Case studies and perspectives from around the globe illustrate examples of effective collaborations between clinical creative arts therapists and arts in health practitioners. Reaching beyond silos, these professionals can collaborate to deliver inspirational practice in a variety of settings. Leading experts explain how they have pioneered arts-based practice, developed successful partnerships and overcome difficulties in fostering relationships to offer better support and increase access to their services by the public. Discussions surrounding policy, funding and international initiatives towards integration offer a timely call to action. By working together, we reach collective goals of positively impacting clients' mental health, wellbeing and quality of life through the arts.
Dr. Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC, holds a PhD in Art Education and Art Therapy from Florida State University (2005) and has been a Board Certified art therapist since 2002. From 2018 - 2022 Dr. Betts was Clinical Research Director for Creative Forces (R) National Endowment for the Arts Military Healing Arts Network in the United States. She served as President of the American Art Therapy Association (2015 - 2017) and was a professor in the George Washington University Graduate Art Therapy Program (2009 - 2018). An award-winning researcher and author, Dr. Betts has lectured internationally on a range of topics. Through involvement with various organizations working to increase access to the arts in Canada and abroad, Dr. Betts continues to promote the power of the arts in improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of all people. Dr. Val Huet is an art therapist, a group psychotherapist, and an organisational consultant. Her PhD addressed art therapy for work-related stress. She currently focuses on developing art therapy research.
Foreword by Lord Howarth of Newport 1. Introduction Unifying and Promoting the Arts for Health and Wellbeing by Donna Betts and Val Huet 2. Global Contributions of the Arts Therapies and the Arts to Health and Well-Being During the Pandemic: Embracing New Ways of Caring by Vicky Karkou, Nisha Sajnani, Felicity A Baker and Azizah Abdullah 3. Mutual Support? What Do the Creative Arts Therapies and Creativity and Culture for Health and Wellbeing Bring to Each Other? by Victoria Hume 4. Educating Artists and Administrators to Engage the Arts for Health and Well-Being in Healthcare and Community Settings by Patricia Dewey Lambert, Jenny Baxley Lee and Jill Sonke 5. Navigating Identities within Arts in Health in Singapore: Reflections and Recommendations for Collaborative Art and Art Therapy Practices by Karen Koh and Sze-Chin Lee 6. Creative Forces (R): The Continuum of Clinical Creative Arts Therapies to Community Arts Engagement for Military-Connected Populations by Rebecca Vaudreuil, Hannah Jacobson Blumenfeld, and Melissa Walker 7. Creative Arts Mentorship and Vocational Rehabilitation in a Forensic Psychiatric Community by Jaimie Peterson and Alison Etter 8. Studios of Life: Outsider Art at School by Pamela Whitaker 9. Exhibitions Through Arts and Arts Therapy: From Empathic Understanding to Advocacy by Rainbow T.H. Ho and Jordan S. Potash 10. Eudaimonia: Museum Programs as Agents of Change, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens by Elisabeth Ioannides and Marina Tsekou 11. Exhibitions and Immersive Spaces as Therapeutic Settings that Promote Heath, Education and Well-being by Girija Kaimal, Susan Magsamen, Melissa S. Walker, Heather Spooner, Bani Malhotra and Stephen Legari 12. Sowing the Seeds of Art Therapy in India: One Seed at a Time by Sangeeta Prasad, Susan A. Anand, Girija Kaimal and D. Sumathi
Increasing access to the arts in support of health and wellbeing for all people through collaboration and inspirational practice across the clinical creative arts therapies disciplines and the arts in health field is the focus of this book authored by international experts
