Social Work Research Using Arts-Based Methods

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.

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 ~ Lucía Hervás Hermida

Section 2: Using Arts-Based Research to Listen to, and Give Voice to, Children in Social Work

“I Don’t Like the Cameras in the House. They’re 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