Read our latest PSRG blog: blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychologica... Written by Dr Nicola Holt (@drnicolaholt.bsky.social), Associate Professor of Psychology at UWE Bristol, which explores the fascinating content of the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health

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By Nicola Holt From community choirs and dance programmes to arts in hospitals and museums, arts-based activities are increasingly being recognised as valua ...

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Full article: Arts, cultural engagement and health inequalities: critical reflections on the UK Creative Health Review (2023) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arts, cultural engagement and health inequalities: critical reflections on the UK Creative Health Review (2023)

The Creative Health Review (CHR) published in 2023 is an advocacy document by the UK National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The CHR...

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‘So, this feels very different and, you know, kindly’: a mixed methods study of arts on prescription in secondary care academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Check out the new Routledge Handbook of #ArtsAndHealth! 📖 This book brings together insights on evidence, policy and practice — including several chapters authored by our team: Daisy Fancourt, Saoirse Finn, Jessica K Bone, Hei Wan Mak & @kateywarran.bsky.social 💭 www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

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...

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The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health publishes today. The contents of this comprehensive handbook include a chapter co-authored by our Senior Research Fellow, Kam Bhui, 'Arts in Psychiatry and Mental Health Research: Complex Identities and Interdisciplinary Praxis'. https://bit.ly/4hBIzlE

Join us on 18th February at 1 pm for an online webinar with talks from international experts on the use of the arts in public health - sign up here: www.rsph.org.uk/events/the-r...

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Explore the relationship between arts and preventative healthcare.

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At Arts & Health, we publish diverse formats beyond full articles – and our latest brief report perfectly showcases this! Explore all our article types: lnkd.in/g4hrfpzZ Read Bringing health research to life: readers theatre as an innovative knowledge translation strategy: doi.org/10.1080/1753...

What do we mean by ‘creative health’? The benefits of defining ‘creativity’ in the arts and health field: Arts & Health: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What do we mean by ‘creative health’? The benefits of defining ‘creativity’ in the arts and health field

The term “creative health” is increasingly used in the context of “arts and health” programming, evaluation and research. In this comment, I draw on the psychology of creativity to critically exami...

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It is publication day! www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha... Over 60 experts on the arts and health have contributed their expertise to this collection and I really appreciate it and hope it will be useful. Thank you! #artsandhealth

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...

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Now open access: Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 36, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2...

Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study

Background: Reducing anxiety and depression in adolescents is a global health priority. Personal and social resources (e.g., hobbies and socialising) may reduce distress. Yet, there is insufficient...

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Emphasising that the arts are good for one's health, is as imprecise as stating medicine has health benefits. By using generic terms, we risk comparing apples with oranges. Pleased to share this piece co-written with Anita Jensen and Hilary Bungay doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

Frontiers | Apples and oranges? The importance of recognizing heterogeneity in arts and health research publications

Opinion Apples and oranges? The importance of recognising heterogeneity in Arts and Health research publications Introduction Policymakers and practitioners ...

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This new study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco shows art museum programs with medical student volunteers significantly reduced social isolation and improved wellbeing among LGBT older adults in San Francisco. 🎨✨ OPEN ACESS PAPER! READ IT HERE: lnkd.in/gtTuaTrP

Pleased to see that my comment has been published, along with comments by others, too, on Skov and Nadal's critique of arts and health research. I focused on one issue, complexity, and the lack of consideration of this in their analysis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Arts-based interventions: Why It’s Complex, and Why That Matters: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal

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Interested to see our systematic review mentioned in this news article www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Nature Art Prescriptions Support Mental Health in Vancouver

A first-of-its kind partnership in Canada enables clinicians to prescribe a visit to a nature-inspired art exhibition to support patients’ mental health and well-being.

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Excited to see this will be available soon! Very proud to be among the excellent names in one of the most broad and comprehensive tables of contents I've seen in an academic collection. Congratulations, @drnicolaholt.bsky.social and colleagues!

The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health has a release date :) www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

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...

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New on the Psychological Sciences Research Group blog: The use of the arts within social prescribing is expanding globally. But, what is art on prescription and what does the research on its efficacy suggest? blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychologica...

NEW ARTICLES: Enjoy three recently published articles which show a diversity of creative practices in healthcare, demonstrating the growing implementation of arts interventions across different populations and healthcare contexts. lnkd.in/gU5aHJtA lnkd.in/ggEDxsPq lnkd.in/gYYF2Bka

Stress levels are high for university students and they are at a high risk of poor wellbeing and mental health, particularly at exam times. Have you considered colouring with your cohort? We revisit a project exploring colouring for university student wellbeing. dx.doi.org/10.1080/1753...

This international women's day we are looking back at three important research papers which centre the lived experiences and creativity of women. Join us in revisiting: --> Am I Broken? lnkd.in/gV3ap_eB --> "The power of the poem" lnkd.in/gK38qUQS --> "Like a drawing of a breath" lnkd.in/gsm-zuq9

NEW ARTICLE! This paper explores the experiences and transition of a relational arts Academy to a virtual space for community artists with dementia from researchers at the University of Waterloo. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

It's World Social Prescribing Day! To celebrate we have dived in to the Arts & Health archive to share two important papers you should revisit. --> lnkd.in/g9Girey6 --> lnkd.in/e4CeMM7x

Happy to have sent the Routledge Handbook of Arts & Health to the publisher this morning - I hope that the copyediting stage goes smoothly. Thanks to all of the authors for their work and for helping to create such a comprehensive overview of the field.

Art on prescription for health and wellbeing - a systematic review: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Frontiers | The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis

IntroductionThe evidence-base for the impact of participating in the arts for different aspects of health and wellbeing is growing. Arts on Prescription has ...

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We have a systematic review of arts on prescription published: The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis - www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

New paper on adolescent wellbeing and daily life: Do daily happiness and nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities?: an experience sampling study preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732

Do daily happiness and nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities?: an experience sampling study

Background: Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) have been used in clinical research to collect data on emotional and behavioural states in real life contexts among different populations. Although...

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Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

NEW ARTICLE! Dance harnesses humanity in exercise from University of Toronto researchers Caitlin Elmslie, Lara McCallion, Julie Vaughan-Graham and Kara Patterson. Read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2025.2461687

Busy writing the Introduction and Contents page for the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health - it is really coming together - still a lot of organising to do in the final weeks, but I'm very grateful for everyone's contributions and expertise as I begin summarising it all.

Funny that this is my highest scoring article and 11th top scoring in the journal Art Therapy. I think it's because colouring is so accessible and so shared as a stress reduction technique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... routledge.altmetric.com/details/6528...

We have a systematic review of arts on prescription published: The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis - www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Frontiers | The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis

IntroductionThe evidence-base for the impact of participating in the arts for different aspects of health and wellbeing is growing. Arts on Prescription has ...

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