Applied Arts and Health

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Building Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Education, and Community

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Applied Arts and Health offers fresh insights into research approaches within the arts, focusing on creativity and well-being in education and community development. It explores integrative and multimodal art-based processes across applied arts, health practice, expressive arts therapy, community, and education. The book emphasises art-based research methodology, showcasing art as evidence, and presents a cohesive, international perspective that bridges theory and practice while breaking down silos in the field.
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Ideal for artists, arts educators, expressive arts therapists, community workers, researchers, and healthcare professionals interested in the creative arts' role in health and well-being.

Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. 62 b&w illus.

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Fresh insights into research approaches within the arts, in and for health and well-being.

This forward-thinking collection documents diverse approaches to creative arts engagement, building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development. The book advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes by focusing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community, and education. It aims to give prominence to art-based research and provides useful support to those working and researching across the field.

Bringing together a collection of world-leading authors in the field and spanning a range of cultures, the projects documented in the volume are a significant new addition to cohesive research in this area. In continuing to advance applied arts and health, while furthering a commitment to art-based research, Applied Arts and Health places emphasis upon the artistic research methodology, underscoring that art (performing art and visual art) is the evidence. It offers the field an integral vision for the arts both theoretically and practically.

Further, the book breaks down the silos that have been unhelpful in the development of practice.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Applied Arts and Health is praised for its rich metaphors and comprehensive exploration of the intersection of art and health. Robert Landy highlights its ability to weave together illness, wellness, and creativity, recommending it to artists, educators and therapists alike. Stephen Clift commends the book for laying foundations to build bridges of understanding and collaboration in the field. Overall, the collection is recognised as thought-provoking and a significant contribution to applied arts and healthcare.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789386257

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Illustration: 60 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Ross W. Prior
Edited by Mitchell Kossak
Edited by Teresa A. Fisher

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 290

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Ross W. Prior is Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Prior is best known for his books Teaching Actors and Using Arts as Research in Learning and Teaching (Intellect) and his work in applied arts and health as founding principal editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, first published in 2010.

Professor Mitchell Kossak is a professor and former director in the Expressive Therapies programme at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA as well as a licensed clinical counsellor and registered expressive arts therapist who has presented his work and research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation, psychospiritual and community-based approaches to working with trauma at conferences nationally and internationally. He is the Associate Editor of the international Journal of Applied Arts and Health and author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy.

Teresa A. Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College (City University of New York/CUNY) in the USA. She is the author of Post-Show Discussions in New Play Development (2014), the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Applied Arts and Health (Intellect), and the Producer of New Plays for Young Audiences at New York University.