Art Therapy Research Resources

Art Therapy Research Texts

Gilroy, A. (2006). Art therapy, research and evidence-based practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Kapitan, L. (2010). Introduction to art therapy research. New York: Routledge.

Kaplan, F. (2000). Art, science and art therapy: Repainting the picture. London: Jessica Kingsley.

McNiff, S. (1998). Art-based research. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.

Art Therapy Links & Research Ethics

American Art Therapy Association Resource page: http://www.americanarttherapyassociation.org/aata-resources.html

American Educational Research Association. (2006). Standards for reporting on empirical social science research in AERA publications. Available: www.aera.net/opportunities/?id=1850

National Institutes of Health. (2003). Protecting personal health information in research: Understanding the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Available: http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_02.asp

Online Ethics (information on the responsible conduct of research, plus case studies, reports, discussion groups, and ethics codes from various professional societies in different countries): http://onlineethics.org

Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) in the National Institute of Health: http://obsr.odnih/gov

The Department of Ethics at NIH (reports and studies on human subject protection and ethical issues on recruitment, vulnerable populations, technology, clinical research, and multinational capacity building): http://bioethics.nih.gov

U.S. Department of Education (general information on the protection of human subjects, regulations governing protection and materials such as the Belmont Report and an Institutional Review Board Guidebook): http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/humansub.html

American Psychological Association (continuing education resources on ethics, ethics codes, and a draft of "universal ethical procedures" for developing standards that are appropriate for different cultural contexts): http://www.apa.ethics/homepage/html

American Art Therapy Association - AmericanArtTherapyAssociation.org