Question 1

Using the template "when I am in 'x' situation, I usually do 'y' in order to 'x'…", Joe reports that in his art therapy program for adolescents with anorexia he usually has the girls do body tracings followed writing words about themselves on different parts of the body tracing. He does this because he has found that the activity helps the girls connect their feelings with their bodies. What "theory-in-use" might his treatment strategy reflect?

Accepted Answer

A)  Art therapy is a visual-perceptual modality that can help correct distortions of thinking and feeling. 
B)  Art therapy is a psychoanalytic therapy that can help anorexic girls work through family issues that may have led to the development of the disease. 
C)  Art therapy offers rehabilitative treatment to help anorexic girls recover their motor control that was weakened by the disease. 
D)  Art therapy offers a phenomenological-existential approach to anorexia by helping clients encounter their feelings about mortality and perfection.

Question 2

Which of the following ethical issues is a particular concern for researchers conducting an ethnographic study or PAR?

Accepted Answer

A)  Attention to insider and outsider perspectives on power, agency, and control 
B)  The effect of the control group on the outcomes of the study 
C)  Confidentiality when bringing the research results back to the therapist's own reference groups 
D)  Subjectivity in the data collection, due to the cultural differences being studied

Question 3

An art therapist wants to understand why attendance has dropped off in his pain management art therapy group. What might be the dialectic operating in the situation that he could examine in action-research?

Accepted Answer

A)  Patients may have a conflict due to the frequency and timing of their medical appointments. 
B)  Patients may expect art therapy to help decrease their physical pain but fear getting in touch with emotional pain. 
C)  Patients may prefer a less physical modality to help them manage their pain. 
D)  Patients may have a conflict with either the therapist or the other patients in the group.

Question 4

Identify a "unit of analysis" for a case study. Create a series of portraits of the case or cases from different perspectives (therapist, client, community, family, other staff, culture, etc.).

Accepted Answer

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Exam 6: Investigating the Field

Which of the following ethical issues is a particular concern for researchers conducting an ethnographic study or PAR?

An art therapist wants to understand why attendance has dropped off in his pain management art therapy group. What might be the dialectic operating in the situation that he could examine in action-research?

Identify a "unit of analysis" for a case study. Create a series of portraits of the case or cases from different perspectives (therapist, client, community, family, other staff, culture, etc.).