Professor Ephrat Huss chairs an MA in arts therapy for Social work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She has published over 50 articles and 4 books on art therapy and arts based research within social contexts. ., “ What we see and what we say” Using the Arts in Social Research and Practice and– a theory based textbook for teaching art therapy “Figure and Background- Using arts in social work ““Researching creations, creating research: Arts based research in the context of Israeli society” 2012, Ben-Gurion Press. She has also received competitive grants in this field, and is currently working on an ISF grant that explores experiences of Bedouin youth in Israel using arts based methods and salutogenic theories.

 Her overall areas of research are the interface between arts and social work, using arts as a way for accessing the voices of marginalized and arts as self care for social practioners, and as salutogenic coping for populations undergoing cultural transiton and war, conflict negotiation.

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