BAAT Surveys
Survey of Newly Qualified Art Therapists
BAAT is doing its yearly survey of newly qualified Art Therapists. If you have qualified in 2007, 2008 or 2009, we would be very grateful if you could take a few moments to fill in the on line survey about how long it took you to get employment after qualifying and the type of work you are doing. This really helps us to make strategic plans for promoting art therapy to potential employers. Go to the survey >>
Looked after children (LAC) Questionnaire (NICE survey)
We would like to find out the scope of arts and play therapies with looked after children and young people. NICE are reviewing their guidelines for therapy for looked after children. This is a time for arts and play therapists to let NICE know of the extent of work in this field. If you have worked with a child in local authority care in the last 2 years please can you fill in this on-line questionnaire. You do not have to identify yourself but if you are willing to take part in a more detailed questionnaire at a later date then please add you contact details. Download questionnaire (.doc) >>
Thank you for your co-operation.
Joy Hasler on behalf of the Arts Therapy LAC group.
Survey of Arts Therapies users
The four Arts Therapies Professional Bodies (Art, Music, Drama and Dance Movement) are keen to receive direct feedback from people with mental health problems who have experienced one or more of the Arts Therapies or are currently engaged in these. They also want to hear from those who may have found it difficult or impossible to access Arts Therapies. They would value your views and comments. The survey will not take more than a few minutes to complete.
Click here to take part on-line >>
Alternatively you can download and print out a paper form and mail it in >>
If you are an Arts Therapist and want to publicise this survey in your work place, here is an A4 poster you can download and print out. Download poster (pdf) >>
The 2008 survey of Newly Qualified Art Therapists
The survey shows encouraging results. Survey report (pdf) >>
On-line survey of newly-qualified Art Therapists 2007
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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