therapy |
| Beauregard, Mark Allen (2004) | Drama Therapy in the Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Gender Identity Disorder |
| Haen, Craig, M. (1999) | Recasting the Hero: A Drama Therapy Perspective on Male Gender Roles |
| Long, Kristin (1998) | Drama Therapy with Deaf Adults with Chronic Mental Illness: A Hearing Therapist’s Perspective |
| Lavner, Sara (1992) | The Therapeutic Effects of Humor in Drama Therapy |
| Doner Tudanger, Gaye (1991) | Incorporating the Role of the Bad Girl Into the Role Repertory |
| Danish, Barbara L. (1987) | Catharsis in Drama Therapy: Defining and Recognizing Therapeutic Change |
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