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Winning arts and minds
- Author:
- KNIFTON Lee
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2008, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author, festival director, describes how the Annual Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival evolved and how it creates a more positive image of mental illness.
Arts, creativity and mental health initiative: participatory arts self evaluation approach project report (2007)
- Author:
- GOLDIE Isabella
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Foundation, with support from the National Programme, commissioned a report into the findings of four trial arts therapies services that operated in community settings across Scotland between 2003-2005. The importance of creative and valued activity in improving and promoting mental wellbeing has been well documented. This report presents findings to support this and help push the arts based intervention agenda forwards.
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival - promoting social change through the arts
- Authors:
- CLARKE Pamela, KNIFTON Lee
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 13(3), August 2009, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Now in its third year, The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival is fast becoming a significant cultural annual event, which aims to achieve social change through the arts. Through innovative programming of arts events, the Festival explores the relationship between mental health and creativity, celebrates the artistic achievements of people with experience of mental health issues, and promotes positive mental health and well-being. It aims to promote the rights and recovery of people who experience mental ill health, while exploring mental health and inequalities that affect us all. The multi-arts Festival focuses on audiences' existing interests in film, theatre, comedy, music, literature and visual arts to tackle stigma and engage people.
Arts and social capital
- Author:
- PARR Hester
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2006, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article draws on research conducted with two arts for mental health projects in the two Scottish cities of Dundee and Glasgow, to explore the perceived contribution of arts work to both bonding and bridging social capital. A total of 35 interviews were conducted with clients of the projects and five with paid project staff.
Creative Connections
- Author:
- GOLDIE Isabella
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2006, pp.27-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Creative Connections is a new project, supported by the Mental Health Foundation and the Scottish Executive’s Artfull programme, a Scottish-wide research and practice development project to explore the role of participatory arts in promoting mental health and well-being. The programme will support 20 projects across Scotland representing the broad span of such activities: from community arts, youth and disability projects to artist-in-residence schemes, art therapies and projects delivered in prison and hospital settings. This article outlines the key aims and objectives, and the current evidence suggesting arts and participation of themselves are beneficial to mental health.
Unleashing creativity
- Author:
- McCUE Isabel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2005, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Theatre Nemo is a community theatre company that aims to promote the creative arts in education, but especially for those affected by mental health issues. The theatre is based in Lanarkshire, Scotland and this article looks at some of the projects it has undertaken in prisons and psychiatric hospitals.
Hitting the right note for child and adolescent mental and emotional wellbeing: a formative qualitative evaluation of Sistema Scotland’s ‘Big Noise’ orchestral programme.
- Authors:
- HARKINS Christopher, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 15(1), 2016, pp.25-36.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Previous research emphasises the need for preventative interventions to reduce mental health problems among disadvantaged children and adolescents. There is however little consensus concerning the delivery and impacts of such interventions particularly non-clinical, arts-based models delivered within community settings. The purpose of this paper is to begin to address this deficit through a qualitative assessment of the short- to medium-term impacts to participants’ mental and emotional wellbeing within Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise orchestral programme. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews, observation, participant drawing exercise, participatory filmmaking, focus group and analysis of programme engagement were undertaken to examine the mental and emotional wellbeing impacts of the programme which are observable at this early stage of programme delivery and participants’ lives. Findings: The qualitative findings indicate that participation in the Big Noise programme enhances participant mental and emotional wellbeing in three ways; (1) the happiness and enjoyment of taking part in the programme and orchestra, particularly from music making; (2) the security, belonging and relationships fostered through participation; the quality of musician/participant relationship is important here as is programme design which enables support, routine and structure; and (3) increased pride, confidence and self-esteem, as a result of acquiring difficult musical skills, receiving regular praise and having frequent opportunities to demonstrate these acquired skills through regular orchestral performances. Originality/value: There is little evidence or understanding of community-based, preventative, arts interventions like Big Noise: their delivery, their life-course impacts and their potential contribution to mental health and to addressing social and health inequalities. The causal pathways in the field are under-theorised. These early findings are important as they serve as an important basis from which to consider the programme’s wider and longer term impacts, which will be assessed through an on-going longitudinal, mixed method summative evaluation. (Publisher abstract)
Tackling stigma in schools
- Authors:
- THOMAS Emma, MORGAN Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, April 2006, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Raising young people's awareness of mental health issues is an important first step toward defeating stigma and discrimination. STIGMA is a collaborative project organised by the Inverness Self-harm Forum in an informal partnership with HUG (the Highland Users Group), the NHS Highland department of child and family psychiatry and Eden Court Outreach, which runs theatre groups for young people aged 12-18 across the Highlands. It aims to raise awareness of mental health issues among secondary school children in the Highlands through the use of drama, workshops and classroom discussion. This article reports on the findings from a formal evaluation of the 2005 tour.