Keep up to date with our latest news and events.
Latest News
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Lights, Camera, Action
This week the team worked with a film crew to capture the workshop in real time with genuine participants. We intend to provide visual examples of the key ingredients that underpin the design of the therapy, which we hope will be useful for practitioners who are interested in creative therapies, or for health care professionals…
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Journal article published!
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…
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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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Division of counselling psychology annual conference
Cardiff, July 2019 Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Dr Scott Thurston and Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall from the Arts for the Blues team, recently presented an update of our work at the annual conference, which each year attracts academics and practitioners working in around the field of psychology. https://www.bps.org.uk/events/division-counselling-psychology-annual-conference-2019 The Division of Counselling Psychology Annual Conference exists to provide…
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BACP 2019 conference presentation
The Arts for the Blues team have been in Belfast this week presenting at the 25th Annual Research Conference of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. We received some excellent and encouraging feedback from our attendees and thoroughly enjoyed the conference as participants. For an abstract of the paper we presented see below bacp-research-conference-2019-abstracts
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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 and growth. 1st – 2nd June 2019 Edge Hill University How might we flourish as individuals, who nurture ourselves and others? What supports flourishing, wellbeing and development for clients, professionals and communities? In this workshop we will explore experientially the…