RESEARCH

FOCUSING RESEARCH EFFORTS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

1. Outcome/efficacy research
2. Art therapy and neuroscience
3. Research on the processes and mechanisms in art therapy
4. Art therapy assessment validity and reliability
5. Cross-cultural/multicultural approaches to art therapy assessment and practice
6. Establishment of a database of normative artwork across the lifespan

SEEKING TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

1. What interventions produce specific outcomes with particular populations or specific disorders?
2. How does art therapy compare to other therapeutic disciplines that do not include art practice in terms of various outcomes?
3. How reliable and valid is any art therapy assessment?
4. What neurobiological processes are involved in art making during art therapy?
5. To what extent do a person’s verbal associations to artwork created in art therapy enhance, support, or contradict?
6. What are ways of making art therapy more effective for clients of different ethnic and racial backgrounds?

AATA’s Art Therapy Bibliographic Search Tool allows you to find listings of art therapy publications and theses from FOUR research sources: the Art Therapy Outcomes Bibliography, the Art Therapy Assessment Bibliography, the Multicultural Committee Selected Bibliography and Resource List, and the National Art Therapy Thesis and Dissertation Abstract Compilation.

The Art Therapy Bibliographic Search Tool enables you to search bibliographic entries based on one or all of the following characteristics: author name, category/treatment group, keywords, title, reference type, and year of publication.

AATA Member Exclusive: All AATA members have the benefit of viewing more details about each database entry, including abstracts, topics, and comments!