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Arts in Health

Designing and Researching Interventions

Daisy Fancourt

Systematically explains how to design and deliver an arts in health intervention making it a valuable 'how to' guide arts practitioners, project managers and healthcare professionals who want to implement an arts intervention in healthcare.
Develops a new model for what arts in health actually encompasses, drawing together 7 different areas of arts in health practice, outlining what the field is and positions it in relation to other related fields.
Contains a factfile of 13 different areas of medicine, showing what research findings have been published, suggesting project ideas and providing further resources which will help readers come up with their own project or research ideas and be a reference guide for day-to-day work in arts in health.
Provides template documents for research, including research protocols, information sheets and consent forms demystifying the process and helping them design their own research or evaluation.
Catalogues the history, theory and political moves behind the field of arts in health, offering context for arts in health so readers understand how the field is positioned.

Arts in Health

Designing and Researching Interventions

Daisy Fancourt

Description

Over the past few decades, the use of the arts in health has burgeoned. What, for many centuries, was seen as a fringe activity is now being recognised as a field that has enormous potential for impacting positively on both individuals and societies. However, despite this surge in interest and activity, there is still limited support available for people working in the field. Although the number of practical training courses for artists is growing and more universities are establishing research groups, most training activity occurs in either practice or research; there are relatively few opportunities to gain parallel experience in both.

Arts in Health: Designing and Researching Interventions provides a complete overview of how to go about undertaking research and practice in the field of arts in health. It starts by exploring the context for arts in health interventions, including the history of the use of arts in health and the theoretical and political developments that have laid the foundations for its flourishing. It also considers what 'arts in health' encompasses and the range of disciplines involved.

Part II examines how to design an arts in health intervention, develop partnerships and find funding and considers the sensitivities around working in healthcare.

Part III considers the value of research for the field of arts in health and how to design and undertake a research project.

Finally, part IV provides a fact file of arts in health research and practice, showing how the arts can be applied and the benefits they can bring across a range of medical disciplines. The book will be valuable for researchers, practitioners, healthcare professionals and those interested in learning more about the field.

Arts in Health

Designing and Researching Interventions

Daisy Fancourt

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
Part II: The context for arts in health interventions
2. A history of the use of arts in health
3. The theoretical background to arts in health
4. The political background to arts in health
5. Defining arts in health
Part III: Designing and delivering arts in health interventions
6. Conceptualising and planning interventions
7. Implementing and evaluating interventions
8. Partnerships and funding
9. Working in healthcare
Part IV: Researching arts in health interventions
10. An introduction to research
11. A step-by-step approach to the research process
12. Writing a research protocol
13. Research ethics
Part V: Fact file of arts in health research and practice
Introduction
Critical care and emergency medicine
Dentistry
Geriatric medicine
Healthcare staff
Neurology
Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology
Oncology
Paediatrics
Palliative care
Public Health
Psychiatry
Rehabilitation medicine
Surgery

Arts in Health

Designing and Researching Interventions

Daisy Fancourt

Author Information

Dr Daisy Fancourt is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Performance Science, a partnership of Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music. Her research focuses on the effects of arts participation on neuroendocrine and immune response, the use of the arts within clinical settings and the psychosocial impact of cultural engagement at an individual and public health level.

Arts in Health

Designing and Researching Interventions

Daisy Fancourt

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Is there a place for the arts in health?

In a utopian world of abundant health budgets and minimal health challenges, it is probably fair to say that few would object to including the arts within hospitals or promoting them as a part of healthy lifestyles. Certainly, we have a long history of incorporating the arts into health (stretching back around 40,000 years), so it's a concept many people are familiar with. But in an era of austerity, the value that the arts can bring comes under much closer scrutiny

Posted on August 17, 2017

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