Research project

Title: Recovery from child sexual abuse trauma within an arts therapies programme for women.

Project timescale: From 01 October, 1993 to 01 October, 1997
(Added to website on: 01 June, 2001 - Date last updated: 20 April, 2007)

Source of funding:
NHS Trust

Aims: To develop a model of the recovery process within this context (multi-modal, time-limited arts therapy provision, adult mental health, CSA trauma)

Research designs used:
Action Research
Study of views/experiences
Other: Participatory research using a design based on Meekums(1993)Research as an Act of Creation. H.Payne(ed) Handbook of Inquiry into Arts Therapy.Lon:JKP

Methods used to collect data:
Focus groups
Interviews

Research project description: Four cycles of research were undertaken each with a different group of women who had participated in a multi-model arts therapy group. Interviews were coded and analysed. Findings were checked and refined with research participants prior to write-up.

Stages at which the public were involved:
Designing the research instruments
(eg questionnaires, patient information sheets)
Undertaking the research
Analysing the research
Other: The degree of participation varied according to the wishes and needs of each person.

Description of public involvement in research stages: As above

Training and support provided for either members of the public or researchers involved in the project:

Examples of ways the public have made a difference to the research project: They fundamentally affected the fine-tuning of methods and also the "sense making" of data.

Evaluating the impact of public involvement in the research:

Details of publications or reports resulting from the research: 'A creative model for recovery from sexual abuse trauma.' The Arts in Psychotherapy 26(4) 247-259. Creative Group Therapy for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Lon: JKP. Article submitted to Qualitative Health Research re- ethics.

Was/is your project user controlled: Not Known

For further information on the project, please contact:
Dr Bonnie Meekums (PhD, SRDMT, MAHPP)
Lead Researcher
Tameside and Glossop Mental Health Services
c/o Psychiatric Day Hospital
Tameside General Hospital
Fountain Street
Ashton-Under- Lyne
OL6 9RW
bonniem@unisonfree.net
0161 331 5082

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