Creativity Wellbeing And Mental Health Practice

Author : Tony Gillam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331974884X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice written by Tony Gillam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that some aspects of mental health practice have become mechanical, joyless and uninspiring, leading to a loss of creativity and wellbeing. A high level of wellbeing is essential to mental health and contemporary mental health care – and creativity is at the heart of this. A greater awareness of everyday creativity, the arts and creative approaches to mental health practice, learning and leadership can help us reinvent and reinvigorate mental health care. This, combined with a clearer understanding of the complex concept of wellbeing, can enable practitioners to adopt fresh perspectives and roles that can enrich their work. Creativity and wellbeing are fundamental to reducing occupational stress and promoting professional satisfaction. Introducing a new model of creative mental health care combined with recommendations for wellbeing, Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice is a practical, evidence-based book for students, practitioners and researchers in mental health nursing and related disciplines.

Author : Olivia Sagan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136740082
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Art Practice and Mental Wellbeing written by Olivia Sagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Art Practice and Mental Wellbeing draws on extensive research carried out with mental health service users who are also practicing artists. Using narrative data gained through hours of reflective conversation, it explores not whether art can contribute to positive wellbeing and improved mental health - as this is now established ground - but rather how art works, and the role art making can play in people’s lives as they encounter crises, relapse, recovery or ‘beyonding’. The book maps the delicate ways in which finding a means to tell our story sometimes is the creative project we seek, and offers a reminder of how intrinsically linked our life trajectories are with creative opportunities. It describes the wide range of artistic activity occurring in health and community settings and the meanings of these practices to people with histories of mental turbulence. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, the book explore the stories and various forms of visual arts practices spoken of, and considers the art making processes, the creative moments and the objects which in some cases have changed people’s lives. The seven chapters of the book offer a blend of personal testimony, theory, debate, critique and celebration, and examine key topics of deliberation within the fields of art therapy, arts in health, community arts practice, participatory arts, and widening participation within arts education. It will be valuable reading for researchers, students, artists and practitioners in these fields.

Author : Stephen Clift
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443896055
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts, Health and Wellbeing written by Stephen Clift and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading UK researchers in the field of arts and health, including creative arts therapies. The chapters are based on presentations originally given at a UK seminar series on scholarship and research on connections between the creative arts, health and wellbeing, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It will be of interest to anyone practising or researching arts and health, in both hospitals and community settings. Because of the nature of the work, the volume is cross-disciplinary in theory and multi-disciplinary in practice. As such, it will appeal to a cross-section of practitioners and thinkers. Research in the field of arts, health and wellbeing has developed considerably in recent years, and in the dialogue of this book some of the big questions for the agenda are addressed.

Author : Daisy Fancourt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789289054553
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is the Evidence on the Role of the Arts in Improving Health and Well-Being written by Daisy Fancourt and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in different countries across the WHO European Region and further afield. This report synthesizes the global evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being, with a specific focus on the WHO European Region. Results from over 3000 studies identified a major role for the arts in the prevention of ill health, promotion of health, and management and treatment of illness across the lifespan. The reviewed evidence included study designs such as uncontrolled pilot studies, case studies, small-scale cross-sectional surveys, nationally representative longitudinal cohort studies, community-wide ethnographies and randomized controlled trials from diverse disciplines. The beneficial impact of the arts could be furthered through acknowledging and acting on the growing evidence base; promoting arts engagement at the individual, local and national levels; and supporting cross-sectoral collaboration.

Author : R. McDonnell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137345489
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Social Support in Mental Health written by R. McDonnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves together service users' lived experiences of mental health recovery and ideas about how creative activities such as art, music, and creative reading and writing can promote it, particularly within social and community settings.

Author : Stephen Clift
Publisher : Oxford Textbooks in Public Hea
ISBN 13 : 0199688079
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing written by Stephen Clift and published by Oxford Textbooks in Public Hea. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes access to Oxford Medicine Online"--Cover.

Author : Ilga Leimanis
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785008811
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketching Perspective written by Ilga Leimanis and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspective is key to visualizing a space and communicating an idea to others. This book explains how to tackle perspective with hand sketching - how to turn a 3D scene into a 2D drawing successfully. Written for a wide range of professionals from architects to set designers, engineers to interior designers, it explains the principles of perspective clearly and how to communicate a vision successfully. Topics covered include: materials and equipment, specifically with drawing on location in mind; observational drawing using the body, arms and hands to help understand the spaces being drawn; perspective constructions for one and two vanishing points for interior and exterior drawings; panoramic views and aerial perspective - how to approach drawing a crowded scene/location; adding detail - whether creating atmosphere and expression, or adding figures for scale and finally, advice is given on drawing imaginatively and how to visualize your thoughts confidently. It is fully illustrated with examples of how to draw perspective in the urban and natural landscape.

Author : Sue Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429784619
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Wellbeing and Psychology written by Sue Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Wellbeing and Psychology unpacks the philosophical and psychological need to understand ourselves through an exploration of historical archives and artistic creativity. This focuses on some practical, evidence-based approaches to developing mental wellbeing. The book uses phenomenological psychology to explore the materials developed by the Stiwdio Arts group and offers an understanding of one’s experiences of their world, recognising that these are embodied and perceived within a temporal and relational place. It offers examples for developing mental health and wellbeing interventions for charities, private care and the NHS. It provides an evidence base for the use of creativity and historical resources in mental health care. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the field of mental wellbeing, nursing and mentalhealth nursing, occupational therapy and social work.

Author : Therese Schmid
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470033800
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Health Through Creativity written by Therese Schmid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. Current values do not give adequate importance to creativity, and the author challenges these values in this book. The book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts of creativity both as individual projects and as groupwork.

Author : Raquel Chapin Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000408337
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Therapy and Creative Aging written by Raquel Chapin Stephenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Therapy and Creative Aging offers an integrated perspective on engaging with older people through the arts. Drawing from the author’s clinical, research and teaching experiences, the book explores how arts engagement can intertwine with and support healthy aging. This book combines analysis of current development theory, existing research on creative programs with elders, and case examples of therapeutic experience to critically examine ageism and demonstrate how art therapy and creative aging approaches can harness our knowledge of the cognitive and emotional development of older adults. Chapters cover consideration of generational, cultural, and historical factors; the creative, cognitive and emotional developmental components of aging; arts and art therapy techniques and methods with older adults with differing needs; and examples of best practices. Creative arts therapists, creative aging professionals, and students who seek foundational concepts and ideas for arts practice with older people will find this book instrumental in developing effective ways of using the arts to promote health and well-being and inspire engagement with this often-underserved population.