Arts in Health (AIH) is “Engaging in the arts can promote prevention of disease and build wellbeing...[It is] about the effect that active engagement can have on the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.”
National Alliance for Arts in Health and Wellbeing
Arts in Health in a nutshell!
National Alliance for Arts in Health and Wellbeing
Arts in Health in a nutshell!
- Uses art, dance, drama, music and play, and any creative activity to bring about a feeling of happiness
- Provides a short term intervention
- Not meant to resolve any underlying issues, but indirectly helps meet challenges in health and social care associated with ageing, loneliness, long-term conditions and mental health
- Proven method of intervention that can bring communities together and assist in social cohesion
- Supplements medication and care through non-medical engagement and can save NHS and the care sector money!
- Participants do not need to be good at the art form - it is about engagement, involvement and participation
- Facilitators do not necessary need qualifications to practice and it remains an unregulated body
Arts therapies in a nutshell!
- An opportunity to work with professionally qualified psychotherapists who can assist in emotional support
- Work over a longer period of time to develop relationships and trust on a one to one or group basis
- Assist with feelings of achievement and increased self-confidence
- Generalising of skills into parts of education and life provision of time and space for individual needs and concerns
- Develop coping mechanisms for stresses that may arise from emotional, behavioural or mental health issues expression and creative outlet that is accessible at any level
- Not rely on the verbal ability to communicate therefore allows for expression through a creative medium
- An arts therapist works with an individual or small group. The therapist’s starting point is the client’s own resources, in all areas of functioning and communication: verbal and non verbal, emotional, spatial, cognitive, creative and spiritual
- All therapists are HCPC registered and belong to a relevant regulatory body
Music Therapy
Music therapy “uses musical components of rhythm, melody, and tonality to provide a means of relating within a therapeutic relationship” (BAMT, 2017)
HCPC registered and members of BAMT – The British association of Music Therapists
www.bamt.org
Play Therapy
“The play continuum shows how different applications of play can deal with a spectrum of children’s emotional, behavioural and mental health problems” (ptuk, 2017)
PtUK registered and members of Play Therapy United Kingdom
www.playtherapyorg.uk
Health Care Professional council (HCPC)
www.hcpc-uk.org
Music therapy “uses musical components of rhythm, melody, and tonality to provide a means of relating within a therapeutic relationship” (BAMT, 2017)
HCPC registered and members of BAMT – The British association of Music Therapists
www.bamt.org
Play Therapy
“The play continuum shows how different applications of play can deal with a spectrum of children’s emotional, behavioural and mental health problems” (ptuk, 2017)
PtUK registered and members of Play Therapy United Kingdom
www.playtherapyorg.uk
Health Care Professional council (HCPC)
www.hcpc-uk.org
How does arts therapy work?
Arts Therapies are "Each art medium can enable clients to communicate in their own way with the therapist and, in-group context, with the other group members. As personal symbolism and metaphor evolve and become interwoven, therapist and client can begin to explore the client's world."
Extracted from The Arts Therapies in Education - 1993, CATE Publication
Art Therapy
Art therapy “uses art media as its primary mode of expression and communication. Within this context, art is not used as a diagnostic tool but as a medium to address emotional issues which may be confusing or distressing” (baat, 2020)
HCPC registered and members of the British Association of Art Therapists
www.baat.org
Dance Movement Psychotherapy
DMP “recognises body movement as an implicit and expressive instrument of communication and...Client/s and therapist engage in an empathic, creative process using body movement and dance. (ADMPUK, 2012)
RDMPS registered and members of The Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK
www.admp.org.uk
Dramatherapy
“Dramatherapy has its main focus in the intentional use of healing aspects of drama and theatre as a therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing that uses action methods to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth (badth, 2011)
HCPC registered and members of the British Association of Dramatherapists
www.badth.org.uk
Arts Therapies are "Each art medium can enable clients to communicate in their own way with the therapist and, in-group context, with the other group members. As personal symbolism and metaphor evolve and become interwoven, therapist and client can begin to explore the client's world."
Extracted from The Arts Therapies in Education - 1993, CATE Publication
Art Therapy
Art therapy “uses art media as its primary mode of expression and communication. Within this context, art is not used as a diagnostic tool but as a medium to address emotional issues which may be confusing or distressing” (baat, 2020)
HCPC registered and members of the British Association of Art Therapists
www.baat.org
Dance Movement Psychotherapy
DMP “recognises body movement as an implicit and expressive instrument of communication and...Client/s and therapist engage in an empathic, creative process using body movement and dance. (ADMPUK, 2012)
RDMPS registered and members of The Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK
www.admp.org.uk
Dramatherapy
“Dramatherapy has its main focus in the intentional use of healing aspects of drama and theatre as a therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing that uses action methods to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth (badth, 2011)
HCPC registered and members of the British Association of Dramatherapists
www.badth.org.uk
