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Latest News
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The Arts in Psychotherapy weekend event
Personal and professional flourishing for one’s self, clients, and communities- a weekend of workshops, reflections…
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Video excerpts of the key ingredients
We are delighted to showcase our short videos which illustrate the eight key ingredients which…
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Workshop design and rationale
To date the team have conducted experiential workshops for the creative psychological therapy both at…
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Lights, Camera, Action
This week the team worked with a film crew to capture the workshop in real…
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Journal article published!
Our first article for this research study has been published in Perspectives in Public Health,…
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Arts and Psychotherapy event at Edge Hill University
The Arts For The Blues team recently presented their work at an exciting and inspirational…
Events
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Arts for the Blues training
As part of the scaling up project funded by UKRI AHRC, we are offering Arts…
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Student training event
17th April 2021 (online) We spent a wonderful training day with counselling and psychotherapy students…
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Research Announcements
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Arts for the Blues: The development of a new evidence-based creative group psychotherapy for depression
Omylinska-Thurston, J., Karkou, V., Parsons, A.S., Nair, K., Haslam, S., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Lewis, J., Thurston, S. (2020). The development of…
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Scaling up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing. Research-informed strategic commitments and recommendations using Arts for the Blues as a case example
Scaling up report with foreword from Dr Nils Fietje, WHO Arts and health: Karkou V, Omylinska-Thurston J, Thurston S. Clark…
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Bringing creative psychotherapies to primary NHS Mental Health Services in the UK: A feasibility study on patient and staff experiences of Arts for the Blues workshops delivered at Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
Karkou, V., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Parsons, A., Nair, K., Starkey, J., Haslam, S., Thurston, S., & Marshall, L. D. (2022). Bringing…