Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, is a Professor Emerit and founding Director of Graduate and Doctoral Art Therapy at Mount Mary University (USA) as well as a past president of the American Art Therapy Association and international research consultant.

Introduction to Art Therapy Research

PART I OVERVIEW OF ART THERAPY RESEARCH

1. Art Therapy Research Ideas, Tools, and Steps in the Process

2. The Landscape of Art Therapy Research: Worldview, Paradigms, and Tools of the Discipline

PART II ART THERAPY RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES

3. Quantitative Strategies for Art Therapy Research

4. Generating Art Therapy's Evidence Base

5. Investigating the Field with Qualitative Research

6. Researching the Phenomena of Lived Experience

7. Transformative-Critical Research: Practice-Changing, Participatory, and Anti-Oppressive

8. Art-Based Research in Art Therapy

PART III CONDUCTING ART THERAPY RESEARCH

9. Before You Begin: Research Ethics and Oversight

10. Models and Critique of Good Research

11. Writing, Reporting, and Disseminating Your Research