Part 1 Overview of art therapy research. p. 1.-- 1. Art therapy research ideas, tools, and steps in the process. p. 3.-- 2. How art informs art therapy research. p. 29.-- Part 2 Art therapy research methods. p. 49.-- 3. Quantitative models of art therapy research. p. 51.-- 4. Outcomes research to generate evidence-based practice. p. 73.-- 5. Investigating the field: participant-observation. p. 95.-- 6. Researching the phenomena of conscious experience. p. 135.-- 7. Art-based inquiry: an emerging paradigm in art therapy. p. 161.-- Part 3 Doing art therapy research. p. 183.-- 8. Before you begin: the research proposal and other ethical safeguards. p. 185.-- 9. Models of good research: conducting the study and reporting results. p. 203.-- 10. Writing for publication in art therapy and other scholarly journals. p. 243