Psychology's New Design Science and the Reflective Practitioner

by Susan Imholz (Editor), Judy Sachter (Editor)

Overview

We propose that design thinking and design reasoning can play an important role in assisting the field of mental health as it explores what it means to move expertise beyond current health care settings. The clinical literature is comprised of three dominant modes of discussion: a) theory which explores and defines the healing process, b) techniques of psychotherapy, c) case studies by both clinicians and patients reporting on experiences of healing and recovery.  Our book offers a fourth conversation which includes design reasoning as an established means for applying theory and research to mental health treatment and personal growth. Visit our book web site at http://psychologysnewdesignscience.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532361111
Publisher:	S. Imholz
Publication date:	02/15/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Susan Imholz is a scholar, program designer, clinician, and educator interested in technology design constructed and informed by principles of human development and well being. She holds a M.A. in expressive therapy, and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory.
Judy Sachter is an artist and media technologist with extensive teaching experience in art and computer animation. She served as a technical adviser at IBM for 17 years, and holds an M.A. in art education and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory.

Table of Contents

Part I. Design Thinking Under the Influence of Donald A. Schön
Chapter 1 The Debut of the Design Studio in Clinical Training Programs…………..1
by Susan Imholz
Chapter 2 The Lab, The Studio, The Couch: Conversational Settings for Mutually
Guided Design Inquiry……………………………...…………………….16
by Edith Ackermann
Chapter 3 Social Research and Development: Possibilities for Reflective Practice in
Social Work and the Helping Professions…………………………………34
by David Moxley
Part II. Convivial Tools: Creative Inspiration for Making Healing Environments
Chapter 4 Designing an Art Therapy App……………………………………………53
by Nancy Choe
Chapter 5 Designing Transcendence Technology……………………………………68
by Julia Mossbridge
Chapter 6 The Nature of Healing Sound and Its Design ……………...…………..…92
by John Beaulieu
Chapter 7 Illustrating Stories: Using Graphic Novels in Art Therapy Research and
Practice………………………………………………………………....…110
by Natalie Carlton
Chapter 8 Open-Source Design: OpenBCI…………………………………….…....130
by Susan Imholz with Joel Murphy
Part III. Summary & Synthesis of Psychology’s New Design Science
and the Reflective Practitioner
Editors Notes to Chapter 9…………………………………….………………….….145
Chapter 9 CrossTalk Interviews: What Designers Can Learn from Clinicians?
by Susan Imholz, Judy Sachter, John Beaulieu, Natalie Carlton, Nancy
Choe, Julia Mossbridge, and David Moxley…………………………….148
Chapter 10 Summary & Synthesis of Psychology’s New Design Science and the
Reflective Practitioner …………………………………………………..167
by Susan Imholz and Judy Sachter
Index………………………………………………………………………….………184

Editorial Reviews

“Intellectual innovators cannot anticipate what will become of the seeds they sow, but I

think Donald Schön would have been so pleased at this work.....These authors are refreshed by Schön's ideas about the studio...and Schön's ideas are refreshed by their work."

-Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of

Science and Technology, MIT.

"“Psychology’s New Design Science raises important questions for all sectors of human

understanding. Since physical forms influence and shape thought, we might ask how well we are doing ion designing evnironments that positively influence creativity and well-being in relation to new media."

-Shaun McNiff, University Professor, Lesley University, founder of the

Expressive Therapies Program.

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