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Positioning the arts for intervention design research in the human services
David P Moxley1, Holly Feen Calligan2
1Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States.
The arts can enhance human service intervention design by fostering creativity and innovation. Integrating artistic methods allows for deeper understanding and expression of human needs and social issues.
Area of Science:
- Human Services Research
- Intervention Design
- Social Innovation
Background:
- The arts have historically fostered innovation, social cohesion, and integrated aesthetics with technology.
- Human service intervention research can leverage the arts for creativity and innovation in addressing social issues and human needs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To discuss how arts can inform and deepen human service intervention design and development.
- To advance innovation within the human services sector.
- To provide a rationale for including arts in human service intervention design.
Main Methods:
- Examining the contributions of arts to intervention concept formulation.
- Exploring developmental research for intervention improvement.
- Considering how arts can advance reflexivity among intervention designers.
Main Results:
- Arts stimulate expression of first-person experience and experiential knowledge.
- Arts can portray effective ways to meet human needs and educate about social issues.
- Arts facilitate the formulation of intervention strategies and models.
Conclusions:
- Arts integration offers a pathway to enhance human service intervention design and development.
- The inclusion of arts can lead to significant innovation in the human services.
- Researchers can strategically position arts within the nine steps of intervention design and development.
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