Vicky Karkou

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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Vicky Karkou is a scholar working on Conservation, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vicky Karkou has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Conservation, 40 papers in Social Psychology and 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Vicky Karkou's work include Art Therapy and Mental Health (47 papers), Music Therapy and Health (36 papers) and Diversity and Impact of Dance (22 papers). Vicky Karkou is often cited by papers focused on Art Therapy and Mental Health (47 papers), Music Therapy and Health (36 papers) and Diversity and Impact of Dance (22 papers). Vicky Karkou collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Latvia. Vicky Karkou's co-authors include Bonnie Meekums, Supritha Aithal, Ania Zubala, E Andrea Nelson, Joanne Powell, Zoe Moula, Martina de Witte, Girija Kaimal, Rth Ho and Nisha Sajnani and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Vicky Karkou

63 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

From Therapeutic Factors to Mechanisms of Change in the Creative Arts Therapies: A Scoping Review

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vicky Karkou United Kingdom	19	586	513	378	327	168	69	1.2k
Girija Kaimal United States	20	734 1.3×	491 1.0×	230 0.6×	307 0.9×	96 0.6×	76	1.3k
Susan van Hooren Netherlands	15	320 0.5×	598 1.2×	222 0.6×	413 1.3×	315 1.9×	38	1.2k
Bonnie Meekums United Kingdom	15	300 0.5×	325 0.6×	317 0.8×	208 0.6×	128 0.8×	30	720
Saoirse Finn United Kingdom	9	273 0.5×	421 0.8×	104 0.3×	105 0.3×	91 0.5×	12	873
Helga Noice United States	16	192 0.3×	341 0.7×	313 0.8×	76 0.2×	132 0.8×	30	913
Tony Noice United States	15	184 0.3×	256 0.5×	184 0.5×	46 0.1×	123 0.7×	21	663
Robyn Flaum Cruz United States	16	97 0.2×	202 0.4×	199 0.5×	160 0.5×	209 1.2×	42	845
Lars Ole Bonde Denmark	16	142 0.2×	541 1.1×	45 0.1×	118 0.4×	82 0.5×	131	789
Kenneth E. Bruscia United States	11	144 0.2×	966 1.9×	53 0.1×	310 0.9×	128 0.8×	28	1.3k
Frank Röhricht United Kingdom	22	118 0.2×	271 0.5×	210 0.6×	402 1.2×	564 3.4×	51	1.1k

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2025). Experience of Latvian arts therapists working with Ukrainian refugees: interpretative phenomenological analysis. International Journal of Art Therapy. 1–13.

Karkou, Vicky, Pier Luigi Sacco, Matthew Pelowski, et al.. (2025). Comment on 'Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique' by Skov and Nadal - A critique of the critique: Towards a more nuanced evaluation of current research on the health outcomes of arts-based interventions. Physics of Life Reviews. 54. 147–151. 1 indexed citations

Fletcher, Ken, et al.. (2024). Combining music and dance movement therapy for people with dementia living in the community: A mixed methods feasibility study. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 91. 102226–102226. 1 indexed citations

Liverpool, Shaun, Supritha Aithal, Ciarán Murphy, et al.. (2024). Mental health coping strategies and support needs among marginalised further and higher education students in the UK: A cross-sectional study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). e0000046–e0000046. 2 indexed citations

Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2024). Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0296178–e0296178. 2 indexed citations

Aithal, Supritha, Shaun Liverpool, Rebecca Clark, et al.. (2024). Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JMIR Mental Health. 11. e55500–e55500.

Liverpool, Shaun, et al.. (2024). Preliminary findings on being and becoming: Exploring the experiences of Black Caribbean and African creative arts therapists. Dramatherapy. 45(2). 235–255.

Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2024). Supporting staff wellbeing in healthcare settings through multi-levelled creative psychological intervention – a feasibility study. International Journal of Art Therapy. 31(1). 42–53.

Moula, Zoe, et al.. (2023). Child-focused outcome and process evaluation of a school-based art therapy intervention: A pilot randomised controlled study. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 86. 102085–102085. 1 indexed citations

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Aithal, Supritha & Vicky Karkou. (2023). Arts Therapies Research and Practice with Persons on the Autism Spectrum. Edge Hill University Research Information Repository (Edge Hill University). 3 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2022). The importance of psychological flow in a creative, embodied and enactive psychological therapy approach (Arts for the Blues). Body Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. 18(2). 137–154. 4 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2022). Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists. Journal of Applied Arts and Health. 14(2). 159–174. 2 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2022). Bringing creative psychotherapies to primary NHS Mental Health Services in the UK: A feasibility study on patient and staff experiences of arts for the blues workshops delivered at Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 22(3). 616–628. 7 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2020). Arts for the Blues: The development of a new evidence‐based creative group psychotherapy for depression. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 21(3). 597–607. 12 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2019). Arts for the blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 48(1). 5–20. 22 indexed citations

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Aithal, Supritha, et al.. (2019). Backing the backbones—A feasibility study on the effectiveness of dance movement psychotherapy on parenting stress in caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 64. 69–76. 17 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2018). An Exploratory Study of the Utilisation of Creative Arts Therapies in Treating Substance Dependence. Queen Margaret University Publications Repository (Queen Margaret University).

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Haeyen, Suzanne, et al.. (2018). A thematic synthesis of therapeutic actions in arts therapies and their perceived effects in the treatment of people with a diagnosis of Cluster B personality disorder. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 63. 128–140. 13 indexed citations

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Karkou, Vicky, et al.. (2018). What research evidence is there that dance movement therapy improves the health and wellbeing of older adults with dementia? A systematic review and descriptive narrative summary. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 60. 32–40. 21 indexed citations

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Zubala, Ania, Donald J. MacIntyre, & Vicky Karkou. (2016). Evaluation of a brief art psychotherapy group for adults suffering from mild to moderate depression: Pilot pre, post and follow-up study. International Journal of Art Therapy. 22(3). 106–117. 10 indexed citations

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