The Need for Robust Critique of Arts and Health Research: Young People, Art Therapy and Mental Health

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Grebosz-Haring, Katarzyna, Thun-Hohenstein, Leonhard, Schuchter-Wiegand, Anna Katharina, Irons, Y., Bathke, Arne, Phillips, Kate and Clift, Stephen 2022. The Need for Robust Critique of Arts and Health Research: Young People, Art Therapy and Mental Health. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821093
AuthorsGrebosz-Haring, Katarzyna, Thun-Hohenstein, Leonhard, Schuchter-Wiegand, Anna Katharina, Irons, Y., Bathke, Arne, Phillips, Kate and Clift, Stephen
Abstract

We describe work in progress to conduct a systematic review of research on effects of arts-based programs for mental health in young people. We are at the stage of searching for relevant studies through major databases and screening extant systematic reviews for additional research which meet our inclusion criteria. At this stage, however, concerns have arisen regarding both the quality of existing primary studies and of recently published systematic reviews in this area of arts and health. As a case in point, in this paper we focus on one research report on art therapy with adolescent girls and its inclusion in three systematic reviews. We demonstrate that the reviews fail to undertake a robust critique of the Bazargan and Pakdaman paper and that the paper and reviews are flawed. Drawing on recent criticisms of systematic reviewing, we consider the value of proceeding with our systematic review as initially planned.

Keywordsmusic; arts; youth; psychiatric disorders; health; review
Year2022
JournalFrontiers in Psychology
Journal citation13
PublisherFrontiers Media
ISSN1664-1078
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821093
Web address (URL)http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821093
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