Publications – Arts For The Blues

Journal Article Published

07/12/2019 artadmin Comments 0 Comment

Arts for the blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 9th July 2019 The Arts for the Blues team have just had their second journal article published for this project. This paper presents an interdisciplinary synthesis of key active ingredients in psychological treatment for depression, from both talking therapies, and creative arts-based approaches. These findings led to the development of a framework for a new pluralistic ‘meta-approach’ therapy for depression. The article also features an example of…

Journal Article Published!

04/09/2019 artadmin Comments 0 Comment

Our first article for this research study has been published in Perspectives in Public Health, a link to which is below. The article details how we developed the framework for a new pluralistic ‘meta-approach’ of therapy for depression, based on; an interdisciplinary thematic synthesis of active ingredients, considered specific features implemented in therapy, and client-reported helpful factors considered to be the broad features or experiences in therapy from both talking therapies and creative approaches. This framework led to to the…

New journal publication coming soon!

02/18/2019 artadmin Comments 0 Comment

The research team have received confirmation of the publication of their article titled ‘Arts for the Blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression : a pilot workshop report’ in the Perspectives for Public Health journal. The details of this article concern a pilot intervention workshop and focus group that was held at an arts, health and wellbeing event (ArtsEqual) in June 2018, at Edge Hill University. If you are interested in having a look at some of the…

Arts For The Blues

Evidence-based creative psychological therapy for depression

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