Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery - Birth Shock!

本申请后续资金的影响和参与涉及一个艺术和人文研究理事会项目称为出生项目，作为相互恢复财团的创造性实践的一部分（资助参考AH/K 003364/1）。出生项目一直特别感兴趣的是探索妇女的主观经验的出生和过渡到母亲使用艺术，在参与式艺术框架（霍根2017）。该项目还探讨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疲劳。作为出生项目的一个成果，围绕出生的多种话语和观点被揭示并捕捉在一系列引人入胜的短片中。这一后续项目的目的是利用原始电影作为教育资源的一部分，在卫生和医疗专业人员的正式培训中开发和使用，以加强培训，特别是鼓励受训人员进行反思和换位思考。此外，该提案还将通过在电影节上向与会者放映电影来瞄准新的非学术观众。此外，该项目还将通过适当的数字平台在国际上推广这些电影，旨在加强“出生项目”的影响，并提高其参与能力。显然需要扩大该项目的原有范围，因为在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帮助表达分娩的经历和创伤，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。参与我们项目产生的视觉输出挑战了医疗和卫生专业人员对分娩及其影响的假设。证据表明，这种观念的变化导致他们决定改变他们的实践方式，以防止或减轻情感和其他创伤。具体而言，自我报告数据的试点主题分析显示，从电影中接触母亲观点的专业人员对产前和产后护理的复杂性有了更多的了解，包括对患者观点的更多赞赏。医学生指出，听女性的故事让分娩的经历“看起来非常真实的，一点也不像我们被教导的那样临床和机械”。其他评论反映了对分娩可能对妇女生活产生的“持久影响”的理解，以及对劳动妇女的“思想和情感”的新发现的“同情”和欣赏。值得注意的是，有一个超越病人相关性的能力，成为病人的人格意识。大多数项目数据指出，需要增加观众参与项目电影。事实上，参与这项研究的卫生专业人员经常认为，需要从母亲的角度来指导实践。他们经常在他们的评论中建议，这部电影成为他们培训的一部分，以告知实践（这些电影已被国王学院采用，他们在那里进行了试点）。为了满足这一需求，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校联系，安排和建立电影观看和讨论和分析会议。她或他还将进入电影到相关的节日，并提供给公众讨论沿着与主要研究者。研究人员将综合拟议影响分析的结果，并编写整理结果的摘要。我们预计这个职位将持续一年

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