BAAT Surveys
Non-statutory pay & conditions survey
Details of survey currently underway and link to survey >>
On-line survey of newly-qualified Art Therapists
The results of the first on-line survey of newly-qualified Art Therapists' employment profile are now available. 61 forms were returned, and the results are encouraging. It is important to note that the respondents were all BAAT members, and that this seems to support our impression that newly qualified Art Therapists do better in gaining employment if they stay within BAAT and its networks. The average of unemployed members is higher for people who qualified in 2007 than those who did in 2005, and it takes an average of under 6 months to get work. We will repeat this survey each year to develop an accurate profile of employment trend for Art Therapists.
Results of the survey (PowerPoint)
Arts Therapies within Adult Mental Health Service
The results of the first pilot survey of Arts Therapies within Adult Mental Health Service are now available. The questionnaire was devised in collaboration with the Arts Therapies Professional Bodies, and over 200 service users took part in it. The results are very positive, and can be used in any documents for commissioners, managers, etc. We will be analyzing the verbal feedback that clients gave us on the forms, and publishing this in the near future (where their permission has been granted).
The graphs on page 4 show: Helpfulness / Time in therapy and Importance/ Time in therapy. This rated the helpfulness of the Arts Therapies and the Importance of the Arts Media for the clients. We decided to show this in separate bands of length of time in therapy, as we thought that these questions would be answered differently depending on whether someone had just started to engage or was a longer-term client.
We will now refine the questionnaire and launch this nationally in the autumn. We will then continue the process of capturing our clients' voices and their views of Arts Therapies by developing similar questionnaires for Children, Adolescents and families, People with Learning Difficulties, etc. We hope that this will give Arts Therapists some data to represent themselves to commissioners and managers.
Graphical results (pdf)
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