Call for audio-image recordings
Call
InSight – Spring 2024
Audio-image recordings (AIRs) are short videos that document someone’s experience of art therapy. In this article, we look at what they are and why they are useful.
What are AIRs?
AIRs are a recorded conversation between a client and a therapist, edited to images and/or video of the client’s artwork made during art therapy. The best introduction what an AIR is, is to watch one!
Why we need AIRs
AIRs are a unique resource to art therapy. They allow a service user to articulate their experience through their own words and artwork. They can be a powerful documentation of the impact art therapy can have on someone’s life and wellbeing.
They also help:
- add an additional layer of reflection in the art therapy sessions
- share good practice and learning
- show potential service users what art therapy is
- advocate for the value of art therapy to decision makers
Last year we ran a free CPD for members to show how AIRs are being used in research. If you’re a member, you can watch this CPD event on demand in our members’ CPD library.
Guidance and templates
If you’re one of our members, you can access guidance and templates to support you in making audio-image recordings.
What we need
As part of our increasing activity in promoting art therapy, we are looking for AIRs from our members that show the benefits for particular client groups or clients struggling with a certain challenge or diagnosis. These include but are not limited to:
- self-harm
- psychosis
- cancer
- depression
- autism
How to submit an AIR
To submit an AIR made by you and your art therapy service user please:
- Ensure that you have followed the guidance to obtain fully informed consent
- Edit the video to be no more than 3 minutes long
You can then submit your AIR by email to hello@baat.org. Your submission email must include:
- Your name and membership number
- A downloadable video link to your AIR
- Captions on the video
- Transcription attached of all dialogue in the video
- Up to 100 words about the video stating why the service user came to art therapy, what name we should use to refer to them and if this is a pseudonym, and confirmation of informed consent