Institute for Art Therapy and Research

Institute for Art Therapy and Research / Art and Theater in the Social
Institute for Art Therapy and Research
Category:	Artistic Therapy
Carrier:	University of Arts in Social, Ottersberg
Legal form of the carrier:	Independent university
Seat of the wearer:	Ottersberg
Facility location:	Ottersberg
Type of research:	practice-oriented research, basic research, applied research
Subjects:	Art therapy , theater education , aesthetic education , socio-cultural work
Areas of expertise:	Art in the social , artistic therapy
Basic funding:	Private
Homepage:	www.kunsttherapieforschung.de

The Institute for Art Therapy and Research / Art and Theater in the Social is a research facility affiliated with the private University of Arts in the Social, Ottersberg . The director is Constanze Schulze-Stampa.

history

The Institute for Art Therapy and Research was founded on November 19, 2004. In May 2005, the University of Applied Sciences' conference and sponsoring company decided to convert the institute into a university facility.

The institute sees itself as a place where art, theater, therapy and scientific research meet. The research activities of the institute include the conception, promotion, implementation and support of practice-oriented research projects. Its basis is the artistic work for and with people.

research

The tasks include

• the scientific research and justification of art therapeutic and theater pedagogical practice
• the conception, promotion and implementation of practice-oriented research projects
• the development and implementation of training programs
• the scientific support and accompaniment of art therapeutic and theater pedagogical practical projects

The University of Arts and Social Sciences, Ottersberg has been developing an applied research focus on artistic interventions in health promotion and prevention since 2015, which is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture. The overarching goal of this is the investigation of artistic and art therapeutic interventions in health promotion and prevention, which are focused in the following five specific application areas within the framework of individual sub-projects:

1. Hospital as an institution
2. Multimodal treatment concepts
3. Social therapeutic concepts in the correctional facility
4. Corporate cultures
5. Health-promoting living environments

It is about the merging of artistic and evidence-based research in the sense of mixed methods designs.

The research projects take place in different areas of artistic therapy . This includes clinical , psychotherapeutic , pedagogical , curative pedagogy and other socio-cultural fields as well as free art therapeutic and theater pedagogical practice.

further education

The Institute for Art Therapy and Research offers an extensive program of events and further education as well as a further education course:

• Further education course "Clinical anthroposophic art therapy" as a cooperation project with the Herdecke community hospital

Cooperations

As part of its research projects, the institute cooperates with various universities, institutes and hospitals, among others. a. With

• the Herdecke community hospital ,
• the Nürtingen University of Art Therapy ,
• the Alanus University for Art and Society in Alfter,
• the University of Witten / Herdecke ,
• and the German College for Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM), integrated working group “Artistic Therapies”.

literature

• P. Sinapius, M. Ganß: Basics, models and examples of art therapy documentation. (= Scientific basics of art therapy. Volume 1). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55052-6 .
• M. Ganß, P. Sinapius, P. de Smit: "I see you speak so much" - language in the reference field of practice and documentation of artistic therapies. (= Scientific basics of art therapy. Volume 2). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56624-4 .
• P. Sinapius, M. Wendlandt-Baumeister, A. Niemann, R. Bolle: Image theory and image practice in art therapy. (= Scientific basics of art therapy. Volume 3). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-58659-4 .
• P. Sinapius, A. Niemann (ed.): The third in art and therapy. (= Scientific foundations of art therapy. Volume 4). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61542-3 .
• P. de Smit (Ed.): By the side - 40 years of Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences. Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences, 2008.

See also

• Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences

Web links

• Official website

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.kunsttherapieforschung.de/03_institut/mitarbeiter.php
2. ↑ F. Gölz, P. Sinapius (ed.): In-between - therapy as art in the social. Documentation of the founding day of the Institute for Art Therapy and Research. Institute for Art Therapy and Research, Ottersberg 2005.
3. ↑ cf. Research focus of the Institute for Art Therapy and Research / Art and Theater in the Social .
4. ^ Artistic interventions in health promotion and prevention. In: University of Arts in Social, Ottersberg. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ cf. M. Ganß, A. Niemann, P. Sinapius: Between diagnosis and intuition. Results of a research project at the Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences and the Herdecke community hospital. In: Art and Therapy / Journal for Visual Therapies. 1/2007, pp. 15-22.
6. ↑ cf. Research projects of the Institute for Art Therapy and Research / Art and Theater in the Social .