Megan Robb
Associate Professor
Megan Robb is the current program director of the art therapy counseling graduate program at SIUE. She received her master's degree in art therapy from The George Washington University as well as further training in Relational Cultural Theory, Motivational Interviewing, and is constantly working towards anti-oppression in the classroom, teaching, service and scholarship.
Professor Robb is a board-certified art therapist, a nationally certified counselor, and is licensed in Missouri and the District of Columbia. Throughout her career, she has worked in a variety of settings, including psychiatric hospitals; special education placements; and mental hospitals, including the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
Informed by her clinical practice, Professor Robb teaches research methodology and research projects, group art therapy and practicum courses. SIUE values the researcher-practitioner model focusing on using research skills in art therapy practice (i.e. observing, documenting, grant writing, etc.).
Professor Robb's research interests include art-based supervision, shame and culturally competent practice, medical art therapy, and group art therapy, on which she has given national and international presentations. Her research is consistently supported through internal and external grants. In 2017, she received the Excellence in Research Award from the American Art Therapy Association, and the Best Paper Award from Taylor & Francis in 2013.
Selected Publications:
Robb, M. A. (2015). An Overview on historical and contemporary perspectives on research in America. In M. Rosal & D. Gussak (eds.) Handbook of Art Therapy, Wiley and Sons.
Robb, M. A. & Miller, A. (2017). Supervisee art-based disclosure in el duende process painting. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Volume 33, #4, 1-10.
Gabel, A. & Robb, M.A. (2017). (Re)considering art therapy group therapeutic factors, The Arts in Psychotherapy, 55, 126-135.
Miller, A. & Robb, M.A. (2017). Transformative phases in el duende process painting art based supervision, The Arts in Psychotherapy, 54, 15-27.
Robb, M. A. (2014). National survey assessing perceived multicultural competence in art therapy graduate students, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Volume 31, #1
Klorer, G. & Robb, M. A. (2012). Art Enrichment: Evaluating a collaboration between Head Start and a Graduate Art Therapy Program, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Volume 29, #4
Robb, M. A. (2012). History of Art Therapy at the National Institutes of Health: Reflection and Future Direction Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Volume 28, #3
