Deck 8: Art-Based Inquiry

Question 1

What is art-based inquiry, and what are its main purposes?

A) Art as a primary research method for confirming the results of outcome studies.
B) Art as a method for assessing clients to produce knowledge about the effects of art therapy.
C) Art as a primary method for perceiving and illuminating art therapy knowledge.
D) Art as a method for challenging traditional research by placing primary importance on the art rather than on therapy.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Summarize the key features that distinguish art-based inquiry.

A) reflexivity, heightened sensory experience, aesthetic communication
B) reflexivity, aesthetic communication, formal assessment
C) heightened sensory experience, aesthetic communication, open studio
D) aesthetic communication, art-based assessment, open studio

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is the primary outcome of art-based inquiry?

A) The place of art in the practice of art therapy can be reestablished.
B) The artistic methods by which art therapists work and construct new knowledge can be measured.
C) The power of art can be assessed to confirm what art therapists observe daily in their work.
D) New propositions and understandings can be advanced from which to construct art therapy knowledge.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What elements must an art-based inquiry have to satisfy the definition of research?

Question 5

What is the purpose of using an artist's "critical vision" as a data gathering method?

A) Engaging in a creative process can serve to disrupt existing perceptions about a subject and produce new insight.
B) Critique of an artist's work can produce insights that will strengthen future works.
C) An artist's vision can advance the use of intuition to verify what scientists learn from empirical observation.
D) Artworks collected as data can serve to challenge the tradition of collecting scientific data.

Question 6

If validity in art-based inquiry is obtained through public critique, how might an art therapist modify an arts-based design to improve validity?

A) Present the findings in an art exhibition and ask viewers for their responses to them.
B) Ask participants to critique the findings and compare the responses of the experimental group with those of the control group.
C) Invite an artist or artists to critique the artworks produced by clients in an art therapy session.
D) As the researcher, create a journal of your responses to the artworks created throughout the study.

Question 7

Match the artist's cognitive processes with the related social science research paradigm in the following examples:
-"Thinking in a medium" that emphasizes forms to be studied for their meanings and impact on the person who created them

A) (empiricist, traditional science)
B) (interpretivist, narrative)
C)(critical inquiry)

Question 8

Match the artist's cognitive processes with the related social science research paradigm in the following examples:
-"Thinking in an language" that results in ideas to be shared and understood by the person who created them

A) (empiricist, traditional science)
B) (interpretivist, narrative)
C)(critical inquiry)

Question 9

Match the artist's cognitive processes with the related social science research paradigm in the following examples:
-"Thinking in a context" that results in situations that can be studied for their influences on the people involved in their creation

A) (empiricist, traditional science)
B) (interpretivist, narrative)
C)(critical inquiry)

Question 10

Why is it beneficial for an art therapist interested in art-based inquiry to become more "science-aware"?

A) Art therapists who are interested in art-based inquiry need to validate their studies with empirical research.
B) Art therapists who are interested in art-based inquiry can bring a critical perspective to science if they are familiar with its research traditions.
C) Art therapists who are interested in art-based inquiry can overcome isolation by engaging with scientists and other traditional researchers.
D) Art therapists who are interested in art-based inquiry can correct the biases of scientists about art if they speak their language.

Question 11

How does engaging in an artistic method of inquiry affect the art therapist researcher's relationships to art therapy and to others?

Question 12

What is the particular way in which art-based research can be said to be "generalizable"? In what way is not generalizable?

Question 13

Apply the concept of "critical vision" to an artistic process of your choice that reflects on a particular therapeutic concern.

Question 14

Design a "creative arts-based treatment plan" for your research problem (or use one of the 4 examples provided in the text).

Question 15

Apply one of the artistic data analysis methods to frame, encounter, critique, and create from your own inquiry.

Question 16

Design a focused program of inquiry around the structure of an art exhibition or performance.

Question 17

Write an art-based data gathering method into the design of a case study, treatment outcomes study; write an art-based interpretive method or presentation method into an experiment.