Keep up to date with our latest news and events.
Latest News
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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 Arts and Psychotherapy one day event at Edge Hill University featuring talks, workshops and performances. The event explored the contribution that the arts can make to one’s emotional wellbeing and mental health, and the relationship of the arts and psychotherapy.…
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New journal publication coming soon!
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…
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Successful funding bid
Exciting news! This January, Arts for the Blues secured funding from the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group to develop the study further over the next 12 months. The intention is to explore how the therapy intervention may be modified for other NHS and community services. In particular the team hope to work with NHS cancer care…
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NHS pilot of creative intervention
November 2018 saw the first NHS pilot of the creative therapy intervention. A workshop was held in Manchester for IAPT staff members who experienced the intervention as a participant. Afterwards, a focus group was held to gain insight into the workshop, to determine what was helpful or not and how the intervention could be improved…
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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 for the Blues training at Edge Hill University and University of Salford. This training is nearly full but do watch out for more training in the future. To keep in touch and to find out about future trainings, email artswell@edgehill.ac.uk
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 Arts for the Blues – the new creative therapy for depression. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. (IF 0.50) Read the full article here.
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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 B, Perris E. Kaehne A and Pearson M (2023) Scaling up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing Research-informed strategic commitments and recommendations using the Arts for the Blues as a case example.…
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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 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) services. Counselling…