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| Id | 798 | |
| Author | Gillam T. | |
| Title | Enhancing public mental health and wellbeing through creative arts participation | |
| Reference | Gillam T.; Enhancing public mental health and wellbeing through creative arts participation ;Journal of Public Mental Health vol:17.0 issue: 4 page:148 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85055282533&doi=10.1108%2fJPMH-09-2018-0065&partnerID=40&md5=36760e3cfaf099e96aacc2d67eeaf9b2 |
| Abstract | Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how participation in creative arts activity can enhance public mental health and wellbeing. It is informed by both the author’s clinical practice with service users and carers and by research. Design/methodology/approach: The approach taken is to draw selectively on research in the field of creativity, creative arts and wellbeing, focusing in particular on the use of music and creative writing, and to incorporate learning from clinical experience to explore what is understood about the health and wellbeing benefits of creative arts activity. Findings: There is evidence that creative arts activity is beneficial to mental health and wellbeing. Arts activities that involve active participation appear to offer the greatest benefits. Creative arts participation can help people with diagnosed mental health difficulties to recover from mental illness. Moreover, creative arts activities can also promote wellbeing in the general population. Research limitations/implications: The paper does not provide a comprehensive review of the literature in this field. Practical implications: The paper suggests that if nurses and other mental health professionals are to play a full role in facilitating flourishing then they will need to learn more about using creative arts in practice and will need to become involved and encourage others to do so. Social implications: The paper suggests it is important that creative arts activities should be participatory, so they become a vehicle not only for self-expression but also for participation in groups and communities, increasing connectedness and social inclusion. Originality/value: This paper fulfils a need for a wider understanding of the health and wellbeing benefits of creative arts activity. © 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. |
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| Findings: There is evidence that creative arts activity is beneficial to mental health and wellbeing. . | Creative arts participation can help people with diagnosed mental health difficulties to recover from mental illness. . | Conclusion There is growing evidence that participation in creative arts activities has health and wellbeing benefits for those living with mental health problems and the wider community. . | Since these activities enhance connectedness and improve hope they also support recovery. . | It is important creative arts activities should be participatory so they become a vehicle not only for self-expression but for participation in groups and communities, increasing connectedness and social inclusion. . | Intuitively - and judging by the evidence - participatory arts have great potential for individual and community wellbeing. . | If we apply this to the arts, it is easy to see how participation in arts activities might promote both a positive state of mind and body and a sense of connection with people, communities and the wider environment. . | Social implications: The paper suggests it is important that creative arts activities should be participatory, so they become a vehicle not only for self-expression but also for participation in groups and communities, increasing connectedness and social inclusion. . | Key features in the philosophy of the community music movement include: a belief in providing opportunities for individuals and communities inclusiveness forging links with community settings promoting innovation and participation facilitating access to creativity for people with disabilities potentially providing the means for the resulting music to reach a wider audience. . | Moreover, creative arts activities can also promote wellbeing in the general population. . | They strengthen psychosocial, life and coping skills of the individual increase social support as a buffer against adverse life events Increase access to resources and services that protect mental well-being. . | Their report argued that arts activities could have a therapeutic role and also help people reintegrate into society by increasing self-esteem, confidence and social networks. . | It is concerned with the value of music and the arts, not just to individuals, but to communities. . | Community music organisations act as initiating and developing agencies for innovative participatory music and work towards improving access to music-making. . | This definition also reminds us that there is a responsibility on organisers and facilitators of such activities to ensure people feel safe. . | Along with the therapeutic effects of being creative it aimed to encourage people to develop interpersonal skills through improvisational groupwork. . | Participatory arts are one aspect of the role of arts in health. . |
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