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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Amazing 🤩 - I have found thousands of people who oppose NHS privatisation on Bluesky already!! 😮💙🌟 If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you follow me and repost this, and I’ll follow you back? Let’s see how far this can go Bluesky!….. 🤞

Enjoying writing a book chapter on the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing for the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health. I have organised the content into the following areas - and know much more about some of these than others!

My <body> is ready

Want to know what’s happening with social prescribing in Australia? Read on dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Looking forward to read the special issue on Global Creative Health in Perspectives in Public Health and pleased to see our practice report about evaluation for our Kashmir project included artofhealing.org.uk journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to share new paper using the experience sampling method exploring which everyday activities improve the moods of adolescents (incl. the arts, sport, socialising), and looking at the impact for those with and without symptoms of depression and anxiety. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2...

The Lone Ranger in Covid Town Dr Aspa Paltoglou, a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, on continuing to take pandemic precautions. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Poetic synthesis – a ‘special language’ for research. Katharine Slade, a PhD Student at Aston University, on using ‘research poetry’ with qualitative data in health psychology. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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...

Our report on Thriving Communities Bristol piloting arts for health interventions with diverse communities, led by CreativeShift & Lerato Dunn, funded by Arts Council & NASP. Insights for practice and lovely qualitative research on impact. uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11603...

Pleased to share a new paper from the healing arts in Kashmir project (artofhealing.org.uk), led by Emma Brannlund, In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir - 2024 (sagepub.com)

Visualizing the academic network around 'art on prescription' @connectedpapers. Check out the graph to see works related to this topic! www.connectedpapers.com/main/53ab5ce...