Burke's approach in art therapy is eclectic: humanistic, existential, Jungian, and Rogerian. She employs a maximum variation sampling as the basis for her qualitative, phenomenological research. She includes case studies describing from eight to ten individual art therapy sessions with each of six chemically dependent adolescents from widely varying backgrounds. These are illustrated by the art work. the one hundred original illustrations created by the teenage clients add much to the value of the study.

Consists of a grant proposal for introducing an art therapy program to provide art therapy services to chemically dependent adolescents in a residential setting.