Purpose Service users' voice is at the forefront of movements within psychiatry that look to
create more humanising care. Although genuine co-production of knowledge is limited by …

Start Manchester is an arts‐based, face‐to‐face mental health service within the emergent
field of arts in mental health. This article describes its work and demonstrates how it uses art …

REWRITALIZE is the result of an identified lack of opportunity for creative activities within
psychiatric care and recovery in Denmark. Service users (both in-and outpatients) have little …

Art therapy has a long history in mental healthcare, but requires an enhanced evidence
base in order to better identify its precise role in contemporary services. This paper …

Collaboration between service users and staff is central to successful recovery-oriented
working in mental health. Participatory arts programmes are increasingly utilised for this …

BACKGROUND The Department of Health in the United Kingdom published a National
Health Service (NHS) plan (1998) setting out ambitious human resource targets for …

Art therapy has a long history in mental health care but requires an enhanced evidence
based in order to better identify its precise role in contemporary services. This paper …

Background: This article is based on the Arts+ Minds research project which investigated the
experience of arts participation for mental health service users in Cork, Ireland, and the …

Accessible summary• This research report is focusing upon arts activities on inpatient mental
health units in the UK.• There is little current research about such activities.• People are often …

Background: Congruent with the practice development movement, arts-informed narrative
inquiry addresses practitioner awareness of self and others within the social context of …