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Mapping arts and mental health projects
- Authors:
- SPANDLER Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 10(3), August 2006, pp.8-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors report on the first phase of a project to map arts and mental health projects in England. The project, commissioned by the Department of Culture Media and Sport in partnership with the Department of Health, aims to evaluate the benefits of arts projects in terms of participants' mental health and how well they promote social inclusion, both in promoting peer friendships and networks and in supporting the development of links with the wider community.
Selling social inclusion through the arts
- Author:
- RIGBY Terry
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 8(3), August 2004, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Exercise on prescription is common, but many primary care trusts are only just becoming aware of the potential of offering parallel access to other activities. Describes the arts on prescription programme running in Stockport for 9 years. Highlights the benefits of co-working between artists and mental health workers, pinpoints issues relating to image and marketing and urges us to consider how we can support people to continue moving forward in their lives.
Mutuality, wellbeing and mental health recovery: exploring the roles of creative arts adult community learning and participatory arts initiatives: research briefing
- Authors:
- LEWIS Lydia, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Wolverhampton
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Walsall
Reports on a study to explore the benefits of mutuality in creative adult community learning (ACL) and community arts settings, how this can impact mental health and wellbeing for those involved, and how the goals of mutuality, wellbeing and mental health recovery affect wider educational goals in adult community learning. The study involved five adult community learning groups in the West Midlands, including a ‘confidence through creativity’ art group (targeted for wellbeing) and a ‘reablement’ art course (targeted for mental health recovery) and two London-based mental health participatory arts organisations. Research methods included interviews and focus groups with adult learners and participants (n=50); practitioners and volunteers (n=16); and wider stakeholders and project organisers (n=10). The findings are discussed across the three main aims to the project. Benefits in participation included opportunities for social connection and the development of relationships of care and support through shared participation in the creative initiatives. Barriers and challenges were also identified, including: professional and organisational boundaries and responsibilities; tension between individualism and communality in the settings; and difficulties surrounding group participation. The report concludes that community-based creative arts adult education and art therapy initiatives are of significant value to a ‘mutual’ recovery and wellbeing and highlights the implications for policy, provision, practice and research. (Edited publisher abstract)
Art in Mind: implementation of a community arts initiative to promote mental health
- Authors:
- STICKLEY Theodore, DUNCAN Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 6(4), December 2007, pp.24-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article explores the role of community arts in combating social and mental health inequalities as exemplified in the project, Art in Mind, in Nottingham, funded by England's New Deal for Communities programme and designed to promote mental health. In describing Art in Mind attention is given to the importance of developing community networks that are designed to build social capital for participating groups and individuals, in order to combat health and social inequalities.