Arts therapies for young offenders in secure care-A practice-based research

▶ Best practices for all arts therapies working with juvenile offenders in the area of disturbed self-image, emotions, interaction and cognition. ▶ Best practices that can be used in regular practice. ▶ Best practices that are based on tacit knowledge, practice based evidence and evidence based practice. ▶ One valuable aspect of this study is that it has led to arts therapists from various different institutions and with different backgrounds talking to one another and developing their work. Because so much knowledge taken from practice, theory, and research is integrated by the professionals themselves, there is strong commitment to actual application of the interventions. It is also important that independent experts are involved in discussion of the usefulness and the effect of arts therapies. Arts therapists and experts with a variety of theoretical perspectives exchange views and assist one another in developing the intervention and accounting for its effect.