Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery - Birth Shock!

这项申请后续资金的影响和参与有关的艺术和人文研究理事会的项目称为出生项目，作为相互恢复联盟的创意实践的一部分(赠款参考。A/K003364/1)。生育项目特别感兴趣的是在参与性艺术框架内探索妇女的生育主观体验和利用艺术向母亲过渡(Hogan 2017)。该项目还探索了在社会环境中进行的艺术实践如何促进心理健康恢复，并防止分娩专业人员的同情心疲劳。作为出生计划的结果，围绕出生的多重话语和视角被揭示和捕捉在一系列吸引人的短片中。这一后续项目的目的是利用原版电影作为教育资源的一部分，开发并用于卫生和医疗专业人员的正式培训，以加强培训，特别是在鼓励受训者反思和移情思考方面。此外，这项提议是通过在电影节上向参观者放映电影来瞄准新的非学术观众。此外，该项目将通过适当的数字平台在国际上推广电影。该项目旨在增强出生项目的影响力，并提高其参与能力。显然有必要扩大该项目原来的职权范围，因为在其执行过程中出现了对新受众的考虑。最初的目的是探索创造性的方法如何有助于阐明分娩的经历和创伤，以及艺术如何调解参与其中的人的康复，并探索康复过程中的相互关系。对我们项目产生的视觉输出的参与挑战了医疗和卫生专业人员对分娩及其影响的假设。随后有证据表明，这种认知上的变化导致他们下定决心，改变他们练习的方式，以防止或减轻情绪和其他创伤。具体地说，对自我报告数据的试行主题分析表明，从电影中接触到母亲观点的专业人员显示出对产前和产后护理的复杂性的更多理解，包括对患者观点的更多欣赏。医科学生指出，听到女性的故事让分娩的经历“看起来非常真实，完全不像我们学到的那样临床和机械”。其他评论反映了对分娩可能对女性生活产生的“持久影响”的理解，以及对分娩女性的“思想和情感”的新发现的“同理心”和欣赏。值得注意的是，有了更多的能力，超越了与病人的关系，意识到病人的个性。大多数项目数据表明，需要增加观众对项目电影的参与度。事实上，参与这项研究的卫生专业人员经常表示，他们需要母亲的观点来指导实践。他们经常在评论中建议将这部电影作为他们培训的一部分，以便为实践提供信息(这些电影已经被他们试行的国王学院采用)。为了回应这一需求，我们寻求理事会的支持，聘请一名专门致力于这一后续项目的研究人员。这个人将负责与英国各地的相关健康和医学院联系，安排和安排电影观看以及讨论和分析会议。她或他还将进入相关的电影节，并与首席调查员一起接受公众讨论。研究人员将综合拟议影响分析的结果，并对整理后的结果撰写摘要。我们预计这一职位将持续一年。

This application for Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement relates to an Arts and Humanities Research Council project called The Birth Project, part of the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery consortium (grant ref. AH/K003364/1). The Birth Project has been particularly interested to explore women's subjective experience of birth and the transition to motherhood using the arts, within a participatory arts framework (Hogan 2017). The project has also explored how artistic practices, conducted in social settings, may promote mental health recovery, and guard against compassion fatigue for birthing professionals. As an outcome of the Birth Project, the multiple discourses and perspectives surrounding birth were revealed and captured in a series of short and engaging films. The aim of this follow on project is to use the original films as part of an educational resource to be developed and used in the formal training of health and medical professionals in order to enhance training, especially with respect to encouraging reflective and empathetic thinking on the part of trainees. Additionally, the proposal is to target new non-academic audiences by showing the films at film festivals to their attendees. Further, the project will promote the films internationally via appropriate digital platforms.This project aims to enhance the impact of the Birth Project and to increase its capacity for engagement. There is a clear need to extend the original remit of the project because during its implementation considerations for new audiences emerged. The original intention was to explore how creative approaches could help articulate the experience and trauma of childbirth and how art can mediate the recovery of the persons involved in it and explore mutuality in recovery processes. Engagement with the resulting visual outputs from our project challenged assumptions that medical and health professionals held about childbirth and its impact. Evidence then showed that this change in perception led to a resolution on their part to change the ways they practice in order to prevent or mitigate emotional and other trauma. Specifically, piloted thematic analysis of self-report data showed that the professionals who were exposed to mothers' perspectives from the film showed an increased understanding of the complexity of pre and postnatal care including increased appreciation of the patient's point of view. Medical students pointed out that hearing women's stories made the experience of childbirth 'seem very real and not at all as clinical and mechanical as we are taught'. Other comments reflected an understanding of the 'lasting effect' that childbirth can have on women's lives and a newfound 'empathy' and appreciation of the 'thoughts and emotions' of labouring women. Significantly, there was an increased capacity to go beyond patient relatedness and become aware of patient personhood.The majority of the project data pointed to a need for increased audience engagement with the project films. Indeed, the health professionals who were involved in the study often identify themselves the need for the mothers' perspective to inform practice. They often recommend in their comments that the film becomes part of their training to inform practice (and the films have been adopted by King's College where they were piloted). Responding to this need we seek the council's support to employ a researcher who will be solely dedicated to this follow-up project. This person will be responsible for making contact with relevant health and medical schools across the UK, arranging and setting up film viewings and discussion and analysis sessions. She or he will also enter the film into relevant festivals and be available for public discussion along with the principal investigator. The researcher will synthesise the results of the proposed impact analysis and write a summary of the collated results. We anticipate that the position will last a year