Creative Practice and Mutual Recovery

Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Well-Being

This highly collaborative programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/K003364/1) 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.

Creative practice could be a powerful tool for bringing together people with mental health needs, informal carers and health, social care and education personnel, to connect in a mutual or reciprocal fashion to enhance mental health and well-being.

This programme marks a radical shift in vision that could generate new pathways for transforming these often discrete groups of people into egalitarian, appreciative and substantively connected communities - resilient communities of mutual hope, compassion and solidarity.

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You Can't Take That Away From Me

Dr Gene Beresin at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds talks about his personal experience of sharing music and experiencing 'mutual recovery' while undergoing surgery.

View Dr Gene Beresin's Video

Publications

• Argyle, E. 2015. A Potter's Day: Clay Transformations, Ceramic Review, March issue, 272: 79.
• Argyle, E. & Winship, G. 2015. Creative Practice in a group setting, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19, 3: 141-147.
• Atanasova, D., Koteyko, N., Brown, B. & Crawford, P.  2017 Representations of mental health and arts participation in the national and local British press, 2007-2015. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine. In press. 1363459317708823 (ISSN: 1461-7196).
• Baker, A. & Winship, G. 2016. Recovery is no laughing matter – or is it? Mental Health & Social Inclusion, 20, 3: 167-173.
• Brown, B. 2015. Towards a critical understanding of mutuality in mental health care: Relationships, power and social capital, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 22, (10): 829–835.
• Brown, B. 2016. Mutuality in health care: Review, concept analysis and ways forward, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25 (9-10): 1464-1475.
• Brown, B. In press. Digital health humanities In Adolphs, S & Knight, D. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities, London: Routledge.
• Callahan, K., Schlozman, S., Beresin, E. & Crawford, P. 2017. The use of music in mutual recovery: A qualitative pilot study.  Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 8 (1): 103-114.
• Callahan K, Schlozman SC, Beresin EV. (in press) Creative Arts Therapies and Mutual Recovery Treatment in the United States: A Review of the Literature.  Psychiatric Services.
• Chao, W., Yujie, H., Hua, F., Longfeng, C., Wen, Q., Junyang, L., Crawford, P. & Junming, D. 2017. Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed community-dwelling adults: A cluster randomised trial.  BMC Public Health 17. 4/1-4/10 ISSN 1471-2458.
• Clarke, S., Winship, G., Manning, N. & Clarke, J. 2016. Therapeutic Communities.  Chapter in: The Art and Craft of Mental Health Nursing.  Edited by Mary Chambers.  London.  Sage.
• Crawford, P., Lewis, L., Brown, B. & Manning, N. 2013. Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery in Mental Health.  Mental Health Review Journal 18 (2): 44-64.
• Devaney, T. 2015. Mental Health and Government Policy: Critical Responses to Government REfgorms. IMH Blog (Nottingham):
  https://imhblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/tony-davaney-mental-health-and-neoliberal-policy-critical-responses-to-government-reforms/
• Fancourt, D., Perkins R., Ascenso, S., Atkins, L., Kilfeather,S., Carvalho, L.A., Steptoe, A. & Williamon, A. 2016. Group drumming modulates cytokine response in mental health service users: a preliminary study, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 85, 53-55.
• Fancourt, D., Perkins, R., Ascenso, S., Carvalho, L.A., Steptoe, A. & Williamon, A. 2016. Effects of group drumming interventions on anxiety, depression, social resilience and inflammatory immune response among mental health service users, PLoS ONE, 11 (e0151136), 1-16.
• Fancourt, D. & Williamon, A. 2016. Attending a concert reduces glucocorticoids, progesterone and the cortisol/DHEA ratio, Public Health, 132, 101-104.
• Hogan, S. 2015. Mothers Make Art: Using Participatory Art to Explore the Transition to Motherhood. Journal of Applied Arts & Health Vol. 6 (1) pp. 23-32. ISSN: 20402457.
• Hogan, S., Baker, C., Cornish, S., McCloskey, P. & Watts, L. 2015. Birth Shock: Exploring Pregnancy, Birth and the Transition to Motherhood Using Participatory Arts in Burton, N. (ed.) Natal Signs: Representations of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenthood. Canada: Demeter Press. pp.272-269. ISBN: 978-1-926452-32-6.
• Hogan, S. 2016. The Tyranny of Expectations of Post-Natal Delight: Gendering Happiness. Journal of Gender Studies. Special Issue: Gendering Happiness. Journal of Gender Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2016.1223617.
• Hogan S. 2016. Working Across Disciplines: Using Visual Methods in Participatory Frameworks in S. Pink, Fors, V. & O’Dell, T. (eds.). Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice. London: Berghahn.
• Hogan, S. 2017. Community-Based Arts, Health and Wellbeing In Britain in Stickley, T. (ed.) Arts Health & Wellbeing: A Theoretical Enquiry. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p.219-235. ISBN13: 978-1-4438-9136-3
• Hogan, S. 2017. The Birth Project: Mothers & Birth Professionals Make Art in Hogan, S. (ed.) Gender Issues in International Arts Therapies Research. Oxon: Routledge.
• Hogan, S., Sheffield, D., Woodward, A. 2017. The Value of Art Therapy in Antenatal and Postnatal Care: A Brief Literature Review. International Journal of Art Therapy (IJAT, formerly Inscape). Volume 22, 2017 - Issue 4, 169-179. (doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2017.1299774).
• Jordan, M., Wright, E. J., Purser, A., Grundy, A., Joyes, E., Wright, N., Crawford, P., and Manning, N. Capoeira for beginners: Self-benefit for, and community action by, new capoeiristas. Sport, Education, & Society.
• Lewis, L. .2014. Mutuality in the research encounter: some reflections on the ethico-politics of conducting interviews. Contribution to the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery Seminar Series, Methodologies, University of Nottingham, June. Available: www.wlv.ac.uk/connectedcommunities
• Martikke, S. 2014. Mutual Recovery through Creative Connection: National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement Public Engagement Case Study. Available:
  https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/case-studies/mutual-recovery-through-creative-connection
• Martikke, S., Church, A. & Hart, A. 2015. Greater than the sum of its parts: What works in sustaining community-university partnerships, GMCVO, pp. 106-7. Available: https://www.gmcvo.org.uk/greater-sum-its-parts-what-works-sustaining-community-university-partnerships
• Pérez, E., Ball, M., Brown, P., Crepaz-Keay, D., Haslam-Jones, E. & Crawford, P. 2016a. Kundalini Yoga as mutual recovery: a feasibility study including children in care and their carers. Journal of Children’s Services, 11(4), pp. 1-22, Open Access, ISSN 1746-6660.
• Pérez, E., Henckert, D. & Churchill, D. 2016b. Video Interactive Guidance (VIG): a reflective pedagogical tool for enhancing learning goals and compassion in the context of Clinical Communication Skills education, pp. 360-362. In Peterkin, A. & Brett-MacLean, P. (Eds.) Keeping Reflection Fresh. Kent State Press (Literature and Medicine series).
• PEREZ VALLEJOS, E, HASLAM-JONES, E and PICKARD, D, 2018. Creative Practices as Mutual Recovery: Flamenco-Yoga Papeles de Trabajo sobre Cultura, Educación y Desarrollo Humano.14(3), 80-89
• Perkins, R., Ascenso, S., Atkins, L., Fancourt, D. & Williamon, A. 2016. Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery, Psychology of Well-Being, 6 (11), 1-17.
• Saavedra, J., Pérez, E., Crawford, P., y Arias, S. 2017.  Recovery and creative practices in people with severe mental illness: evaluating well-being and social inclusion. Disability and Rehabilitation.  doi: 10.1080/09638288.2017.1278797
• Saavedra, J., Arias, S., Crawford, P. & Pérez, E. 2017. Impact of creative workshops for people with severe mental illness: Art as a means of recovery. Arts and Health.  Accepted 06/09/2017.  In press. DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2017.1381130
• Saavedra-Macías, J., Arias-Sánchez, S., de la Cruz, E., Galán, M.L., Galván, B., Murvartian, L., and Vallecillo. N. 2016. La recuperación mutua en personas con trastornos psicológicos o diversidad funcional a través de la práctica creativa [Mutual recovery in people with psychological disorders or functional diversity through creative practice]. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 28, 339-354.
• Winship, G. 2016. A meta-recovery framework: positioning the ‘New Recovery’ movement and other recovery approaches.  Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 23, 66–73.

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