Art Therapy Practice Research Network Symposium
Venue: The Voluntary Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road,
London, N7 6PA
Convenors: Dr Chris Evans, Val Huet, Neil Springham
Friday 2nd October 2009
(Registration from 9.30 am) 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
This symposium will bring together different strands of research processes: in the morning, there will be presentations and discussions and the afternoon will be given over to a live peer review exercise which was very popular last time as it encouraged participants to start writing up case studies.
The recent inclusion of Arts Therapies in NICE guidelines on Schizophrenia has been a success for our professions, and there is much to learn from this in order to plan a research strategy. Dr Anna Maratos, Music Therapist, was a member of the NICE Guidelines Development Group and will present her views on what Arts Therapists can learn from this when planning their own research. Richard Whittaker, BAAT NICE Lead, will discuss his experience of gathering research evidence with other Arts Therapists and what he found useful this process.
Julie Brooker, Mark Braniff and Neil Springham will present 'Art Based End of Therapy Evaluation': they have been collaborating on forming a semi-structured interview for service users who are ending in art therapy. This has involved asking service users to select 2-3 of their most important images and recording their responses. These have then been packaged as podcasts both as evaluation tools and as a holding object for the service user themselves . They will discuss wider collaboration in the ATPRN.
Clive Parkinson, Director, Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, will present 'Reflections on a 3-year period of research and development in Arts and Health across the North West of England'. This will be a reflective account of a project in the North West of England, that explored the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on public health, taking national developments in the field into account.
Afternoon Live Peer Review Exercise: we aim to continue developing structures to get case studies published and as ever, peer review is at the heart of this. You will need to bring a case in mind, which we will be verbally working on via our peer review process.
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