Start: a creative approach to mental health care
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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Citation
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
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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