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| Id | 714 | |
| Author | Saavedra J., Arias S., Crawford P., Pérez E. | |
| Title | Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental health problems: art as a means of recovery | |
| Reference | Saavedra J., Arias S., Crawford P., Pérez E.; Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental health problems: art as a means of recovery ;Arts and Health vol:10 issue: 3 page:241.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030853424&doi=10.1080%2f17533015.2017.1381130&partnerID=40&md5=ab59deb64aa01017c169cd2208518ea2 |
| Abstract | Background: In line with recovery theories, psychosocial programmes for people diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) should focus more on well-being and social connectivity outcomes rather than clinical symptoms. This paper assesses the impact of creative workshops participation on the psychological well-being, social connectivity and subjective experience of people diagnosed with SMI. Method: After participating in a creative workshop in a museum, 19 people, including service users, keyworkers, the art facilitator and a psychologist were interviewed. Four observers participated in the workshop and provided information about the creative process by means of a discussion group. Data were analysed in accordance with thematic analysis methodology and triangulated in order to obtain reliability. Results: Five essential categories were identified: learning process, social connection, psychological well-being, institutional change and mutual recovery. Conclusions: Creative activities may cause a transformation of the image of dysfunction associated with mental illness as well as promoting health and recovery. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
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| Undoubtedly, these effects are connected with increasing self-esteem and the time-out phenomenon mentioned in the previous section. . | Conclusions: Creative activities may cause a transformation of the image of dysfunction associated with mental illness as well as promoting health and recovery. . | Giving art as a present or guiding others in a museum visit are activities that motivate, increase their self-esteem and can help re-elaborate their identity. . | The joined-up approaches to participation from community groups, professionals and service users in creative practices in non-clinical contexts could reduce public stigma and improve their psychological well-being (mutual recovery). . | Participants explain how, sometimes, the creative workshops in the CAAC have helped them to meet new people and make new friends that they continue to meet and join in activities with outside the museum. . | According to observers and keyworkers, the dynamic of the workshops allows some users to give new meaning to their life events through the discussions of the artists work. . | Psychological well-being Most users recognise an improvement in their psychological well-being due to their participation in creative workshops. . | Participants were encouraged to create their own artwork. . | The explicit and public appreciation of the artwork produced by the users has an important effect on them. . | This improvement is described in connection with a decrease of stress, a greater ability to relax or escape from their problems. . | This discussion was facilitated by the art facilitator who in some instances asked questions to facilitate reflections and critical thinking. . | This emphasis on discursive and pragmatic aspects, attention training and the effect of release from rumination suggests a value to cognitive rehabilitation through creative practice. . | In summary, the perceived positive impact of creative workshop activities on recovery, their low cost, together with the added potential for mutual benefit to health and social care practitioners, present tentative evidence to recommend the development of creative activities in non-clinical settings (e.g. a museum), and, where possible and feasible in partnership with a varied stakeholder group including people diagnosed with mental disorders.. | Users with more experience participating in the workshops express an increase in their general cultural level and a better knowledge of artists and styles. . | In other words, what is observed here is an interpretive and critical style characteristic of what might be called artistic discourse genre. . | In their opinion, in the groups of users with an intermediate degree of autonomy, there is a more evident improvement in overall health and psychological well-being. . | They found that the vast majority of the studies showed an improvement of psychological well-being, a drop in levels of anxiety and greater satisfaction in life. . |
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