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Start: a creative approach to mental health care

Journal of Public Mental Health

ISSN: 1746-5729

Article publication date: 1 December 2007

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Abstract

Start Manchester is an arts‐based, face‐to‐face mental health service within the emergent field of arts in mental health. This article describes its work and demonstrates how it uses art in a health‐focused way. While the article refers to some of the literature that explores how and why the experience of art can be beneficial to mental health, it is explicitly written from a practitioner perspective. As such, it foregrounds the thoughts/feelings of the service users (referred to throughout as students) about their engagement with the project, in order to refine our understandings of the links between creative practices and mental health.

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Teall, W. (2007), "Start: a creative approach to mental health care", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 37-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465729200700027

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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