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About Ingrid

Ingrid Pénzes PhD., is an art therapist and mental health scientist and holds a doctorate in social sciences focusing on the relationship between the art form and mental health. After almost 20 years of teaching art therapy and leading an arts therapies program in the Netherlands, she has been an independent writer, researcher and lecturer since 2021 at Where Art meets Health. Her primary mission is to translate scientific knowledge into education and practice, providing training, research and assessment for institutions, companies and professionals.

Based on the findings of her PhD and brain research, she developed the ArTA method for art therapy assessment, wrote several books about it and trains art therapists and art therapy educators.

Publications

  • Pénzes, I. (2024). Art therapy observation and assessment in clinical practice. The ArTA method. Routlegde.

  • Pénzes, I., Engelbert, R., Heidendael, D., Oti, K., Jongen.E.M.M. & Van Hooren, S. (2023). The influence of art material and instruction during art making on brain activity: A quantitative electroencephalogram study, The Arts in Psychotherapy, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2023.102024

  • Pénzes, I. (2022). ArTA. Een evidence-based methode voor beeldend therapeutische observatie en diagnostiek in de klinische praktijk. Where Art meets Health. 

  • Pénzes, I., Verwey, R., Werrij, M., Bokhorst, M, Rossum, E. van & Bours, G. (2021). Wetenschappelijke integriteit in het hbo onderzoeksonderwijs [Scientific Integrity in Research Eduction in Universities of Applied Sciences]. Onderwijs & Gezondheid, 6, 20-23. 

  • Pénzes, I. (2020). Art form and Mental health. Studies on art therapy observation and assessment in adult mental health. (Doctoral Dissertation). Nijmegen: Behavioural Science Institute. 216188.pdf (ru.nl)

  • Pénzes, I., Hooren, S. van, Dokter, D. & Hutschemaekers, G. (2020). Formal elements of art products indicate aspects of mental health.  Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers | Formal Elements of Art Products Indicate Aspects of Mental Health | Psychology (frontiersin.org)

  • Pénzes, I. (2020). Art Works. Een (werk)boekje ter kennismaking met beeldende therapie. [Art Works. A (work)book to introduce art therapy]. Ede; GVO.

  • Pénzes, I., & Willemsen, M. (2020). Trending topic: MOOV-on: Openstellen en verduurzamen van ‘state of the art’ onderwijs onderzoekend vermogen in het vaktherapeutisch onderwijs [Trending topic: MOOV-on: Opening up and sustaining 'state of the art'  education in research in arts therapies education]. Tijdschrift voor Vaktherapie, 16(1), 12-13.

  • Pénzes, I., Hooren, S. van, Dokter, D. & Hutschemaekers, G. (2018). How art therapists observe mental health using formal elements in art products: structure and variation as indicators for balance and adaptability. Frontiers in in Psychology. Frontiers | How Art Therapists Observe Mental Health Using Formal Elements in Art Products: Structure and Variation as Indicators for Balance and Adaptability | Psychology (frontiersin.org)

  • Pénzes, I. (2017). De tijd is rijp…[The time is right...]. Tijdschrift voor Vaktherapie, 13(4), 3-5

  • Fikke, D., Pénzes, I. & Hooren, S. van (2017). Het Expressieve Therapies Continuüm [The Expressive Therapies Continuum]. Tijdschrift voor Vaktherapie, 13(2), 2-11

  • Claessens, S., Annemans, F., Pénzes, I. & van Hooren, S. (2016). Meetinstrumenten in de beeldende therapie. Een inventariserend onderzoek naar de kennis en het gebruik van meetinstrumenten [Measurement tools in art therapy. An inventory study of the knowledge and use of measurement instruments]. Tijdschrift voor Vaktherapie, 12(1), 27-34.

  • Pénzes, I., Hooren, S. van, Dokter, D., Smeijsters, H. & Hutschemaekers, G. (2015). Material interaction and art product in art therapy assessment in adult mental health. Arts & Health, An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 8(3), 213-228. doi: 10.1080/17533015.2015.1088557. (2) (PDF) Material interaction and art product in art therapy assessment in adult mental health (researchgate.net)

  • Pénzes, I., Hooren, S. van, Dokter, D., Smeijsters, H. & Hutschemaekers, G. (2014). Material interaction in art therapy assessment. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 41, 484-492. doi: 10.1016/j.aip.2014.08.003 (2) (PDF) Material interaction in art therapy assessment (researchgate.net)

  • Pénzes, I. (2014). Woensdagmiddag half twee…[Wednesday afternoon at one-thirty...]. In: H. Smeijsters (2014). Kunsten van het leven. Voorbeelden uit de creatieve therapie. [Arts of life. Examples from creative therapies. Practice book]. Praktijkboek. Utrecht: Veen.

  • Pénzes, I., Gielen, X., & Beurskens, S. (2012). Kritisch opleiden. Evidence-based practice in de bachelor opleiding Creatieve Therapie van Zuyd Hogeschool.[Critical education. Evidence-based practice in the undergraduate Creative Therapies program at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences]. Tijdschrift voor Vaktherapie, 8(3), 29-35.

  • Smeijsters, H., Beurskens, S., Reverda, N., Gielen, X. & Pénzes, I. (2012). Het Evidence Beest in de vaktherapie; een verheldering van de begrippen Evidence Based Practice en Practice Based Evidence.[The Evidence Beast in creative arts therapies; a clarification of the concepts of Evidence Based Practice and Practice Based Evidence]. Tijdschrift voor Vaktherapie, 8(2), 11-18

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