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Hands To Heart: Art Therapy And Voices Of Cancer, Andrea Verano, Reina A. Bicciche
Hands To Heart: Art Therapy And Voices Of Cancer, Andrea Verano, Reina A. Bicciche
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
As second-year graduate students from LMU’s Art Therapy program, we are excited to introduce the focus of our Master’s research project, a concept we coined as exhibition as intervention. Our goal is to create a space that brings awareness to the possibilities of exhibition to amplify the voice and increase empathy between artist and viewer. Originally, our vision was to hold the exhibition at Cedars-Sinai to supplement the 2020 Art Therapy Research Symposium. With COVID-19 placing restrictions on public gatherings, the exhibition had to transform from a physical experience to a virtual one. The catalog which began as our secondary …
Art Therapy Based Curriculums With Patients Who Have Or Had Cancer, Gabriela Espinoza
Art Therapy Based Curriculums With Patients Who Have Or Had Cancer, Gabriela Espinoza
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
Patients who have/had cancer are often left with emotional distress, as well as, anxiety, and depression amongst other effects. Art therapy based curriculums have been utilized with patients that have/had cancer with promising results of decreasing emotional distress and other effects. Five different art therapy based curriculums are explored through archival research approach. Through this approach, information is collected to explore five research questions that are presented to understand how these art therapy-based curriculums can help patients who have/had cancer. These research questions explore the type of interventions being utilized in the curriculum when the curriculum is being implemented in …