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Item Art Therapy and Applied Improvisation: High Impact Learning Strategies to Enhance Communication and Professional Identity(Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2022) Misluk-Gervase, Eileen; Ansaldo, JimStudents who engage in high-impact learning initiatives such internships, capstone research projects, and collaborative activities report gains in personal development that include growth in self-confidence, increase in independent work and thought, and a sense of accomplishment. These are integral to professional identity and competency in graduate training of art therapists. The authors projected that students who participate in applied improvisation workshops would identify an impact on their personal and professional development through increased skill development and confidence. Program evaluation found applied improvisation and art therapy workshops for the enhancement of graduate art therapy students’ clinical skills to be successful in increasing students’ self-assessment of communication skills and enhancing a sense of professional identity and overall competency.Item Art Therapy Impact on Aging Adults’ Quality of Life: Leisure and Learning(T&F, 2022) Misluk, Eileen; Rush, Haley; Herron School of Art and DesignQuality of life (QoL) is influenced by physical and psychological health, but includes subjective qualities that are inherent in social and cognitive processes necessary for healthy aging and overall well-being. A quantitative study analyzed the effects of art therapy for 14 aging adults utilizing the Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life Scale (BBQ) at pre, mid, and post 32-week study. Regression analysis showed significant positive changes in two areas: Importance of Learning and Leisure. Participating in art therapy increased the importance of learning and leisure, that are influential factors in QoL for aging adults. This demonstrates that art therapy has the potential to support healthy aging.Item Art Therapy in Opiate Use Disorder: Moving Toward an Integrated Treatment Framework(2021-05) Sentir, Alena; Misluk, EileenDrug addiction is a major public health concern resulting in deleterious consequences to individuals and society. Yet, addiction is a recoverable disease with the right support. Although evidence-based treatments exist for opiate use disorder, many individuals remain treatment refractory and die from overdoses. These individuals often present to treatment with dual diagnosis and polysubstance use, which are conditions that increase client complexity and barriers to recovery. An integrative systematic literature review was conducted to examine how art therapy has been used in these populations and ways that it could be incorporated into current addiction neuroscience treatment. The culmination is a six-session proposal with the goal of increasing treatment retention in refractory populations. Through the framework of the Expressive Therapies Continuum and modern addiction neuroscience treatment, the proposal is theorized to integrate limbic to cortical functioning, stimulate motivation, increase empowerment, and support clients during recovery. Though the proposal gives special consideration to those with opiate use disorder in medication-assisted treatment, it inclusive of other substance use disorders and accounts for various client complexities, as well as being easily adaptable by an art therapist to different treatment settings.Item Career Development and Exploration in Art Therapy(2022) Welker, Taylor; Misluk, Eileen; McCullough, ShannonThis research explains and implements creating a proposal with art therapy and career counseling for high school systems while working with adolescents. Within the literature review, existing research has demonstrated that career counseling yields benefits in professional planning and satisfaction. The adolescence stage has many expected developmental tasks, including choosing a career about individual traits and strengths. Research also addresses influences relating to adolescent needs that may help or hinder career choices. To manage educational settings and conditions, the research discusses benefits and limitations. While research has provided understanding for career counseling, limited research combines both art therapy and career development. Art therapy research has highlighted many goals about self-awareness and empowering individuals to understand themselves. Comparisons of research on art therapy and career counseling provide evidence and information to create a program proposal for individual students. Career theories such as Holland’s Theory of Vocational Choice and Social Cognitive Career Theory go in-depth on clients' needs in this process. These theories also tie in three themes explored from existing art therapy literature, including identity, self-efficacy, and self-esteem.Item A Community Focus in Grief Groups: Children and Adolescents Experiencing Cancer Related Parental Loss(2021-05) Gore, Emile; Misluk, EileenApproximately 2.85 million children under 18 live with a parent affected by cancer in the United States and cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. These children are at risk for developmental and mental health related distress. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the ways group art therapy can be used to work through grief processes and build a sense of community in the group for children. It was hypothesized that a community focus and building community in a group art therapy setting would be an effective and beneficial way in teaching coping strategies for dealing with grief and loss for children that have lost one or more parents to cancer. A traditional literature review was conducted to review the impact community-based art therapy can have on children and adolescents who have lost one or more parents to cancer. Group art therapy was found to be an effective and beneficial treatment for working with children that are experiencing grief, though more research is needed to clearly define the influence and definitions of a focus on community. Finding ways to improve treatment for children’s grief processing can work to reduce present and future developmental and mental health risks.Item Easing Transition: The Journal as a Transitional Object for Adolescents in Emergency Shelter Care(2021-05) Dunn, Amanda; Misluk, EileenThe 437,283 children involved in the foster care system, specifically the adolescents in institutions like emergency shelter care, present specific needs including continuity, trauma-informed care, and positive relationships. The purpose of this integrative literature review was to explore how a journal could act as a transitional object (TO) to help meet the needs of adolescents in emergency shelter care. It was hypothesized that the use of a reflective visual journal will act as a TO and help meet the needs of this population. Resulting from this research is a proposal for making a journal for use as TO in a therapeutic workshop. Literature was reviewed through an integrative literature review, which used representative literature to form new perspectives on the topics. Resulting from this research is a proposal for making a journal for use as TO in a therapeutic workshop. From this research and workshop proposal, art therapy and journaling can be used to create TO that can help bring healing to and meet the needs of adolescents in emergency shelter care.Item Effect of Transracial Adoption on Racial Identity Development : A Phenomenological Arts-Based Self-Study(2024) O’Rear, Hannah; Misluk, Eileen; Neubaum, BrookeCurrent conceptualizations of the impacts of transracial adoption on racial identity development lack a centering of adoptees' perspectives and, furthermore, have yet to be explored through an arts-based approach. In this study, a phenomenological self-study approach was employed, utilizing art-based processes to explore the impacts of transracial adoption on racial development. The methodological structure included six weeks of self-study exploring relevant themes pulled from the literature review, including identity, adoption, cultural identity, and emerging adulthood. Weeks 1 to 4 explored each theme individually, while the last two weeks explored the intersection of all themes combined. Art making utilized 2D and 3D materials occurred twice a week for at least an hour and was analyzed to record sub-themes post-art making. This exploration found that this structure provided a place to artistically express complicated emotions surrounding the intersecting themes related to transracial adoption and facilitated the emergence of sub-themes to consider in further research. This designed self-study structure empowers the transracial adoptee's voice, providing an outlined method that other adoptees may utilize to deepen self-identity understanding. Moreover, this research informs the greater understanding of the impacts that transracial adoption has on adoptees.Item Foraged Materials in Art Therapy: An Arts-Based Experiential Study(2022) Slabach, Katie; Misluk, Eileen; Leeds, Chelsea; Rush, HaleyThis arts-based experiential study was established to study the specific therapeutic benefits of foraged materials when implemented into art therapy practice and identify material properties that may be more or less therapeutically effective for individual clients. Fourteen Likert rating scales were used to measure the properties of 34 foraged materials during eight artmaking sessions. Each session included a group of three to seven foraged materials and consisted of artmaking, the photographic documentation of artwork, material property rating on the Likert scales, and a narrative documentation of the entire session. After all the material properties were rated, the results were grouped according to the rank they received within each property rating scale and each property was assessed to determine how it would affect therapeutic efficacy with different populations. Recommendations for foraged material application in art therapy practice were offered. Overall, the study resulted in a set of scales and criteria for measuring foraged material properties and how they affect an individual, as well as guidelines for incorporating foraged materials into art therapy practice with respect to material properties and population needs. Among other benefits, the application of these results will offer an opportunity to create a stronger connection between the client and the therapeutic process and make art therapy more approachable to those who are resistant to working with conventional art materials.Item Identifying Curative Factors of Art Therapy Gallery Exhibition with Veterans: A Feminist Approach(2023) Neubaum, Brooke; Misluk, Eileen; Daugherty, LaurenArt therapy gallery exhibitions can address the mental health needs of veterans by empowering clients to share their experiences in art therapy settings on a public scale. This article uses qualitative methods to assess the benefits of an art therapy gallery exhibition with a group of female veteran participants. Post-exhibition interviews revealed themes of vulnerability, empowerment, connectedness, and validation. Publicly exhibiting artwork created in an art therapy setting proved to target clinical treatment needs often seen in veteran populations, including avoidance, disempowerment, self-stigmatizing beliefs, and isolation. The art therapy gallery exhibition also served as a social justice advocacy measure among a marginalized population.Item Indiana Bureau of Developmental Disability Services: Art Therapy Service Proposal for the BDDS Waiver(2017-10-23) Misluk-Gervase, Eileen; Granger, AmyThis document is a proposal to include art therapy in the Indiana Bureau of Developmental Disability Services waiver.