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Book SynopsisCase studies and perspectives from around the globe illustrate examples of effective collaborations between clinical creative arts therapists and arts in health practitioners. Reaching beyond silos, these professionals can collaborate to deliver inspirational practice in a variety of settings. Leading experts explain how they have pioneered arts-based practice, developed successful partnerships and overcome difficulties in fostering relationships to offer better support and increase access to their services by the public.
Discussions surrounding policy, funding and international initiatives towards integration offer a timely call to action. By working together, we reach collective goals of positively impacting clients' mental health, wellbeing and quality of life through the arts.
Trade ReviewThis engaging collection lays out a compelling argument for the unique and exciting potential of the arts to improve health and well-being. -- Renée Fleming, soprano and arts & health advocate
Everyone helping others through the arts - therapists, educators, artists, in hospitals and communities - are natural allies. Welcome to 'an idea whose time has come.' -- Judith A. Rubin, Art Therapist, Author and Filmmaker
A timely book showing the role that the complementary sectors of arts and health and arts therapies can play together to improve health and wellbeing. -- Dr Daisy Fancourt, University College London & Director, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Arts & Health
This ground-breaking book shows just how much more of the vast potential of arts and health is revealed through collaboration between practitioners in the field, than when any of us attempt single perspective approaches. -- Dr Neil Springham, consultant art therapist and executive director of therapies at Oxleas National Health Service foundation Trust
Table of ContentsForeword by Lord Howarth of Newport
1. Introduction Unifying and Promoting the Arts for Health and Wellbeing by Donna Betts and Val Huet
2. Global Contributions of the Arts Therapies and the Arts to Health and Well-Being During the Pandemic: Embracing New Ways of Caring by Vicky Karkou, Nisha Sajnani, Felicity A Baker and Azizah Abdullah
3. Mutual Support? What Do the Creative Arts Therapies and Creativity and Culture for Health and Wellbeing Bring to Each Other? by Victoria Hume
4. Educating Artists and Administrators to Engage the Arts for Health and Well-Being in Healthcare and Community Settings by Patricia Dewey Lambert, Jenny Baxley Lee and Jill Sonke
5. Navigating Identities within Arts in Health in Singapore: Reflections and Recommendations for Collaborative Art and Art Therapy Practices by Karen Koh and Sze-Chin Lee
6. Creative Forces®: The Continuum of Clinical Creative Arts Therapies to Community Arts Engagement for Military-Connected Populations by Rebecca Vaudreuil, Hannah Jacobson Blumenfeld, and Melissa Walker
7. Creative Arts Mentorship and Vocational Rehabilitation in a Forensic Psychiatric Community by Jaimie Peterson and Alison Etter
8. Studios of Life: Outsider Art at School by Pamela Whitaker
9. Exhibitions Through Arts and Arts Therapy: From Empathic Understanding to Advocacy by Rainbow T.H. Ho and Jordan S. Potash
10. Eudaimonia: Museum Programs as Agents of Change, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens by Elisabeth Ioannides and Marina Tsekou
11. Exhibitions and Immersive Spaces as Therapeutic Settings that Promote Heath, Education and Well-being by Girija Kaimal, Susan Magsamen, Melissa S. Walker, Heather Spooner, Bani Malhotra and Stephen Legari
12. Sowing the Seeds of Art Therapy in India: One Seed at a Time by Sangeeta Prasad, Susan A. Anand, Girija Kaimal and D. Sumathi
