| Abstrakt: |
Program evaluation has the potential to offer many useful benefits to the field of art therapy, yet little has been published in this area. This brief report presents a practical strategy for art therapy program evaluation based on participant evaluations (N = 120) of a 10-week community based art therapy workshop. The evaluations consisted of self-reports by participants to open ended questions: (a) whether expectations were met, (b) likes and dislikes, (c) suggested changes for the work-shop, (d) perceived personal changes, and (e) interest in continued participation. The report describes a participant-led evaluation tool, the evaluation findings, planned revisions in the questionnaire, and considerations for future program development, evaluation, and art therapy research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
