Negotiating boundaries: reflections on the ethics of arts-based and artistic research in care contexts

Laukkanen, Anu; Jaakonaho, Liisa; Fast, Heidi; Koivisto, Taru-Anneli

doi:10.1080/17533015.2021.1999279

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“…When the researcher reacts compassionately to the metaphors and the artwork, it validates the participants' knowledge of their topic and also legitimizes the subjectivity of their experiences (Finley, 2008). Arts‐based research is a holistic and sensitive form of research, and this makes it appropriate for use with vulnerable participants (Laukkanen et al, 2021). Metaphorical language is one of the best languages for describing human change and can be used deliberately by mental health professionals to give consumers an opportunity to become active and empowered agents in their recovery (Magaña, 2019).…”

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Experiences of recovery among adults with a mental illness using visual art methods: A systematic review

Jay

Patterson

Fernandez

et al. 2022

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Arts‐based research is an established and accepted research approach and systematic reviews have been published on this methodology. There are many possible data collection techniques and study designs within arts‐based research, which have been implemented but not yet systematically reviewed. Rationales and challenges for arts‐based research have covered participants’ experiences of being in arts‐based studies in health service research. What the paper adds to existing knowledge? The main results of this systematic review are that mental health recovery concepts are effectively communicated by visual arts‐based research and participation in these studies is progressive and connecting for mental health consumers. This paper adds new knowledge about participants’ experiences specifically in visual arts‐based studies, where the participants are mental health consumers. The results are significant because they support visual arts‐based research in its development and popularity, both as a research approach and as an empowerment intervention. What are the implications for practice? The results of this systematic review can enhance the fields of qualitative research methods and mental health nursing. Recommendations for professional development can be advanced from consumers’ ideas and experiences of recovery reported in this review. Nurse scientists and consumer researchers can take into consideration visual arts‐based data collection techniques for use as research and empowerment interventions with mental health consumer participants. Abstract Introduction Art creation has been found to be therapeutic to mental health consumers, making the prospect of art creation's conceivable benefits as a mental health research strategy worthy of consideration. Aim This systematic review aims to explore experiences of recovery among adults with a mental illness using visual art methods. Method Following a comprehensive database search, 14 suitable studies were identified. These involved adult participants with a formal mental health diagnosis, or who self‐identify as having a mental illness. The studies employed arts‐based methodologies with participant‐created, visual art as their data. Articles underwent data extraction and quality appraisal with the JBI‐QARI (Qualitative Assessment and Review Instrument). Results Results were categorised and further aggregated into two synthesised findings according to Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidelines. The synthesised findings are: (1) Creative artmaking enables the use of visual metaphors which can aid expression of feelings, externalisation of identity, and personal learning, and (2) Interpersonal and self‐connectedness through inclusion in community, receiving support when needed, and progressing through loss, are beneficial for mental health recovery. Discussion These findings are comparable to those already existing in the literature, and suggest that visual arts‐based research methods are as dependable as other qualitat...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences of recovery among adults with a mental illness using visual art methods: A systematic review

Jay

Patterson

Fernandez

et al. 2022

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…Returning to subject-specific performing arts research, this is particularly true in qualitative, applied studies in the performing arts that draw on the most recent critical theory paradigms in dance studies, musicology, theater studies, and performance studies (e.g., critical race theory, decolonization theory, critical gender theory, and critical disability theory; Cox et al, 2020 ; Laukkanen et al, 2022 ; Sadeghi-Yekta and Prendergast, 2022 ). These frameworks require awareness of systemic marginalization and implicit bias as well as commitment to deconstruct and counter such tendencies for ethical purposes or to affect transformative, social change.…”

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“…Reciprocal reflection also reemerges across the literature, and a wealth of examples are shared of how culturally meaningful practices can become reflection formats (from storytelling circles through artistic feed-back models). Methods of self-reflection and ongoing bias screening are raised, and so are ideas for how to share research agency and ownership with participants (Cox et al, 2020 ; Hibberd, 2020 ; Timonen et al, 2021 ; Laukkanen et al, 2022 ; Ruby et al, 2022 ; Sadeghi-Yekta and Prendergast, 2022 ).…”

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Transdisciplinary solutions to methodological and ethical problems in performing arts psychology

Hansen

2024

Front. Psychol.

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In the first part of this article, I argue that transdisciplinary research can help address both the WEIRD problem of homogenous samples and the categorical problem of overgeneralized practice conceptions in performing arts psychology. Like other areas of performance science, performing arts psychology engages with practices and practice-based knowledge that are studied differently by subject-specific disciplines. I propose a transdisciplinary research model that facilitates greater overlap and transfer between the scientific, subject-specific, and practice-based forms of research and knowledge that surround a practice. The potential benefits of such a model are more inclusive samples, diversified methods, grounded research questions, and widely applicable results. The problems mentioned above are also ethical. Psychological definitions of performance that derive from overgeneralized conceptions and overreliance on homogenous samples are transferred to diverse peoples, practices, and contexts as general knowledge. This fails to apply principles of equity and relational ethics, which in turn reveals some limitations of established ethics procedures. In the second section of this article, I therefore revisit my argument for transdisciplinary research, now with a focus on the triad of research ethics that is brought into a transdisciplinary project through the different priorities of scientific, subject-specific, and practice-based research domains; namely, procedural ethics, relational ethics, and principles of equity. Transdisciplinary researchers are not only negotiating across methodological paradigms that determine research validity, they are also negotiating across ethical values. Combining the two sections of the article, I argue that the challenge of negotiation can be flipped into a solution to the WEIRD and practice conception problems in performing arts psychology. I argue that whereas critical calls for radical departures were needed to identify these problems, solutions are available in bridges between different ethical and methodological approaches.

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The complex nature of boundary work in arts and health: a reflective journey in a social design project

de Kock,

Groot,

van Wijmen

et al. 2023

Arts & Health

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Negotiating boundaries: reflections on the ethics of arts-based and artistic research in care contexts

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Experiences of recovery among adults with a mental illness using visual art methods: A systematic review

Experiences of recovery among adults with a mental illness using visual art methods: A systematic review

Transdisciplinary solutions to methodological and ethical problems in performing arts psychology

The complex nature of boundary work in arts and health: a reflective journey in a social design project

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