This book explores the rationale, methodologies, and results of arts-based approaches in social work research today.
It is the first dedicated analysis of its kind, providing practical examples of when to choose arts-based research, how the arts are used by social work researchers and integrated with additional methods, and ways to evaluate its efficacy. The multiple examples of arts-based research in social work in this book reveal how arts methods are inherently connected to the resilience and creativity of research participants, social workers, and social work researchers.
With international contributions from experts in their fields, this is a welcome overview of the arts in social work for anyone connected to the field.
Introduction ~ Ephrat Huss and Eltje Bos;
Section 1: Arts-Based Research as a Method to Understand and Give Voice to
Marginalized Groups
Using Arts-Based Methods to Explore Existential Issues around Ageing ~ Paola
de Bruijn & Erik Jansen
Art- And Music-Based Activities and Nondeliberative Participatory Research
Methods: Building Connection and Community ~ Brian L. Kelly
Arts-Based Methods to Co-create Knowledge and Reconstruct Power Relations
with Marginalized Women in and through Research ~ Sofie Vindevogel
Auto-Ethnographic Playwriting and Performance for Self-Healing and Advocacy ~
Rogério Meireles Pinto
Using Photography to Research the Other the Validity of Photography for
Social Work Research: A Visual Case Study from China ~ Peter Szto
Mixed Arts-Based Methods as a Platform for Expressing Lived Experience ~ Orna
Shemer and Eitan Shahar
Art-Based Methods to Support and Reveal New Mothers and Families
Experiences: A Positive Parenting and Feminist Approach ~ Lucķa Hervįs
Hermida
Section 2: Using Arts-Based Research to Listen to, and Give Voice to,
Children in Social Work
I Dont Like the Cameras in the House. Theyre Looking at Us All the Time:
The Contribution of Photovoice to Children in a Post-hospitalization Program
~ Arielle Friedman & Hila Zaguri
Art-Based Research Work with Migrant Children ~ Genevieve Guetemme
Using Creative Art Research Approaches to Assess Arts Based Interventions
with Children in Post Disaster Contexts ~ Julie Drolet, Nasreen Lalani, and
Caroline McDonald-Harker
Section 3: Arts-Based Research as a Way for Researchers and Community
Members to Understand Communities
Murals and Photography in Community Engagement and Assessment ~ Holly
Feen-Calligan, Elizabeth Barton, Julie Moreno, Emma Buzzard, & Marion
Jackson
Forum Theatre as Participatory Action Research with Community Workers ~ Mike
de Kreek, Eltje Bos, & Margareta von Salisch
A/R/Tography, Rhizomatic Storytelling, and Ripple Effects Mapping: A Combined
Arts-Based and Community Mapping Methodology to Evaluate the Impact of
COVID-19 Expressive Arts Support Groups for Frontliners in the Philippines ~
Maria Regina A. Alfonso , Adrienne M. Santos Lagmay, M.A., Joey A. Atayde,
Kathleen Bautista, & M. Imelda Lukban
Art and Artefact: Displaying Social Work through Objects ~ Mark Doel
Building Research Capacity: Scaffolding the Process through Arts-Based
Pedagogy ~ Ronald P.M.H. Lay
Art as a way of improving Participatory Action Research: an experience with
youngsters with an intellectual disability and their families ~ Linda Ducca
Epilogue ~ Ephrat Huss and Eltje Bos
Ephrat Huss is an art therapist and Senior Professor of Social Work at Ben Gurion University.
Eltje Bos is Professor of Cultural and Social Dynamics at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
