ART THERAPY RESEARCH

Student Achievement & Art Therapy Research

National Alliance of Pupil Service Organizations (NAPSO) List of Art Therapy Research Resources Linking Pupil Services Personnel to Student Achievement

1. Pupil services personnel provide a variety of intervention and prevention services to promote effective classroom learning:
   • Rosal, M., McCulloch-Vislisel, S., & Neese, S. (1997). Keeping students in school: An art therapy program to benefit ninth grade students. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 14(2), 30-36.
2. Pupil services personnel provide educational programs and activities that support student learning and teaching:
   • Pleasant-Metcalf, A. & Rosal, M. (1997). The use of art therapy to improve academic performance. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 14(1) 23-29.
3. Pupil services personnel help to remove students' barriers to learning, including communication disorders, substance abuse, violence, and emotional disturbances:
   • Harvey, S. (1989). Creative arts therapies in the classroom: A study of cognitive, emotional, and motivational changes. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 11, 85-100.
   • Julliard, K. (1998). Outcomes research in health care: Implications for art therapy. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 15(1), 13-21.
   • Omizo, M. & Omizo, S. (1988). Intervention through art. Academic Therapy, 24(1) 103-106.
   • Rosal, M. (1993). Comparative group art therapy research to evaluate changes in locus of control in behavior disordered children. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 20(3) 231-241.
   • Smitheman-Brown, V., & Church, R. P. Mandala drawing: Facilitating creative growth in children with ADD or ADHD. Art Therapy, 13(4), 252-259.
   • Tibbets, T. & Stone, B. (1990). Short-term art therapy with seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 17, 139-146.
4. "Pupil services personnel work with teachers and administrators to develop a positive school climate:
   • Lyons, S. & Tropea, E. (1987). Creative arts therapists as consultants: Methods and approaches to inservice training in the special education forum. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 14(30, 243-247.