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Introduction
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Research
Lynn Kapitan
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Chapter Summary 91
References 92
Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, is founder and professor of the Graduate Art
Therapy program and chair of the Arts & Design Division at Mount Mary College,
Milwaukee, WI. She is the executive editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American
Art Therapy Association, the leading scholarly research journal in art therapy for
which she has served continuously for the past 18 years as a peer reviewer, advi-
sor, editor, and publisher. An alumna of the Union Institute and University, she was
inducted into the prestigious Circle of Scholars for excellence in research. She is
a past president of the American Art Therapy Association and currently practices
community-based, cross-cultural art therapy in consultation with non-governmental
organizations in Central and South America. She has taught graduate art therapy
research since 1991 and has published and presented nationally and internationally
on the subjects of social action in art therapy, multicultural and professional issues,
creativity development in toxic work environments, strategic policy development,
and leadership.
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Acknowledgments
This text was created from 18 years of conversations with the graduate art ther-
apy students enrolled in my summer research course at Mount Mary College in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The work would not have been possible without their con-
tributions of passionate questioning, hunting and gathering, and creating in art and
words. I deeply appreciate my faculty colleagues Patty Rass, Melody Todd, Karen
McCormick, Bruce Moon, Susan Loesl, Chris Belkofer, and Michele Burnie who
do so much excellent teaching and research advising to encourage excellence in our
students. Among the many art therapists who have supported the need for research
in the field, I wish to thank Frances Kaplan, Shaun McNiff, Randy Vick, Susan
Spaniol, Harriet Wadeson, Vija Lusebrink, and the members of the Editorial Board
of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association who model such
care in their scholarly critiques of the research writings in the field. Special thanks
go to Cathy Malchiodi, who encouraged me with humor, friendship, and emotional
support throughout the many months of bringing this text to publication, and to my
colleague Holly Feen-Calligan, for her dedication and abiding friendship. Thanks
go to Alex Kapitan for her editorial skills and keen insight, and to Chelsea Kapitan-
Daniel for her loving patience. Finally, thank you, dear soul mate Eddee Daniel, for
loving me through the years and through all the crazy distractions of my profes-
sional life.
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Introduction to Art
Therapy Research
Research:
—scholarly or scientific
investigation or inquiry.
—to study thoroughly. From
Old French: To seek out, to
search again and again.
Inquiry:
—the act of inquiring, that
is, to put to a question, to
look into or investigate.
—a close examination of
some matter in a quest for
information or truth.
Quest:
—the act or instance of seeking
or pursing something; a search.
—from Latin: to seek,
to search for game.
Hunt:
—to pursue; to seek out, search for.
—to conduct a diligent
search, to seek.
What really matters? What do art therapists care about and want to see realized, beyond
all else, as their enduring work in this world? Research is a creative act of searching
for the knowledge that matters to artists making art, art therapists helping clients, and
student-practitioners finding their way toward mastery in their chosen field. The suc-
cessful outcome of the search is a kernel of value with transformational power: more
effective practices grounded on more precise knowledge, deeper understanding of the
impact of events or experiences on people’s lives, or new facts and awareness that build
a case for art therapy.
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RESEARCH AS A CREATIVE
ARCHETYPAL PROCESS
Research is a creative process. It begins with an act of creatively imagining how one
might go about discovering something new, or of verifying something taken to be true.
According to Leedy (1997, p. 5), research has eight distinct characteristics:
These principles differentiate research from other scholarly and creative activi-
ties. For example, research is not looking up facts in the library or on the Internet and
reporting on them; a researcher must interpret those facts in some way to illuminate
their meaningful relationship to a problem. Research is not simple reflection on a
question; it usually requires an actual plan. Quality research is constructed with care
in how the researcher frames the problem, collects useful data about it, and accounts
for the results. But nothing in this definition excludes creative activity from the con-
duct of research. Art therapy offers unique perspectives on research because of the
way art therapists think about and approach their creative work in the context of a
helping profession.
A contemporary challenge for art therapists has been to find paths of inquiry that
reflect their core values and allow them to see and to act upon the therapeutic enterprise
with both an artist’s and scientist’s ways of knowing. Braud and Anderson (1998) offered
three major motivations for conducting research that art therapists might consider. In
the first category, research is approached as a series of problems to be solved in order
to produce predictable outcomes. The second motivation, which embraces an attitude
of curiosity and wonder, is simply to understand the world. Research is a puzzle that,
when sufficient pieces are fitted together, reveals a larger picture to be apprehended.
The third motivation also is in service of wonder, but it is the wonder of surprise and
discovery. Research is less like a problem or puzzle to solve and more like a work of art
to be appreciated. Though not equally appropriate for every research question, all three
of these motivations are valid and can co-exist in art therapy research.
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Another helpful metaphor for the creative path of inquiry is to imagine research as
a contemporary form of the hunting and gathering archetype (Kapitan, 1998). Our brief
era lived as modern humans has not eliminated instinctual patterns inherited from our
ancestors, the hunter-gatherers. The hunt is a search for knowledge rooted in a human
being’s primal relationship with the world. For art therapists it offers a vivid archetype
that characterizes much research. When art therapists begin to search for their own
instinctual responses to the challenges of practice, they reach naturally for the dis-
ciplines, tools, methods, and thought processes of art as well as traditional scientific
inquiry. They can engage in research as an extension of an archetypal creative process.
Both hunting and research constitute a dynamic interaction between individuals and
their surroundings; science and artmaking offer an identical interchange. Knowledge in
the hunting-gathering tradition has to do with how to act, what to hold on to, and what is
important to pay attention to in the face of life’s demands (Ortega y Gassett, 1943/1985).
Artists and scientists, therapists and researchers, and ancient hunter-gatherers have
always participated in this deeply human quest.
1960s: The first journal in art therapy, Bulletin of Art Therapy, was published in
1968 and included an account of art therapy research activities. Re-named the American
Journal of Art Therapy, it chronicled diverse work in art therapy and encouraged peer-
reviewed publication by art therapists (Knapp, 1992).
1970s: Graduate students throughout the 1970s learned art therapy by synthesiz-
ing mid-20th century psychological theory and the art studio knowledge they brought
to graduate school. There was little published art therapy literature and, with a few
exceptions, the texts that existed in the United States were only newly available (see
Anderson, 1978; Betensky, 1973; Keyes, 1974; Kramer, 1971; Kwiatkowska, 1978;
Naumburg, 1966, 1973; Rhyne, 1973; Robbins & Sibley, 1976; Rubin, 1977; Ulman &
Dachinger, 1975). The initiation of The Arts in Psychotherapy in 1973 created the first
international venue for art therapy research publication. Rhyne’s survey of art therapy
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research found, however, that two-thirds of all studies being published in the United
States and abroad were conducted by non-art therapists (Knapp, 1992).
1980s: The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) began publishing Art
Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association in 1983. A growing number
of research reports were becoming available to the wider field. But few art therapy gradu-
ate programs included a formal research course; the prevailing view at the time was that
graduate education primarily served to educate practitioners and that research was best
left to doctoral students. Absent a common language, art therapists worked solely from
the traditional research methodology of behavioral science. Qualitative research was
unknown outside the social sciences and was devalued as not actual research. At the end
of the decade, a dialogue between Maxine Junge and Marcia Rosal (1989) articulated the
prevailing attitudes and challenges of developing art therapy-specific methodology.
1990s: In the 15-year period from 1980 to 1995 art therapy literature greatly expanded
in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and a recognized body of art therapy
knowledge started to coalesce. To fill a need for information on research, A Guide to
Conducting Art Therapy Research was published by the AATA in 1992. By 1995, a
greater methodological variety of studies started showing up in Art Therapy. Because of
a pressing need for an empirical body of knowledge that would advance the profession,
however, the validity of all but experimental studies continued to be questioned. Support
for quality standards and greater diversity in research methods to address the needs of
practitioners emerged in national debates on education and practice standards.
At the end of the 1990s, Art Therapy published two groundbreaking issues dedi-
cated to art therapy research (Malchiodi, 1998a). Shaun McNiff published Art-Based
Research (1998a), the first text devoted entirely to art-based inquiry in art therapy.
McNiff felt that there was a lingering dependence upon other disciplines instead of
research that emerged from art therapy itself. Two years later, Frances Kaplan (2000)
contributed a second book-length treatment of the topic of research and articulated how
scientific approaches support an art-based theory of art therapy.
2000s: Recognizing the power of research to advance public awareness, the AATA
established a task force to update the research literature of the field (Vick, 2001). The
work of the task force was furthered when the groundwork was laid for the first national
clinical outcomes study, launched in 2005 (Kapitan, 2003b, 2005). In the United
Kingdom, with Art Therapy, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice, Gilroy (2006)
documented the growing necessity of research to validate art therapy practices within
the dictates of the British health care system.
When viewed in the context of a relatively young, evolving profession, art therapy’s
recent shift toward defining a research base is not unusual. Thirty years ago, the first
generation of art therapists were the leading voices in the field and—as also happened
in psychology, professional counseling, and social work—theory was built on the found-
ers’ own practices. This pattern was repeated as art therapy emerged and migrated to
diverse areas of the world. “Schools of thought” became organized and established in
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graduate schools and within related disciplines by the various pioneers of art therapy.
Translating these innovations into broader art therapy theories and practices was not
possible without a critical mass of practitioners collaborating with one another over
time and beyond their original training. As art therapy became an established academic
discipline, a second generation initiated this broader dialogue. Commitment to peer
reviewed research has generated common knowledge and evidence-based constructs for
practice. When elaborated within diverse cultural contexts and tested through empirical
research, these constructs finally will make it possible to form “approaches that emerge
from art therapy itself” (McNiff, 1998b, p. x).
Because research is dynamic, art therapy will continue to evolve. It is constantly reborn
in the fertile soil of shared understandings that transcend individualistic conceptions of
practice. As the figure in the figure-ground relationship with the profession of art therapy,
research has an impact on the evolution of ideas and practices that form the whole. Each
new contribution offers art therapists a critique of “received wisdom” in a newly changed
context. Yet these new understandings exist only because we are standing on the invisible
shoulders of those who came before and who helped create our new vantage points.
Our research questions come out of our worldview of what there is to be seen, and
we have learned that certain ways of thinking about things makes them visible. The
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researcher is not a wholly objective scientific being looking through a microscope but,
by her or his human choice to ask a question to focus on a particular phenomenon,
intervenes in the system and creates planned and unplanned change. (p. 78)
What we see depends upon what and how we choose to look at it. The reality
we believe we have “discovered” is more accurately a construction. This constructed
context is grounded in a particular historical time and social history, language, and
culture—all of which provide certain frameworks or lenses for apprehending reality.
With postmodernism, research shifted from solely external or behavioral perspectives
to consideration of the internal and interactive perspectives of subject and researcher
as well. Postmodernism asserts that reality cannot be separated into object and sub-
ject. Human beings cannot step outside their species-specific perceptions and view
reality from the place of the object. Thus, because we are all subjects, what we take
to be true can only emerge from our relationships of interaction with other subjects
and objects.
This understanding sits well with many art therapists who distrust the reductive
process of traditional science because of an artistic bias that makes reality “more real”
when colored with aesthetic, subjective experiences. Junge and Linesch (1992) con-
cluded that the processes of art and art therapy did not fit easily with scientific research.
Wadeson (1992) observed, “such [creative] work is of a very different nature from the
exacting methodological considerations of research design and implementation” (p.
1). McNiff (1998a, 1998b) decried “scientism” in art therapy, which he defined as the
erroneous application of scientific methods to artistic truths. A distrust of how science
could address the complexities of art therapy theory and practices, on the other hand,
has contributed to “science neglect” (Kaplan, 2000). In addition to postmodernism that
underscores the relativity of knowledge, Gantt (1998) identified gender bias, the popu-
larity of pseudoscience, and the perception of science as a destructive enterprise, as all
contributing to the field’s ambivalence toward scientific research.
Interestingly, these “science versus art” observations in art therapy parallel historic
developments in the social sciences in the 1980s and 1990s when proponents of qualita-
tive research were struggling for recognition. Heated debates pitted traditional scientific
research (popularly known as “quantitative”) against new paradigm research (“qualita-
tive”) and centered around the polarized imagery described below:
QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE
Taken for granted Alternative, “other”
Establishment Establishment protesters
Regular army Resistance
Big guns Reconnaissance
Male Female
Hard, firm, solid, real data Soft, fuzzy, weak data
Dry, unintelligible, meaningless data Thick, deep, grounded data
Control the variables; avoid dirty data Immerse in data; avoid drowning
Not really truth Not really science
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Kaiser, St. John, and Ball, in their 2006 survey of art therapy research education,
expressed surprise that most art therapy graduate programs had a preference for quali-
tative methods; however, the images above suggest where the iconoclastic bias of art
therapists may be aligned. Art therapy has had its own historic, polarized debates on the
importance or place of art versus science, therapist versus artist, products or outcomes
versus processes, and philosophy versus pragmatism. It makes it difficult to sort out art
therapy research, I believe, because of a tendency to emphasize the binary poles of what
is essentially an interdisciplinary field. Fortunately, the classic qualitative–quantitative
debate of the social sciences has largely been resolved and there now is broad recogni-
tion that diverse approaches are needed and credible (Patton, 2002). In art therapy, the
discourse has shifted toward finding a balance between scientific and artistic thinking,
and beyond polarized ideas of theory and practice. By matching methods with research
purposes and questions, many avenues of understanding may be honored (Carolan,
2001; Gantt, 1998; Kapitan, 1998; McNiff, 1998b; Wadeson, 1992). Carolan concluded,
“Art, imagery and metaphor can serve as the primary means of integrating [all] our
approaches” (2001, p. 191).
ORGANIZATIONAL PREMISES
AND GOALS OF THE TEXT
My goal in creating this text was to provide an informative and useful guide for art ther-
apists who want to understand and evaluate art therapy research, and who are motivated
to carry out their own studies. As a pragmatic text, it is grounded in art therapy research
literature and surrounding contexts, providing guidance to students and practitioners
in research design via a broad survey of appropriate questions, methods, and ethical
values. The archetype of the “hunt” is threaded throughout to spark the imaginations
of art therapists and to help them access the different artistic and scientific logistics of
research design.
Because art therapy is an interdisciplinary field—born of art and social science, the
studio and the clinic—it is appropriate for art therapists to draw from other disciplines
in the conduct of research. A research tradition takes many years and many, many
researchers to build. Art therapy is a relatively small field compared to other social,
behavioral, biological, and psychological fields that have many more resources devoted
to research. Art therapists would be smart to use such knowledge for their own pur-
poses. I believe that the creative synthesis resulting from the effort will shape a research
tradition that is appropriate and natural to art therapy.
Art therapy research is not born in a vacuum and neither was this text. There has
long been a need for an up-to-date research manual; the complexities of creating one
text from many voices is daunting. I envisioned this project as a logical extension of
the past efforts of art therapy researchers, educators, and leaders in the field who made
significant contributions to the dialogue on art therapy research. Most notably, their
work can be found in the 1992 Guide to Conducting Art Therapy Research edited by
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Harriet Wadeson, articles in Art Therapy that were authored by members of the AATA
Research Task Force, and published accounts that serve as exemplars of art therapy
research. A selection of these has been included in this text to preserve their expertise
and to provide useful resources for the reader.
My own role first is to serve you, the reader, as your friendly “tour guide.”
Having taught art therapy research to graduate students since 1991, I have been
hungry for a useful text that would help my students learn and think about research
in their own language of art therapy that resonates with their artistic worldview
and clinical experiences. In Part I, I present an overview of the basic tools and
practical steps involved in the design and implementation of an art therapy research
study, and areas of inquiry that hold particular interest for art therapists. Part II
describes quantitative and qualitative models through the “lens” of an art therapist
that illustrates their inherent logic as congruent with art therapy practice. In Part
III, the reader will be guided by the “how-to” of research: how to write an effec-
tive research proposal, how to meet standards of ethical conduct in carrying out the
study, how to evaluate and recognize good research, and how to report results and
publish your work.
My other role for readers of this text is to offer my perspective as the executive
editor of Art Therapy, one of the leading journals in the profession. Over the 18 years
that I have served nearly continuously in the various roles of peer reviewer, editor,
and publisher, I have had the privilege to evaluate hundreds of research reports and
to work closely with art therapists who have accepted the challenges of contributing
their research to the foundational knowledge of the field. I offer insights gleaned
from this experience with the hope that art therapists will use them well in research
of their own.
One of my duties as the senior editor is to read all of the manuscripts submitted
to Art Therapy. Several years’ worth of exposure to research created by art therapists
and a volume of feedback from the reviewers that evaluate the studies’ strengths have
shaped my perspective and underscored particular areas of need. To organize some of
the premises of this text, I put together a “wish list” for art therapy research that I hope
will inspire readers. Here is my “Top Ten list”:
10. End the old debate: To paraphrase Habermas cited earlier, the philosophical
debate on the need for art therapy research is dominant but dead. Art therapy would
be well served by embracing the middle ground and abandoning insistence on any one
paradigm as more important or more appropriate for the field. Qualitative research is
not inherently more creative than quantitative research. Quantitative research is not
inherently reductive. Art therapists need to learn both paradigms in order to effectively
address the questions that matter to them. Art-based methods can help bridge the dif-
ferent logic of scientific research and artistic inquiry. In this text, both the overview in
Part I and the specific methods chapters in Part II will lay the groundwork for moving
the field beyond these old debates.
9. No more fear of research: Twenty years of guiding research has taught me that
art therapists love research when they have the opportunity to apply it skillfully to their
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8. Read more selectively: There are wonderful and amazing accounts of art ther-
apy found in many books on the subject. But most of these books are not peer reviewed;
their claims have not been subjected to evaluation and critique, and should not be taken
at face value. In today’s Internet age, we are awash in information. Art therapists who
want to make a contribution to the profession should learn to use a research database
to find the best and most current studies on which to build their own knowledge and
research. To promote higher standards for scholarship in art therapy, I provide pub-
lished exemplars of each research model.
7. Ask different questions: Art therapists have long been fascinated with finding
the keys to unlock the meaning of certain symbols or images that turn up in therapy. In
1995, former editor Cathy Malchiodi wrote that most research submitted to Art Therapy
at the time focused on surveys of “what other art therapists are doing or thinking, rather
than on clients’ experiences” and on “the content of art expressions” known as art-
based assessment (p. 218). Few studies examined the process of art therapy treatment
or its efficacy. The situation hasn’t changed much today. Much has not been examined
and many important questions need to be asked. Readers will find detailed discussion
of “researchable questions” in this text that are unique to art therapy and that lead to a
broad range of possible research approaches.
6. Craft better research designs: Quality research is made possible when art thera-
pists intentionally craft their studies to collect data from direct observation, to analyze
the data systematically, and to examine the validity of their findings against plausible
alternative explanations. There are many one-shot case studies in art therapy; little
research has been conducted with a large number of participants or in multiple sites.
Various chapters identify the basic elements of each kind of study and strategies for the
design and conduct of valid research.
3. Replicate: I have often wondered why so many well-crafted studies are never
replicated to expand their original findings with new applications, populations, or adap-
tations. Perhaps art therapists, like many artists, are inspired by originality of expres-
sion; the thought of repeating a published research study may seem counterintuitive,
like copying someone’s creative work. Scientists, on the other hand, are always experi-
menting to see if they can get the same or different results in their lab as compared to
someone else. Even musicians commonly take songs and try them over and over with
different tempos, instrumentations, or riffs on a dominant motif. I would love to see art
therapists embrace and expand research through replication. Perhaps the many exam-
ples of published research provided in this text will acquaint readers with the scope of
studies already conducted that they may want to try for themselves.
1. Do it! Then publish it: If every art therapist made a commitment to conduct
one research study as part of his or her professional development, art therapy would
have an abundance of knowledge generated. Various art therapy conferences in recent
years have supported this kind of grassroots commitment to research. But how many
art therapists who present their work at conferences take the next step and write up their
research? Hopefully, the final chapter on writing for publication in Art Therapy will
help fill this gap.
Art therapists have much to offer the on-going advancement of human understand-
ing and knowledge. There is no doubt that the same creative skills art therapists use
in practice can be applied to the design and conduct of research to contribute unique
knowledge about the process, products, and outcomes of art therapy. I hope this text
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will serve as a useful companion to that enterprise and will support art therapists
in creating, achieving, and disseminating their work for the collective benefit of the
profession.
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PART I
Overview of Art
Therapy Research
Art Therapy
Research Ideas,
Tools, and Steps
1
in the Process
… the top of the mountain, the
honorable kill the hunter makes,
or a philosophical problem, or
the quest for peace. One must
enter absolutely into the process
to be capable of enduring it to the
end. To engage in the presence of
the earth, of nature; to seek what
is never easy; to fail as well as
to succeed; to grow weary and
ragged in the search and yet to
persevere because the mountain
does, indeed, have a summit,
the war an end; to enter a depth
and a distance that go so far
beyond the ordinary routines of
a day, or a life, that they bring
you to the beginning, is to hunt.
—R. Rudner (1991, p. 75)
Research means to seek out, to search again; by their very natures humans are seekers
and searchers. When the researcher feels alive with the pursuit of desire to discover
something, the work becomes indistinguishable from the creative process that the art
therapist knows so well (Kapitan, 1998). Research yields knowledge that nourishes
one’s profession, influences its future, opens previously closed minds, and brings forth
new understandings not previously contemplated. Most important, research carries
on a scientific exchange of critical conversations that shape knowledge and skill. Art
therapists who undertake a research project help to advance the collective understand-
ing of art therapy, contribute to the knowledge base of the field, and help to improve
client care, quality, and efficacy of art therapy in the workplace (Anderson, 2001).
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4 Introduction to Art Therapy Research
Given the creativity that art therapists apply to new directions in their artistic or
clinical work, it is puzzling to find, as Linesch did in 1995, that systematic inquiry is still
regarded by some as incompatible with art therapy. Art therapists may approach research
believing that they must fit into rigid models of social science research, a strategy that
echoes their attempts to fit into the traditional clinical world and underscores a sense of
powerlessness (Kapitan, 1998). The image of the alienated professional mirrors the client
whose actual experience with art therapy might not be located in statistics or be available
for measurement, prediction, and replication. But, as Deaver (2002) observed, art thera-
pists’ fears about research may be ungrounded: “in focusing on our clients and striving to
reason out the most effective approaches to working with them, we have in fact already
embarked on a form of art therapy research” (p. 23). Deaver wrote:
We know that art therapy is a human service profession in which trained art therapists
promote positive change and growth through artmaking. The artworks produced func-
tion as catalysts for self-discovery, thinking about old problems in new ways, interrupt-
ing a cycle of self-defeating behaviors, and other therapeutic or healing outcomes. The
approach, art tasks, and media are carefully chosen according to art therapists’ knowl-
edge of art therapy theory and techniques, psychological development, and the creative
processes involved in artmaking. Those of us with even a few years of experience are
convinced, because of what we see with our own eyes in individual, family and group
art therapy sessions, that art therapy can be effective in helping to resolve the situations
that brought people to us. Sometimes we are amazed by what happens in sessions, even
in awe of the power of art therapy to bring forth the changes we observe … But if ques-
tioned intensely about our work, we can rarely explain with any precision or confidence
how we understand the artwork produced in art therapy; what cognitive, psychological
or creative processes actually occur during the art therapy experience; or what factors
contributed to the successful outcome. Research may provide some answers. (p. 23)
intentionally. Or there may be a creative problem that can only be worked out artistically
in the studio. Some art therapists start at the beginning by identifying a question, whereas
other art therapists may read about an existing study that they would like to extend with
their own knowledge and interest. This chapter presents an overview of the logical steps
that are involved in designing research regardless of the point of entry. These are:
For art therapists who prefer to use a non-linear thought process to work out a
design, I recommend using a concept map (Figure 1.1) adapted from Maxwell (2005) to
accompany the steps in the process of design. This schema helps you develop a research
plan by tacking back and forth among five interacting, non-hierarchical components.
Researchers may enter at any of these five points and go in either direction to flesh
out the study based on the relationship between purpose, context, questions, methods,
and validity. For example, you may have a good question and can think of methods to
address it, but have no idea why it is worth the time and energy. Paying closer attention to
the context surrounding the question, by reading or reflecting on source knowledge that
inspires it, will help you uncover your purposes. Once you are clear about the purposes
and context, you will be more able to refine the problem precisely and, in turn, be led to
methods that will reveal what you want to find out. The researcher who enters the design
process at the validity point may have access to an important art therapy program, for
example, but wonders about the risks involved for clients who might be asked to partici-
pate in a study. Clarifying these validity concerns and values will suggest methods that
are appropriate for the site and, in turn, will point to a more precise research question.
As you work with each step in this chapter, from research design to actually conducting
the study and reporting results, you may want to return to this conceptual map from time
to time and use it to refine your study.
FIGURE 1.1 Conceptual map for designing the study. [Adapted from Maxwell, J. A. (2005).
Qualitative research design: An interactive approach (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage]
Art therapists convert their interests into a “researchable question” usually in stages:
by having an idea, thinking about the idea, exploring the idea in art or in clinical work,
discussing the idea with colleagues, checking it out in the existing literature, deciding
exactly what goals can be achieved through research, and finally, defining the question
precisely in order to create a working hypothesis (Bailey, 1991). In her overview of what
constitutes art therapy research, Deaver (2002) discussed some aspects of art therapy that
uniquely lend themselves to research, given the nearly limitless array of potential ques-
tions. As a springboard for generating research ideas, she organized four broad areas: (a)
the therapeutic relationship, (b) art as assessment or a measure of treatment outcomes, (c)
art as a process or intervention, and (d) art therapy as a profession (Table 1.1).
Deaver’s overview helps us think about possible questions in art therapy and
reminds us that a “researchable” question is one that serves a useful purpose and makes
a contribution to the profession. To be effective, a good research question has the fol-
lowing attributes (Bailey, 1991):
Beginning with a desire to know or to find out something, the art therapist gradually
formulates the focal question. In addition to the sources already described, art therapists
frequently use their own artmaking to surface their questions and to clarify their pur-
poses. Rhyne (1992) observed that research ideas come from the minds of people whose
curiosity urges them to question their own observations. Allen and Gantt (1992) encour-
aged the demystification of research by creating an art image of the research concern and
oneself as a researcher. I recommend creating art from the metaphor of research as hunt-
ing (Kapitan, 1998) and studying the image by observing closely its terrain, the various
8 Introduction to Art Therapy Research
guises and tools of the hunter within that terrain, and the presence or absence of what you
are hunting for. The precision with which the art therapist’s artmaking may guide research
design becomes apparent when research is creatively imagined in these ways.
Clarifying your purpose: Next, you will need to refine the question by precisely
clarifying your purpose. When research is conceptualized within the context of how you
want to use it, you will be able to focus in on different aspects of a question, problem, or
phenomenon, in order to take action and use the information obtained in specific ways
(Kapitan, 1998). This conceptual purpose helps put to rest the assumption that certain
kinds of research are more valid or truer than other kinds. Distinctions of purpose
always drive the choice of question and method. Put another way, if you want fish for
dinner, you need to go to the fishing hole with a pole, bait, and plenty of patience. You
wouldn’t choose a shotgun to fish with or insist that a shotgun is the only way to gather
food. Different researchers have different purposes. These depend upon:
r You don’t want to waste your time repeating what someone else has already
done to answer the same research question.
r If someone else has studied the problem, you want to know what the chal-
lenges were, such as not being able to control certain variables or sampling.
r You may discover an existing study on the topic that you could replicate or
use as a model to be more effective in accomplishing your goals.
r Someone may have already studied a component of your question that you
may want to build upon.
r You may want to place your study into the context of similar studies so that
others can know how to perceive your work.
r You may want to increase your understanding of the theoretical base sur-
rounding your study as well as for others who will read about your study.
r You may find excellent reasons in the literature for why your study would be sig-
nificant and how you may want to address the problem or answer questions.
r You may be prompted to change your question, give it a different emphasis,
or change other aspects once you see how others have approached a similar
question.
r You may find some of your clinical impressions challenged or confirmed by
their documentation in the research literature.
To search out the literature, of course, you will have to use a library. But the library of
the 21st century is no longer a building; it has become a portal to vast scholarly informa-
tion systems housed in zillions of electronic bits, pages, files, databases, and consortia of
interlinked library and research holdings. Research literature has been digitized and stored
1 t Art Therapy Research Ideas, Tools, and Steps in the Process 13
in massive databases that allow art therapists in Hong Kong to find and access a journal as
easily as students in Chicago. Your local university library has a rich array of powerful tools
to help you find what you need to know quickly and efficiently. Online library databases
(such as PsychINFO, Medline, CINAHL, and ERIC) are organized to locate abstracts,
peer reviewed articles, and research reports tailored to your specific needs. To take one
example, Medline is a database with over a million entries. You can search for classic
and recent research, cross-disciplinary studies, or documents with a limited circulation.
Sources found in scholarly journals like Art Therapy are especially important in conduct-
ing a literature search because the articles have been peer reviewed, meaning that original
research has been checked and verified by expert reviewers who are free of self-interest in
seeing the material published. If you are a student, access to this vast information system is
covered in your tuition; if you are a professional, you can arrange to have library privileges
at many institutions that support research. Other valuable online research tools exist to sup-
port professionals; PubMed is a wonderful online tool that offers access to Medline for free
and without the need of a library (see http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed).
On the downside of information technology are the shortcuts you may be tempted to
take if you are less familiar with how to use library or online research databases (includ-
ing Google Scholar; see http://scholar.google.com) than you are with general online search
engines like Google. The difference between articles found in PsychINFO or ERIC and
those found on a Web site on the Internet is that the former is more likely to be the product
of carefully reviewed scholarship. These reports also may appear on some Web sites but
usually are found behind the wall of costly pay-per-view access. Thus, it is worth learning
to use the library’s searchable tools for conducting your literature review (Table 1.2).
What should you do if you find only very little or no research literature for your
study? Likely the problem is that you are using keywords that are either too specific or
too broadly topical, for example, looking for research studies that precisely addressed
“studio approaches to art therapy in domestic violence” in the example given earlier.
More possibilities will appear if you unpack this focus and tease out the underlying
issues or approaches that logically fit with studies in closely related areas. One good
strategy for organizing such a search is to start by identifying topics or search terms
found in the professional literature for each of the sub-problems in your research prob-
lem statement (Figure 1.3). In the example above, topics might be domestic violence
treatment issues such as the effects of trauma on child rearing, negotiating the crimi-
nal justice system, or anger management; domestic violence program models in art
therapy; impact of the environment, space, or facilities on therapy; art assessments used
in domestic violence or similar programs; mother-child art therapy programs; treatment
interventions in domestic violence; art therapist self-assessment techniques for improv-
ing treatment effectiveness; and personal characteristics of art therapists working with
mothers and children, among other possibilities. Go to the library with this list and
begin collecting references from indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and other reference
works. If you follow your research diagram and stick to each of your sub-problems, you
won’t waste time and be distracted with irrelevant literature. Gather together all the
studies that relate to each sub-problem and use these groupings to organize the logic of
the literature review. Later, when writing the review, you will be able to use each sub-
problem as your heading for that section of your discussion.
14 Introduction to Art Therapy Research
Although there are many ways to organize research designs, as presented in Part II
of this text, one of the most basic is to decide whether a quantitative or qualitative
approach will best achieve your purpose. As described by Deaver (2002) methods that
require the researcher’s objectivity and are generally concerned with “measuring, con-
trolling for variable, cause-and-effect relationships and seeking patterns or regularities”
(p. 24) are defined as quantitative. Qualitative methods are “characterized by impres-
sions, thoughtful analysis of observed themes, and reflections” and, in general, “by the
subjective responses of the researcher and research participants to the problem or situ-
ation under investigation” (p. 24). Deaver further explained
Deaver’s explanation touches upon the interaction of two basic elements: data,
which are the empirical observations made, and theory, which is the organization of
16 Introduction to Art Therapy Research
concepts that permit the interpretation of data (Elmes, Kantowitz, & Roediger, 1999).
The process of working from specific data or cases to create a general theory is known
as induction. Deduction moves in the opposite direction, when the researcher empha-
sizes a theory in predicting data or reasons from the general to specific cases. Deaver
also noted the different emphases that quantitative and qualitative methodology put
on objectivity and subjectivity. Research that aspires toward objectivity attempts to
minimize the effect of the researcher on data by controlling the conditions in which the
data are gathered (Carolan, 2001). Qualitative research allows for subjectivity but also
strives to identify the bias of the researcher and its effects.
Table 1.3 provides a general guide for the choice of research approach and design
decisions. Keep in mind that the division of quantitative and qualitative methodology
is somewhat artificial. There are many designs that are not strictly one or the other
approach, and many designs use a mix of methods. There may be crossover in the way
you choose to address certain aspects of the study. The purpose here is to use these
thinking and planning processes to help determine the best methodology that will serve
your purposes.
An important quality of research integrity is validity. In quantitative studies that
are associated with experimentation, validity is related to
r Context (how a particular piece of data fits with the whole picture)
r Perspective (where valid research is always a matter of relationship or the
standpoints of the participants)
Many problems with validity result from not precisely delineating the research
questions, purposes, and methods. Or the researcher approaches the research with a
desire to confirm the study’s major premises or hypotheses. Art therapists are espe-
cially vulnerable to this validity threat when they lack confidence or have become
somewhat defensive from working in environments where art therapy is devalued or
unknown. They may unwittingly collect data to address questions they already know
the answers to, or they may attempt to create data that will incontrovertibly “prove”
art therapy’s value. To counter this tendency, good researchers in whatever tradition
always adopt a “functionally skeptical” stance toward their research study and data. It
takes courage to not accept findings at face value and to pose potentially disconfirm-
ing questions.
Malchiodi (1992) described experimental biases that appear in the way some
studies are constructed or conducted, in how subjects are selected, and in apply-
ing inaccurate or inappropriately instruments to the research problem. Personal bias
such as the researcher’s unaware projections also may compromise a study’s validity.
1 t Art Therapy Research Ideas, Tools, and Steps in the Process 17
norms of the group. A researcher in such a position may end up either “preaching to
the choir” in order to gain acceptance from the group, or defying groupthink and get-
ting pilloried as a heretic.
Reason (1981) offers some useful “heuristic guides” for enhancing validity. These
are not methods but simply are good practices or rules of thumb for developing critical
thinking skills. As you design your study, no matter the paradigm or methods used, see
if it can pass these tests, below.
within their unique expertise. The model described by Nainis (2007) in the model in
Table 1.4 is one example of how a research team may function and is fairly typical
in collaborative research.
In this model, the art therapist may be the one who carries out the experimental
variable or art therapy treatment while other members of the team secure a valid and
reliable study by providing expertise in such aspects as testing, inputting data, statisti-
cal analysis, or selecting the participants. Musham (2001) has described other roles
art therapists can take that are critical to the success of a research study where art is
used, especially when the principal investigator (PI) is not an art therapist. Theoretical
frameworks or the mechanics involved in art therapy may be poorly understood by
PIs, or they may not be aware of the wide range of art strategies that can be used in a
study. Art therapists may provide procedural and ethical oversight for the use of art, or
may offer strategies for helping research participants engage in art processes or handle
emotional reactions.
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Participation in a clinical research team in the agency where you work or in col-
laboration with a university is a good solution for art therapists who can’t help but
“raise the image of the irresistible, larger, powerful and noblest of animals or questions”
in their research pursuits (Kapitan, 1998, p. 25). This is the much desired research study
that will bestow respect and recognition to a large audience, proving once and for all art
therapy’s value to a large audience. But in reality the efforts of many people are needed
to successfully pursue such an animal; “it takes a community of hunters collaborating
together to succeed” (p. 25). By taking one role on the research team, usually as the
facilitator of art therapy treatment, you will be able to use the strengths and knowledge
you already possess to satisfy your research goals and to make your study more man-
ageable in scale.
federal-mandated rules for research with human subjects that require ethical review.
These forces have made a powerful impact on the ethics of research.
Patton (2002) listed some of the issues that must be brought into awareness before
implementing the study having to do with issues of harm, consent, deception, privacy,
and confidentiality of data:
r Explaining purpose: Can you explain the purpose of your study to others
in a way that is accurate and understandable? What details must you share
with those who will be participating in your study? What makes your study
worthwhile?
r Promises and reciprocity: Can you explain to your participants and
co-researchers why they should participate in the activities you have designed
for them? Have you made any promises in exchange for their participation
and can you honor these promises?
r Risk assessment: Can you explain the risks involved in participating in your
study? To what extent can people decide to opt out? What degree of psycho-
logical risk is involved? Are there other risks, such as possible political or
social repercussions for participating, or risks to participants’ family mem-
bers, peers, employers, etc.? How will you handle unknown risks that may
emerge in the study?
r Confidentiality: Can confidentiality be fully maintained? Are there any cir-
cumstances that limit confidentiality, such as the mandate to report child
abuse? How will the data be kept confidential and what degree and length of
time is involved in storing the data?
r Informed consent: Can you explain the study sufficiently to provide informed
consent? What kind of written consent is necessary to protect the rights of
both the participants and the researcher? What are the requirements of the
Institutional Review Board that will be involved?
r Data access and ownership: Who will have access to data or artworks that
are collected? Who will see the final report? What limitations on access are
necessary to protect participants? How will the data be recorded and stored?
Who owns the data or artworks?
r Safeguarding mental health: How will your participants be affected by your
study? How will you, as the researcher, be affected? Will any debriefing be
necessary after the data collection or analysis?
r Advice: Who will supervise and help you handle any ethical matters that
may arise in the study? Who will you go to for advice or to help deal with
difficulties?
r Data collection boundaries: Are there any conflicts in your role in collecting
data for the study? What limits should you set to protect your participants
from disclosing information beyond their original consent? Under what cir-
cumstances might you have to change or abandon the study?
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The hunter, though engaged in a quest that is enacted in isolation, knows that the ulti-
mate outcome of the hunt is to replenish the stores of food needed to feed the com-
munity. Likewise, the researcher is motivated not solely by the individual quest for
knowledge, but the recognition of connection to a community of professionals who
will benefit from the renewal of the basic scientific conversation the inquiry brings.
Once data has been collected and interpreted, the researcher must determine the
audience to be addressed, whether that is the self, peer professionals, policy makers,
the community, or other researchers. How the findings are presented can also take
a number of different forms, such as a research article, newsletter report, in-service
presentation, thesis, and so forth. Every hunter-researcher fulfills a larger function
of the community; when it is a matter of food or of survival, it is not a game, and it
is not entered into for power or out of arrogance and a belief in the superiority of the
hunter-researcher over the world of the pursuit … This giving attitude also prepares
the ground for future mentoring of peers and students in their research pursuits.
(Kapitan, 1998, p. 26)
The art therapist, in concluding a research study, usually has benefited from a
number of people who agreed to participate because they believed that doing so would
be worthwhile and would make a contribution to human knowledge. Thus, it is a shame
that so many research studies go unreported and unpublished. Often art therapists only
hear about a study through the good fortune of attending a presentation at a national
conference, a venue that is limited to very few attendees. In and of itself, this is not bad
because conferences are often the first place where research is reported and where art
therapists gather to discuss recent or on-going research activities. But it also happens
that unpublished findings sometimes are used to create theoretical or statistical models
that may or may not be reliable. The problem here is in reporting on studies that have
not been reviewed by independent evaluators for their claims of statistical or clinical
significance.
26 Introduction to Art Therapy Research
For art therapy research to benefit the greater good, we need to embrace the under-
standing that our ideas, once widely disseminated, have the potential to transform
knowledge (Kapitan, 2006b). We should not fail to ask, “Who else needs to know my
discoveries?” Research does not stop at generating knowledge in relative isolation, but
extends knowledge into useful practices in a multitude of directions. It does not mat-
ter whether the goal of the “hunt” is the artist’s or the scientist’s discoveries. One must
enter absolutely into the search in order to endure to the end (Kapitan, 1998). In all its
forms, knowledge is about how to act in the face of life’s demands. Such is the contribu-
tion that art therapy research may have in finding better ways of being in the world and
becoming more effective in our pursuits.
CHAPTER SUMMARY
Basic steps in research design:
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