Creative Practice As Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Well-Being

创造性实践作为相互康复：连接社区以促进心理健康和福祉

• 批准号: AH/K003364/1
• 负责人: Paul Crawford
• 金额: $ 153.31万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK003364%2F1
• 关键词: Creative; Practice; Mutual; Recovery; Connecting

This highly collaborative study aims to examine how creative practice in the arts and humanities can promote the kinds of connectedness and reciprocity that support 'mutual recovery' in terms of mental health and well-being. The idea of 'mutual recovery' extends more inclusively out of the increasingly influential notion of 'recovery' in mental health care which refers to the possibility of achieving a meaningful, more resilient and self-reliant life irrespective of mental health 'symptoms' or disabilities. Typically, however, recovery-based initiatives tend to focus exclusively on people identified as having mental health needs (service users) and overlook how hard-pressed informal carers and health, social care and adult education personnel working in this field may also need to 'recover' or be 'recovered' in terms of their own mental health and well-being. Our central hypothesis is that creative practice could be a powerful tool for bringing together this diverse range of social actors and communities of practice, to establish and connect them in a mutual or reciprocal fashion to enhance mental health and well-being. Such an approach is congruent with 'the new wave of mutuality' identified by Murray (2012), marked by 'renewed interest in co-operation' (p.1), enhancing connections and sharing between distinct or separate groups of people or institutions and 'different ways of involving users, communities and workers' (p.7).Arts and expressive therapies are well-established in mental health services and creative practice (e.g. in visual arts, music, drama, storytelling and so on) has demonstrable potential for a role in advancing mutual recovery in this context. Research has already demonstrated the importance of the arts for 'recovery orientated mental health services', how they provide ways of breaking down social barriers, of expressing and understanding experiences and emotions, and of helping to rebuild identities and communities. With a growing burden of mental ill-health combined with rising costs for the delivery of services, it is timely to investigate how people with mental health needs, informal carers and health, social care and adult education personnel can take new opportunities to build mutually appreciative and substantively connected communities - resilient communities of mutual hope, trust, compassion, equality and solidarity. This five-year study will add a new dimension to existing AHRC-funded health humanities projects. Its substantive arts and humanities led programme of work packages incorporate a social sciences evaluative layer that seeks to advance transformative impacts in policy, provision and practice. Acting as a 'beacon', it will link researchers in the arts and humanities, social and health sciences and third and statutory sector organisations supporting people with mental health needs, in order to generate new forms of social and cultural connectedness that can facilitate mental health recovery. Consistent with the Connected Communities ethos, central themes in this research are the contribution of shared community values and participation to this mutual recovery agenda and the ways in which self-reliance and resilience can be 'co-produced' to support mental health and well-being in community settings. Hence, this ambitious, multidisciplinary research programme will address the AHRC Connected Communities vision through establishing new connections between academic and partner communities in order to enhance research participation, prosperity, sustainability, and health & well-being.

这项高度合作的研究旨在研究艺术和人文领域的创造性实践如何促进各种连通性和互惠性，以支持心理健康和福祉方面的“相互恢复”。“相互康复”的概念更广泛地延伸到精神卫生保健中越来越有影响力的“康复”概念，这是指无论精神卫生“症状”或残疾如何，都有可能实现有意义、更有弹性和自力更生的生活。然而，通常情况下，基于恢复的举措往往只关注被确定为有心理健康需求的人（服务用户），而忽视了在这一领域工作的压力很大的非正式护理人员和卫生、社会护理和成人教育人员也可能需要在他们自己的心理健康和福祉方面“恢复”或被“恢复”。我们的核心假设是，创造性实践可以成为一个强大的工具，将各种各样的社会行为者和实践社区聚集在一起，以相互或互惠的方式建立和连接它们，以增强心理健康和福祉。这种方法与Murray（2012）确定的“新一波相互关系”是一致的，其标志是“对合作的兴趣重新燃起”（第1页），加强不同或独立的人群或机构之间的联系和共享，以及“让用户参与的不同方式”，社区和工人（p.7）.艺术和表达疗法在精神健康服务和创造性实践中得到了很好的应用在这方面，文化艺术（如视觉艺术、音乐、戏剧、讲故事等）在促进共同复苏方面具有明显的潜力。研究已经证明了艺术对于“以康复为导向的心理健康服务”的重要性，它们如何提供打破社会障碍的方法，表达和理解经验和情感，以及帮助重建身份和社区。随着精神疾病负担的日益加重以及提供服务的成本不断上升，现在是时候调查有精神健康需求的人、非正式护理人员以及卫生、社会护理和成人教育人员如何利用新的机会建立相互欣赏和实质性联系的社区-相互希望、信任、同情、平等和团结的弹性社区。这项为期五年的研究将为现有的AHRC资助的健康人文项目增加一个新的层面。其实质性的艺术和人文学科主导的工作包方案包括一个社会科学评价层，旨在促进政策，规定和实践的变革性影响。作为一个“灯塔”，它将连接研究人员在艺术和人文，社会和健康科学和第三和法定部门组织支持人们的心理健康需求，以产生新形式的社会和文化联系，可以促进心理健康恢复。与互联社区的精神相一致，本研究的中心主题是共同的社区价值观和参与对相互恢复议程的贡献，以及自力更生和恢复力可以“共同产生”以支持社区环境中的心理健康和福祉的方式。因此，这个雄心勃勃的多学科研究计划将通过建立学术和合作伙伴社区之间的新联系来解决AHRC连接社区的愿景，以提高研究参与，繁荣，可持续性以及健康和福祉。

项目成果

Creative practice as a mutual route to well-being

创造性实践是通往幸福的共同途径

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Mental Health and Social Inclusion,
• 作者: Argyle, E

Creative practice in a group setting

小组环境中的创造性实践

• DOI: 10.1108/mhsi-04-2015-0014
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Mental Health and Social Inclusion
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Argyle E

Representations of mental health and arts participation in the national and local British press, 2007-2015.

英国国家和地方媒体对心理健康和艺术参与的报道，2007-2015 年。

• DOI: 10.1177/1363459317708823
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: 1997)
• 作者: Atanasova D

Promoting well-being through group drumming with mental health service users and their carers.

• DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2018.1484219
• 发表时间: 2018-12
• 期刊: International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Ascenso S;Perkins R;Atkins L;Fancourt D;Williamon A
• 通讯作者: Williamon A

A Potter's Day: Clay Transformations

波特之日：粘土的转变

• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Ceramic Review
• 作者: Argyle, E