- Music Therapy and Health
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Edge Hill University
2020-2024
Background There is growing evidence that the arts and arts-based therapies can support wellbeing of healthcare workers. However, there are few large trials, limiting use such in routine practice.
In funded healthcare settings, access to dramatherapy and other arts therapies is limited. Patients suffering the long-term emotional effects of childhood or prolonged trauma are often not helped by short-term therapies. These that engage in diagnostic model with disorder specific research speak little those multiple traumas. This leaves dramatherapists unable reach most need their skills. At same time, survivors left bewildered shamed again as they ‘fail’ benefit from limited symptom...