N/NY-RE-65 - Arts-based Research Approaches to Studying Mechanisms of Change in the Creative Arts Therapies

This presentation introduces a preliminary qualitative research study exploring the role and function of multiple interactive aesthetic intersubjective phenomena relative to transformation in perception, behavior, and relationship through the creative arts therapies processes. Doctoral students and faculty studied these phenomena in an analogous creative arts therapies laboratory using Intrinsic Arts-Based Research.

Dr. Nancy Gerber

PhD, ATR-BC

Florida State University

Nancy Gerber, Ph.D, ATR-BC is Associate Clinical Professor Emerita and founding and former director of the Ph.D Program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University.  She currently is Teaching Faculty at Florida State University. Previously she was the Director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at Drexel University. Dr. Gerber has presented and published on doctoral education for art therapists, mixed methods research, aesthetic intersubjective worldview in research and practice, arts-based research, and the mechanisms of change in the creative arts therapies.  She was a former vice-chair of the IRB and currently chairs the Doctoral Education Subcommittee for the American Art Therapy Association. She co-facilitates  the Arts-Based Research SIG at the International Congress of Qualitative Research.  Dr. Gerber has developed the Arts-Based Research Global Consortium to advance socially responsible arts-based research. Dr. Gerber was the first recipient of the first Distinguished Educator’s Award from the American Art Therapy Association.

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