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Evaluating the impact of participatory art projects for people with mental health needs
- Authors:
- HACKING Sue, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(6), December 2008, pp.638-648.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Participatory art projects for people with mental health needs typically claim outcomes such as improvements in confidence, self-esteem, social participation and mental health. However, such claims have rarely been subjected to robust outcome research. This paper reports outcomes from a survey of 44 female and 18 male new art project participants attending 22 art projects in England, carried out as part of a national evaluation. Outcomes were quantified through self-completed questionnaires on first entry to the project, during January to March of 2006, and 6 months later. The questionnaires included three measures: empowerment, mental health [Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE)] and social inclusion. Paired t-tests were used to compare overall change, and mixed model repeated measures analysis of variance to compare subgroups, including age, gender, educational level, mental health and level of participation. Results showed significant improvements in empowerment, mental health and social inclusion. Participants with higher CORE scores, no new stress in their lives and positive impressions of the impact of arts on their life benefited most over all three measures. Positive impressions of the impact of arts were significantly associated with improvement on all three measures, but the largest effect was for empowerment rather than mental health or social inclusion. This study suggests that arts participation positively benefits people with mental health difficulties. Arts participation increased levels of empowerment and had potential to impact on mental health and social inclusion.
The inclusion web: a took for person-centred planning and service evaluation
- Authors:
- HACKING Sue, BATES Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 13(2), June 2008, pp.4-15.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Supporting communication participation and social inclusion is a key goal of modernised day services by there is a lack of instruments to measure these outcomes. This paper discusses issues around the measurement of social inclusion, presents a pilot study and introduces the Inclusion Web, a strategy to record changes in social networks and environment while supporting the concept of a shared perspective of social inclusion. Two aspects of social and community participation are quantified tallied over eight life domains: people (personal relationships) and places (institutions that matter to the individual).
The place for a contemporary artist with a mental illness
- Authors:
- GWINNER Karleen, KNOX Marie, HACKING Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 8(4), December 2009, pp.29-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Arts participation enhances social inclusion in a way that other social and recovery programmes do not. For many people with a mental illness, arts-based recovery programmes become a vehicle to pursue their art more seriously. This paper aims to reveal the complex boundaries that exist for artists who have mental health needs in contemporary culture, and to review these artists' perceptions of their opportunities to create a place for their creative expression to emerge in its own right, and not on the basis of their illness. The authors comment on the specific issue of public perception, and refer in parts to the apparent question of how such art is perceived and treated. This paper examines the experiences of eight Queensland based visual artists with mental illnesses who contributed to an exhibition entitled Artist Citizen as part of a participatory action research programme. The topics of discussion by the eight artists explore familiar themes to mental health: stigma; exclusion; and the integration of identity within limited membership groups. This paper details the expressed concerns of the artists around the value and connection of their creative output. It should be of interest to mental health service personnel for insight into integration and recovery for people with mental health needs into mainstream social environments.