A systematic review of arts-based interventions delivered to children and young people in nature or outdoor spaces: Impact on nature connectedness, health and …

Z Moula, K Palmer, N Walshe - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The time that children and young people spend in nature and outdoor spaces
has decreased significantly over the past 30 years. This was exacerbated with a further 60 …

Interventions for young children's mental health: A review of reviews

JL Hudson, S Minihan, W Chen, T Carl, M Fu… - Clinical Child and …, 2023 - Springer
To determine the efficacy of intervention programs for young children (4–9 years) with
emerging mental health needs, we conducted a review of meta-analytic and systematic …

“I didn't know I have the capacity to be creative”: Children's experiences of how creativity promoted their sense of well-being. A pilot randomised controlled study in …

Z Moula - Public Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Creativity has been found to be one of the key therapeutic elements in arts
therapies. Arts therapies are psychotherapeutic approaches that aim to facilitate …

Qualitative and arts-based evidence from children participating in a pilot randomised controlled study of school-based arts therapies

Z Moula, J Powell, V Karkou - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: There is limited evidence on the impact of arts therapies as a tool for the
prevention of mental health difficulties in childhood. This pilot randomised controlled study …

A review of the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of art therapy for children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

MN Le Vu, AL Do, L Boyer, QC Tran, S Kohler… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Art therapy has been widely offered to reduce symptoms of psychological disturbance.
Pooled evidence about its effectiveness in epidemic contexts, particularly during the COVID …

Making nature explicit in children's drawings of wellbeing and happy spaces

Z Moula, N Walshe, E Lee - Child Indicators Research, 2021 - Springer
Previous research on children's wellbeing indicators has focused extensively on adults',
rather than children's perspectives, despite there being a broad consensus that children's …

An investigation of the effectiveness of arts therapies interventions on measures of quality of life and wellbeing: A pilot randomized controlled study in primary schools

Z Moula, J Powell, V Karkou - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background Over the last decades there has been a change in the way schooling is
perceived recognizing that children's learning is closely linked to children's health. Children …

Child-focused outcome and process evaluation of a school-based art therapy intervention: A pilot randomised controlled study

Z Moula, J Powell, TN Konstant, V Karkou - The Arts in Psychotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
This pilot cross-over randomised controlled study aimed to investigate the implementation of
a school-based art therapy intervention, and to test whether all elements of the study design …

Interventions to build resilience and to ameliorate negative psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents: a systematic review and …

F Wendel, S Bender, E Breitinger, M Coenen… - European Child & …, 2023 - Springer
The psychosocial health of children and adolescents has been particularly affected by the
COVID-19 pandemic. Containment measures have restricted social development, education …

Creative arts therapy in the United States school system: An integrative systematic review of empirically evaluated interventions from the past decade

JS Frydman, S Hyman, S Caputo - Psychology in the Schools, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently there has been an expansion of the literature on creative arts therapy (CAT)
interventions in the United States (US) school system. However, findings across studies in …