Preliminary Material / Jane Speedy and Jonathan Wyatt -- Introduction to ‘Creative Practitioner Inquiry in the Helping Professions’ / Jane Speedy and Sue Porter -- Introduction to Visual Inquiry / Jane Speedy and Mike Gallant -- Seeing Learning Disability / McClain Percy -- From a Different Perspective / Briege Casey -- Sailing and the Dad Connection / Cindy Gowen -- Dzo Dancing / Dave Bainton -- Introduction to Written Inquiry / Jane Reece and Jane Speedy -- A Life of My Story / Tim Heywood -- Battered Fish out of Water / Mike Gallant -- Cocka Rogie’s Song / Francine Bradshaw -- Sisters, Secrets and Silence / Chris Scarlett -- New Scripts for Old Women / Joyce Ferguson -- Visible Women / Christine Bell -- Writing Back to Life / Donna Kemp -- Introducing Collaborative Ways of Working / Jane Speedy and Sue Porter -- Conversation with Sylvia in Colour / Jane Reece -- Two Men Talking / Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt -- Bare Arsed Stories / Sue Porter -- Encountering ‘Gerald’ / Bristol Collaborative Writing Group -- Epilogue / Jane Speedy and Jonathan Wyatt.

This beautiful volume offers a range of research possibilities for practitioners. Bringing together the work of a community of scholars whose work blurs the edges between the arts and social sciences in the name of practice-based inquiry, Creative Practitioner Inquiry in the Helping Professions offers engaging and accessible exemplars alongside clear explanations of the theoretical understandings and backgrounds to the approaches offered. The book’s contributors are teachers, doctors, social workers, counsellors, psychotherapists, health and community workers and organisational consultants; together they passionately engage in arts-based research as an effective and accessible instrument of inquiry, knowledge dissemination and social change.

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