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care for clients with mild learning disability and psychiatric problems and forensic psychiatry) (Table 1).
Table 1. Participants
Therapist Population (all adults)
1. Psychosocial and Personality disorders (daytime)
2. Rehabilitation (addiction)
3. Psychiatric (clinical)
4. Psychiatric (clinical and daytime)
5. Psychiatric (daytime)
6. Forensic
7. Psychiatric, mild learning disability (daytime)
Interviews
The art therapists were interviewed in-depth (Charmaz, 2006) to allow art therapists to narrate their experiences and views on the use and observation of art materials in art therapy assessment. The art therapists were asked to select one or two representative clients of their clinical setting in preparation for these interviews. Selection criteria required that the client was still in treatment and the assessment had occurred recently to ensure that the therapist had a clear memory of the assessment. The art therapists were asked to talk in detail about the client’s art making process based on the art products and the role art materials played during this process. Open-ended questions were asked to encourage the art therapist to fully explore the use of art materials in their assessment.
Two art therapists were re-interviewed about their clients’ art making processes of clients to verify and deepen our analysis (step 3). These interviews were semi-structured and based on our current findings. Open- ended questions were asked to invite the art therapists to elaborate on the possible relationship between the art materials, the way in which a client used the art materials and the information these factors provided therapists about the client’s mental health.
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