Dr Dominik Havsteen-Franklin
Professor of Practice (Professional Practice) in Arts Therapies
Gaskell Building 071
- Email: dominik.havsteen-franklin@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266060
Summary
Dominik Havsteen-Franklin is a Professor of Practice (Arts Therapies) at Brunel University, with a Ph.D. in Art Psychotherapy and Metaphor. He is also head of the International Centre for Arts Psychotherapies Training (ICAPT) for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Vice President for the European Federation of Art Therapy and a member of the Council for the British Association of Art Therapists. His research focuses on applying empirical methods to investigating and evaluating the use of arts to facilitate changes in health conditions. His recent research has centred on co-designing and investigating Arts-based Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (ADIT) for depression, Creative and Resilience Engagement (CaRE) for frontline healthcare workers, developing arts-based psychosocial practice in South Africa, and is a co-applicant for an NIHR funded large scale RCT (ERA) investigating the effectiveness of arts therapies for heterogenous groups in mental health services. Dominik supervises PhD students from a range of arts disciplines. He also continues to work as a consultant, an art psychotherapist and a clinical supervisor for the National Health Service.
Qualifications
PhD in psychoanalysis
MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development
Accredited Art Psychotherapist, Dynamic Interpersonal Therapist, Mentalization Based Treatment Therapist
Responsibility
Brunel Arts and Humanities with Arts Therapies NHS Partnership
Newest selected publications
Havsteen-Franklin, D. (Accepted) 'A Matter of Dis/Embodied Non/Relating in Art Psychotherapy Practices'. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 9.
Gingrich, O., Havsteen-Franklin, D., Grant, C., Renau, A. and Hignell-Tully, D. (2024) 'Participatory presence–social connectedness through collaborative art practices'. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. pp. 1 - 25. ISSN: 1479-4713
Huss, E. and Havsteen-Franklin, D. (2023) 'Developing a theory of social art therapy: Insights from the context of crisis'. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 85. pp. 102066 - 102066. ISSN: 0197-4556
Havsteen-Franklin, D., Cooper, J. and Anas, S. (2023) 'Developing a logic model to support creative education and wellbeing in higher education'. Cogent Education, 10 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 2331-186X Open Access Link
Havsteen-Franklin, D., de Knoop, J., Agtarap, T., Hackett, S. and Haeyen, S. (2023) 'Evaluation of an Arts Therapies Approach to Team Development for Non-Acute Healthcare Teams in Low Control and High-Pressure Environments'. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 83 (April 2023). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0197-4556 Open Access Link