Art Therapy Research in Practice

Contents: Andrea Gilroy: Introduction: N=1: Practitioner Research in Art Therapy - Frances Prokofiev: 'I've been longing and longing for more and more of this': Researching Art Therapy in the Treatment of Children with Developmental Deficits - Uwe Herrmann: The Tangible Reflection: A Single Case Study Investigating Body Image Development in Art Psychotherapy with a Congenitally Blind Client - Hilary Hosea: The Brush's Footmarks: Researching a Small Community Art Therapy Group - Elizabeth Stirling: Collaboration, Education, Frustration: Integrating Art Therapy into the School Setting - Andrea Gilroy: Commentary: Art Therapy with Children - Barrie Damarell: Shaping Thoughts: An Investigation into the Cognitive Significance of Image-Making for People with Learning Disabilities - Robin Tipple: Art Therapy and Diagnostic Assessment - Elizabeth Ashby: Resourceful, Skilful and Flexible: Art Therapy with People who have Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour - Andrea Gilroy: Commentary: Art Therapy with People who have Learning Disabilities - Kevin Jones: Art 'fer-a-Pee'. An Exploratory Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) of Group Based Art Therapy as an Adjunctive Treatment for People with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia - Chris Wood: The Evolution of Art Therapy in Relation to Psychosis and Poverty - Jacky Mahony: Artefacts Related to an Art Psychotherapy Group: The Therapist's Art Practice as Research - Sally Skaife: Maps and Mess: Group Members' Experience of the Relationship between Art and Talk in an Art Therapy Group - Andrea Gilroy: Commentary: Art Therapy with Adults.

Andrea Gilroy is an experienced art therapy educator and researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is Reader in Art Psychotherapy and Head of the Department of Professional and Community Education. She originally trained as a painter before qualifying as an art therapist in the mid-1970s, working in acute psychiatry and with people with learning disabilities. Her research interests include the development of art therapy's evidence base, particularly through practice-based and visual research methods, the interface between the theories and practices of visual art/visual culture and art therapy, and the development of art therapy as a practice and a profession around the world.