Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in Creative Arts Therapy / Progress in Mathematics (PDF)

"Everyone involved in clinical trials should read this brilliant much needed book. Through vivid examples, Felicity leads the reader through the highs and lows of delivering a trial, with solutions, and detailed reflections learned from practice. This will appeal to all, across the medical, health, creative and social fields."

-Professor Helen Odell-Miller OBE Anglia Ruskin University

"Felicity Baker offers a detailed account of "how to" implement robust large-scale fully-powered clinical trials that meet the rigor required by funding bodies, high impact journals, and policy makers. This timely book is an asset for novice and advanced researchers alike, across all health professions."

-Professor Hod Orkibi, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel.

"This book offers a guide for creative arts therapists to navigate the world of high quality, multi-disciplinary and world-leading research. Felicity's in-depth understanding of conducting clinical trials will act as a beacon of good practice for any health professional interested in conducting outcome studies in their discipline."

-Professor Vicky Karkou, Edge Hill University, UK

Rarely do creative arts therapy researchers receive adequate training to implement large policy-changing clinical trials. Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in Creative Arts Therapy, addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive guide to successful trial implementation. Chapters guide researchers through key activities including project management, governance consideration, assembling a research team, budget and data planning and monitoring, and participant recruitment. Later chapters focus on the development of a knowledge translation and exchange plan, and commercialisation of intellectual property.