Introduction to Art Therapy Research

Thoroughly updated with references to newly published research and engaging first-person reflections from art therapist researchers working throughout the world, this book places art therapy research within a socially complex world of compelling questions and emerging trends, while guiding readers through basic research design.

List of contents

Introduction to Art Therapy Research
PART I OVERVIEW OF ART THERAPY RESEARCH
1. Art Therapy Research Ideas, Tools, and Steps in the Process
2. The Landscape of Art Therapy Research: Worldview, Paradigms, and Tools of the Discipline
PART II ART THERAPY RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
3. Quantitative Strategies for Art Therapy Research
4. Generating Art Therapy's Evidence Base
5. Investigating the Field with Qualitative Research
6. Researching the Phenomena of Lived Experience
7. Transformative-Critical Research: Practice-Changing, Participatory, and Anti-Oppressive
8. Art-Based Research in Art Therapy
PART III CONDUCTING ART THERAPY RESEARCH
9. Before You Begin: Research Ethics and Oversight
10. Models and Critique of Good Research
11. Writing, Reporting, and Disseminating Your Research

About the author

Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, is a Professor Emerit and founding Director of Graduate and Doctoral Art Therapy at Mount Mary University (USA) as well as a past president of the American Art Therapy Association and international research consultant.

Summary

Thoroughly updated with references to newly published research and engaging first-person reflections from art therapist researchers working throughout the world, this book places art therapy research within a socially complex world of compelling questions and emerging trends, while guiding readers through basic research design.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Kapitan, Lynn (Mount Mary College Kapitan, Kapitan Lynn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032650593
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3265059-3
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, PSYCHOLOGY / Education, Training & Supervision