CO-CREATING SAFE SPACES (CCSS) – THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ART THERAPY CLINICAL PROTOCOL FOR REFUGEE AND ASYLUM-SEEKING CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS.
Principal Investigator: Nehama Grenimann Bauch
APPROVAL HAS BEEN GRANTED FOR THIS STUDY TO BE CARRIED OUT BETWEEN 17/05/2022 AND 30/12/2024
Collaborate with the research!
For organizations and professionals working with refugees and asylum-seekers
What do you receive from collaborating?
Empowering participants:
The sessions have been planned to be informative and interesting (and hopefully even fun!) for the participants, to allow them to express their perspectives about parental engagement in art therapy and about their own needs within this context. It may give the participants a sense of contributing to an important cause and of being heard, with the potential of feeling empowered and validated.
Recruiting long-term participants: It is hoped that the activities and the joint recruitment efforts will assist you in gaining more regular, or even new, engaged participants.
Offered training and support:
I will offer preparation sessions to any assisting team members and language/cultural interpreters who wish to be involved, which will include practical information and training that will contribute to their skills related to group facilitation, working with parents, art therapy, research, and the evaluation of interventions.
Additional support:
I will gladly offer an additional lecture/ workshop/ training session/ guidance on topics related to the research for your team (subject to our negotiation regarding your needs and my availability).
Evaluation of needs and interventions: Preliminary data (that isn't confidential) will be shared with you as soon as possible and you will be able (and welcomed) to use this information within the implementation of your psychosocial programs. This anonymized data may assist you and your organization in evaluating your participant’s needs and the quality and relevance of the interventions provided to them.
Practical tools: The developed logic model is expected to provide clarity regarding guidelines for your psychosocial team, specific activities that can be used when working with parents in this context, and methods to evaluate your interventions.
Larger-scale impact: By sharing your view of the developed logic model through acceptability surveys, you will be able to contribute your unique experience-based knowledge and thus impact the final published outcome. Your contribution to this process will help me produce quality evidence-informed material that can then be useful to you and your organization when approaching funders and policymakers. The findings will also contribute to the ability to further research the effectiveness of arts-based interventions for this population.
Participatory approach:
As collaboration partners, it will be your choice to decide if you want to be mentioned in future publications and material and we can discuss the most appropriate way to do so. I am open to involving anyone interested in a deeper collaboration by becoming co-producers (for example co-authoring publications, being mentioned in publications, theorizing, co-developing the final logic model, or co-developing and facilitating training sessions or any other suggestion you may have).
How can you help?
Recruitment and interpreting:
Recruiting language/cultural interpreters and participants for refugee/ asylum-seeking parents’ focus groups.
Co-facilitation:
Relevant interpreters from your team are invited to co-facilitate the groups while ensuring they do not know the participants and sign confidentiality forms.
Further Psychosocial Support:
Offering or referring participants to receive additional psychosocial support if they feel the need for it.
Filling surveys:
You and your colleagues will be asked to participate in an acceptability study – this will be a survey that shouldn’t take long to fill.
Art Materials: Organizing art materials for the six sessions (optional).
I look forward to hearing from you!
nehama.grenimannbauch@brunel.ac.uk