Arts for the Blues: CPD training on safe uses of the arts to support mental health and wellbeing

“艺术为布鲁斯”是一个项目，它提供了一种安全的方式来利用艺术促进心理健康和福祉。它是团队工作的典范，使用了一系列创造性的方法，包括视觉艺术、创意写作、音乐、戏剧、舞蹈和动作。它有一个结构，但它可以高度适应不同的人的需求。布鲁斯艺术基于八个关键要素，可以帮助人们以积极的方式改变：鼓励积极参与、学习技能、发展关系、表达情感、更深层次的处理、获得理解、尝试不同的存在方式和整合有用的材料。它还分为四个阶段：介绍、鼓励优势、解决困难和结束。该模式基于学术研究、公众意见、NHS工作人员和服务用户的贡献以及艺术工作，并已与NHS面对面和在线试行，在社区和学校进行。这个特别的项目旨在将现有的布鲁斯艺术培训材料发展成一个为期两天的“持续专业发展”课程，由一个网站和一个反思实践小组提供支持。我们希望此举可使我们更广泛地推广这种工作方式，并鼓励我们在前线健康服务和私家医生中采纳我们的模式。

'Arts for the Blues' is a project that offers safe ways of using the arts for mental health and wellbeing. It's a model for groupwork that uses a range of creative approaches including visual art, creative writing, music, drama, dance and movement. It has a structure but it's highly adaptable to different people's needs.Arts for the Blues is based on eight 'key ingredients' that can help people change in a positive way: encouraging active engagement, learning skills, developing relationships, expressing emotions, processing at a deeper level, gaining understanding, experimenting with different ways of being and integrating useful material. It also works in four phases: introduction, encouraging strengths, addressing difficulties, and closure.The model is based on a mixture of academic research, public input, contributions from NHS staff and service users and artistic work, and has been piloted in-person and online with the NHS, in the community, and in schools.This particular project aims to develop already-existing Arts for the Blues training materials into a two-day 'Continuing Professional Development' course, supported by a website and a reflective practice group. We hope that this will enable us to spread this way of working more widely and encourage take-up of our model in frontline health services as well as among private practitioners.