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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Student training event
17th April 2021 (online) We spent a wonderful training day with counselling and psychotherapy students from both masters and undergraduate programmes at the University of Salford and Edge Hill University. We also had lecturers from both universities attending both in a support and participation capacity, alongwith invited mental health practitioners. Today was the first of…
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Arts for the Blues training day
16 January 2021 This weekend we had such an inspiring day with a wonderful group of therapists, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists, who together explored the creative possibilities for online delivery of the Arts for the Blues model. We are so thankful to connect with everyone. Here are some of the creative outputs from the day! …
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Arts for the Blues adapted for postnatal depression
Tuesday 3rd November 19:00-21:00 UK time We invite you to join ENGAGE….conversations conceived across performance studies and the maternal. A series of online forums which consider, through different artistic and academic perspectives, how maternal performance helps us to understand the lived condition of motherhood. Each forum responds to a themed-provocation (question) and features a panel of guest…
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Research Announcements
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The Importance of Psychological Flow in Creative, Embodied and Enactive Psychological Approach (Arts for the Blues)
Parsons, A. S., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Turner, R., Thurston, S., Starkey, J., Omylinska-Thurston, J., & Karkou, V. (2022). The Importance of Psychological Flow in a Creative, Embodied and Enactive Psychological Therapy Approach (Arts for the Blues). Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. Read the full article here.