A5031662502- Music Therapy and Health
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
Edge Hill University
2019-2022
Routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression are not always effective. Arts therapies, particularly Dance Movement Psychotherapy, may offer additional therapeutic mechanisms depression. Therefore, client-reported helpful factors from various therapy types, along with client preferences, key in devising new interventions. We present a framework pluralistic "meta-approach" of depression, based on an interdisciplinary thematic synthesis (Thomas, J., & Harden, A. (2008). Methods...
Research over the last decade has identified both strengths and limitations in use of routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression. More recently, a focus on how creative art 'arts prescription' are developing growing recognition their potential additional therapeutic mechanisms depression.In an attempt to develop new intervention depression, this research aligned evidence base surrounding arts prescription movement, collating these with client-reported helpful factors...
Abstract There have been several arguments for the need to generate evidence‐based creative forms of psychological interventions in Improving Access Psychological Services (IAPT), main primary mental health provider hospitals England, UK. In this feasibility study, we sought identify helpful and unhelpful factors a new group psychotherapy, titled Arts Blues. We also wanted find out whether research tools used were acceptable sensitive. therefore engaged seven patients attending an IAPT...