1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health
This comprehensive Handbook defines, surveys, and critiques the burgeoning discipline of arts and health. It brings together the growing evidence base and discusses policy and practice from around the world. Divided into five sections, the Handbook introduces the discipline of the arts and health, explains its importance, and critically examines historical developments, current practice, research theory, and policy.
The first section looks at historical and contemporary approaches to the arts and health, including considerations from global perspectives and discussion of relevant models and frameworks for conceptualising it. The second section provides an overview of the main methods, applications, evidence base, and active ingredients of individual domains of art, such as the performing arts, creative writing, and the visual arts. The third section highlights how the arts are used to help with specific health needs and with specific populations, providing a more detailed overview of research and practice in key areas, such as adult mental health, and working with children and young people. In the fourth section, consideration is given to how the arts can be used and integrated with specific health professions, such as within public health interventions, forensic settings, psychiatry, schools, hospitals, and occupational therapy. The fifth section explores established and emerging theoretical perspectives, debates, and models for understanding the impact of the arts for health, including epidemiological, biological, social, ethical and critical perspectives. The Handbook ends with a discussion of trends, complexities, and future directions in the field.
A comprehensive overview of the expanding research and scholarship in the arts and health, this Handbook is an essential reference for all advanced students, scholars, and practitioners from a wide range of related backgrounds, including the health professions, psychology, education, and the medical humanities.
About the editors
Preface
Introduction: Charting areas of the arts and health
Nicola J. Holt, Sofia Vougioukalou, Victoria Tischler & Elisabetta Corvo
Section One: Historical and Contemporary Contexts of the ‘Arts and Health’
1. History of the Arts in Health
Susan Hogan
2. Positioning the Arts and Health: Models and Frameworks
Jennifer Baxley Lee & Alexandra K. Rodriguez
3. The Role of the Arts in Supporting our Minds, Bodies, Brains, and Behaviours: Updates and Progress since the 2019 WHO Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report on Arts & Health
Daisy Fancourt & Saoirse Finn
4. Global Perspectives on Creative Health
Ranjita Dhital
5. The need for a critical perspective on arts and health research and evidence reviews
Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring & Stephen Clift
Section Two: Domains of ‘Arts and Health’: Impact and Practice
6. Using the Visual Arts and Crafts for Health and Wellbeing: the EPICS framework
Nicola J. Holt, Alison Rouse & Sophie Olson
7. Music, Health, and Wellbeing
Genevieve A. Dingle & Christa Powell
8. Words as Therapy
Christine E. Ramsey-Wade, Claire Williamson, Josie Billington & Carol A. Ireland
9. Dance, Health and Wellbeing
Angela Pickard
10. Theatre, Health and Wellbeing
Nisha Sajnani, Akhila Khanna, Tanya Seshadri, Maitri Gopalakrishna, David Read Johnson, Jermain Johnson, Vasintha Pather & Katharine Low
Section Three: Across the Lifespan: ‘Arts and health’ practice with specific populations
11. Arts and Perinatal Mental Health
Rosie Perkins & Katie Rose Sanfilippo
12. Creativity, Arts and the Mental Health of Young People: Case Exemplars
Katherine M. Boydell, Diane Macdonald, Priya Vaughan & Chloe Watfern
13. From the Edge: Using Expressive Arts for Mental Health Support of Forcibly Displaced People
Lydia Gitau & Caroline Hochstetter
14. Arts in the Context of Trauma
Lynne McCormack
15. Arts and Health in the Context of Adult Mental Health
Hilary Bungay & Ceri Wilson
16. The arts in the prevention and management of chronic health conditions
Jennifer Baxley Lee, Jill Sonke, Seher Akram, Virginia Pesata, Michael Koon Boon Tan & Sanmi Oduntan
17. Arts and Health for Older Adults
Victoria Tischler & Hannah Zeilig
18. End-of-Life Review: Embracing Art, Technology and Culture
Semi Ryu & Beth Collins
Section Four: The Arts within Allied Health and Other Professions
19. Occupational Therapy and Arts
Vanessa Abrahamson, Pat Chung & Nancy Clark
20. Arts in Psychiatry and Mental Health Research: Complex Identities and Interdisciplinary Praxis
Kamaldeep Bhui, Anna Mankee-Williams, Isabelle Butcher, Siobhan Hugh-Jones, Nicola Shaughnessy & Minhua Ma
21. The Arts as a Public Health and Health Promotion Tool
Elisabetta Corvo
22. Arts in Social Prescribing
Nicola J. Holt, Sofia Vougioukalou & Helen Chatterjee
23. Art in Hospital: Beyond the Walls and Wards - Towards Health Creating Policies, Spaces and Experiences to Improve Quality and Care
Marion Lynch, Larissa W. Trinder, Laura Waters, Sandra Gordon, Marcel W. Foster & Nisha Sajnani
24. Arts in Criminal Justice
Laura Caulfield
25. Arts in Educational Settings: The Power of the Arts in Supporting Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing
Penny Hay
26. The Role of Museums and Galleries in Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Chris Jeavons, Nuala Morse & Yanrong Jiang
27. Arts and the Media - Space 22: Television-Based Arts Interventions for Better Mental Health
Katherine M. Boydell, Priya Vaughan, Megan Kalucy, Mark Larsen, Chloe Watfern & Diane Macdonald
Section Five: Theoretical issues and perspectives
28: Building a Meta-Theory on Arts and Health: Determinants, Ingredients, Mechanisms, and Moderators
Daisy Fancourt & Katey Warran
29: The Epidemiology of Arts and Health
Jessica K Bone, Hei Wan Mak, Daisy Fancourt
30: The Psychobiology of Art
Rachel C. Sumner
31: Sociological Theory and Arts and Health
Norma Daykin & Katey Warran
32: Unpacking the Creativity Advantage: Lessons from Psychology on the Benefits of the Arts
Molly Hollinger, Nicola J. Holt & James Kaufman
33. Ethics in Arts and Health Practice
Anita Jensen
34. Research and Evaluation in Arts and Health
Robyn Dowlen
Conclusion: Reflections on the arts and health as a field
Nicola J. Holt, Sofia Vougioukalou, Victoria Tischler & Elisabetta Corvo
Biography
Nicola J. Holt is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the West of England, United Kingdom.
Sofia Vougioukalou is research fellow at the Centre for Adult Social Care and the Centre for Trials research at Cardiff University, United Kingdom.
Victoria Tischler is Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
Elisabetta Corvo is senior lecturer in Health Promotion and Public Health at Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom.
