Interdisciplinary Topics: Ethics in Research in the Creative Arts Therapies

C. Dileo. Ethical Thinking in Music Therapy, 2nd edition. Jeffrey Books, 2021. Additional resource.

G. Ansdell and M. Pavlicevic. Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies: A Practical Guide. Jessica Kingsley, 2001.

G. Tsiris, C. Farrant and M. Pavlicevic. A Guide to Research Ethics for Arts Therapists and Arts & Health Practitioners. Jessica Kingsley, 2014.

L. R. Furman. Ethics in Art Therapy: Challenging Topics for a Complex Modality. Jessica Kingsley, 2013.

B. Moon. Ethical Issues in Art Therapy. Charles C. Thomas, 2000.

K. Pope and M. Vasquez. Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling: A Practical Guide, 5th edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Required: Most recent version of the codes of ethics relevant to the student’s therapeutic discipline. The instructions name CAMT and AMTA for music, AATQ and AATA for art, and NADTA for drama; specific listed documents follow.

Required, relevant discipline: North American Drama Therapy Association. NADTA Ethical Principles, June 2019. https://www.nadta.org/assets/AboutNADTA/NADTA_EthicsCode_2019.pdf

Required, relevant discipline: Canadian Association for Music Therapists. CAMT Code of Ethics, 2022. https://www.musictherapy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CAMT-Code-of-Ethics-FINAL-2022-EN.pdf

Required, relevant discipline: L’Association des art-thérapeutes du Québec. The Art Therapist’s Ethical Standards and Code of Ethics, 2021.

Required, listed professional standard: Canadian Art Therapy Association. Standards of Practice, 2003–2004.

Required: Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, 2022; section A, The Importance of Research, and section B, Ethics and Core Principles. https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/policy-politique_tcps2-eptc2_2022.html

Required: S. McLeod. “The Milgram shock experiment.” Simply Psychology, 2023. https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html

Required: S. Baines and J. Edwards. “Considering the ways in which anti-oppressive practice principles can inform health research.” The Arts in Psychotherapy 42(1), 28–34, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2015.01.001

Optional further reading: E. Kuri. “Ethics in arts based research.” Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy 54(3), 197–219, 2020.

Optional further reading: K. M. Murphy. “Ethical thinking in music therapy research.” In Music Therapy Research, pp. 151–164, 2016.

Optional further reading: M. Watkins and H. Shulman. “Placing dialogical ethics at the center of psychological research.” In Toward Psychologies of Liberation, pp. 299–312. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227736_15