Evaluation Of An Art Therapy Program: Client Perceptions And Future Directions

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 workshop, (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.