All of the publications from the Arts and Health Alliance are available for download from the National Arts Administration and Policy Publications Database (NAAPPD). You can read abstracts on each of the publications below by clicking the title and download the publications you’d like.
Additionally there are also other publications related to Arts and Healing in the NAAPPD that may interest you. You can browse those titles by click the category Arts and Healing when visiting the NAAPPD. Americans for the Arts is committed to growing the access to Arts and Healing literature. If you have a title you don’t see in the NAAPPD please create a web login if you don’t already have one and submit the entry. Together we can grow this resource for the field and share all the wonderful work that is happening in Arts and Health.
Publications
- Arts in Healthcare: 2009 State of the Field Report
- Artist in Healthcare Certification
- Basic Toolkit Handbook: Building and Sustaining Arts in Healthcare Programs
- Introduction to Levels of Evidence in Research
Webinars
- Arts Access: Ensuring Inclusion and Universal Accessibility in the Arts in Healthcare, Part 1
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Arts Access: Ensuring Inclusion and Universal Accessibility in the Arts in Healthcare, Part 2
- Recording on YouTube of Parts 1 and 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ei25TU_hg8
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Handouts: Resource List, Arts Cart Supplies, Art Materials, Art Museums & Organizations.
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Art Access: Ensuring Inclusion and Universal Accessibility in the Arts in Healthcare 2008
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Arts Engagement Programs for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Caregivers
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Arts in Healthcare Careers: Clarifying the Roles of Artists and Creative Arts Therapists
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMAJNIncdg0
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMAJNIncdg0
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ArtScience: A Conceptual Model for Designing Research and Attracting Funders
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi8Q72ogtKE
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi8Q72ogtKE
- Becoming and Artist in Residence (download flash player to view webinar)
- Caring for Caregivers: Creating and Expanding Programs
- Creativity and Aging Forum: Creativity and Aging Forum: Embrace the Moment! Creativity Matters (download flash player to view webinar)
- Creativity and Aging Forum: Art and Aging at MoMA: Programs for Older Adults
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Coming Home to the Arts: Bringing Creative Arts Opportunities to Wounded Warriors, Their Families, and Military Hospital Staff
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Designing and Facilitating Art-making Experiences for Individuals with Dementia
- Designing and Implementing Arts Programming for People with Dementia, Part 1 of 2
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Designing and Implementing Arts Programming for People with Dementia, Part 2 of 2
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN57zrUtT7o
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN57zrUtT7o
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Designing Curricula Connecting Visual Art and Health: Interdisciplinary Courses in Higher Education
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Digital Storytelling Made Easy
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Effective Community Partnerships
- Fitting into Facilities: Using Art Carts to Bring Art to the Bedside: Art Carts at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital (download flash player to view webinar)
- Fitting into Facilities: Using Art Carts to Bring Art to the Bedside: Let's Get Rolling: The Nuts and Bolts of an Art Cart Program
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From Medical Model to Person-Centered Care: The Pivotal Role the Arts Play in Culture Change
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Fundraising 1: Prospect Research for Arts in Healthcare
- Fundraising 2: Demonstrating Impact through Program Evaluation
- Grantwriting 202: Buidling Relationships with Funders (download flash player to view webinar)
- Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Planning Strategies
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Image, Expression, Alzheimer's: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia
- Integrating the Arts into Medical Education
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Making the Case for Arts in Healthcare
- Music in Medicine: Enhancing the Healing Environment
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Network Training: Effective Partnerships
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Network Training: Keeping Networks Vibrant
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Network Training: Needs Assessment
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Network Training: Program Sustainability
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New Directions: Building a Performing Arts in Healthcare Program in a Smaller Community
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Overview of Research in Arts in Medicine
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoGuJ5sbgE
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoGuJ5sbgE
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Program Evaluation
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Handout: Evaluation Methods
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Handout: Evaluation Methods
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Promoting Arts Accessiblity for People Living with Paralysis
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jRE4TOUD58
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jRE4TOUD58
- Research Proposals for Novice Researchers, Part 1
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Research Proposals for Novice Researchers, Part 2
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Reuniting through the Arts: Offering Creative Arts Experiences That Support Families of Returning Wounded Troops
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Sustaining the Vision without Losing the Light: Growing an Organization from Inspiration to Board
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Tales of Transformation: Drama Therapy in Hospitals
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The MoMA Alzheimer's Project-Image, Expression, Alzheimer's: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia
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Visual Art Exhibits in Healthcare Settings
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcC4CS1Z17M
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Recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcC4CS1Z17M
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Visual Arts Matters: The Nuts and Bolts of Exhibitions in Healthcare Settings
- What Does Art Have to Do With Patient Saftey?
Abstracts for articles found in the Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice
Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice was the official journal of the Arts & Health Alliance, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group and was a former membership benefit of Arts & Health Alliance members. These articles are not available for download and listed here only to serve as a bibliography of available articles. Only journal articles produced during the Arts & Health Alliance joint agreement with the publisher are sited below. For newer journal articles visit Taylor & Francis Group's website.
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Volume 6 Issue 2, 2014
- Does active engagement in community music support the well-being of older people?
- Visualizing the invisible: applying an arts-based methodology to explore how healthcare workers and patient representatives envisage pathogens in the context of healthcare associated infections
- Health-related factors associated with participation in creative hobbies by Australian women aged in their eighties
- Experiences of creating personally meaningful songs within a therapeutic context
- Artwork and music: Innovative approaches to physical assessment
- Providing healthcare to New Orleans' heart and soul: The musicians
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Art Cart: Saving the Legacy, a model for positive aging and the productivity of professional artists
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Volume 6 Issue 1, February 2014
- Creative Arts and Public Health
- Mapping the Waters: A Scoping Review of the Use of Visual Arts in Pediatric Populations with Health Conditions
- Mixed methods evaluation of Well-being Benefits Derived from a Heritage-in-health Intervention with Hospital Patients
- “Singing for Breathing”: Participants' Perceptions of a Group Singing Programme for People with COPD
- Participating in Arts- and Cultural-Sector Governance in Australia: Experiences and Views of People with Disability
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Windows to Discover: A Socially Engaged Arts Project Addressing Isolation
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Volume 5 Issue 3, October 2013
- Inequalities, the arts and public health: Towards an international conversation
- Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia: Impact and domains of change
- Beyond the borders: The use of art participation for the promotion of health and well-being in Britain and Denmark
- Evidence of a transnational arts and health practice methodology? A contextual framing for comparative community-based participatory arts practice in the UK and Mexico
- Visible Voices: Expressive arts with isolated seniors using trained volunteers
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Deep listening: towards an imaginative reframing of health and well-being practices in international development
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Volume 5 Issue 2, 2013
- Sound of well-being: choir singing as an intervention to improve well-being among employees in two Norwegian county hospitals
- A mixed-methods study into ballet for people living with Parkinson's
- A scale to evaluate music for health promotion in Lao PDR: Initial development and assessment
- Exploring the potentials of group drumming as a group therapy for young female commercial sex workers in Mumbai, India
- Group drumming and well-being: A promising self-care strategy for social workers
- Music as a method of coping with cancer: A qualitative study among cancer patients in Sweden
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Disability and artistic performance: Reconsidering rehabilitation and assistive technology
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Volume 5 Issue 1, 2013
- Artistic responses to violence
- A pilot study of a narrative competence group to enhance coping and quality of life in patients with HIV
- Evaluating effectiveness of arts and health programmes in Primary Health Care: a descriptive review
- Managing the spatialities of arts-based practices with school children: an inter-disciplinary exploration of engagement, movement and well-being
- Resilience and art in chronic pain
- Pilot test of interactive theater to improve parent communication on pregnancy prevention
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Bedside theatre performance and its effects on hospitalised children's well-being
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Volume 4 Issue 3, October 2012
- Balancing safety and action: Ethical protocols for photovoice research with women who have experienced violence
- Defining arts engagement for population-based health research: Art forms, activities and level of engagement
- Managing evaluation: A community arts organisation's perspective
- A shade of grey: Negative associations with amateur choral singing
- HYPEd-up: Youth dance culture and health
- Choral singing, health and quality of life: The story of Diana
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Acrylic Rx: A program evaluation of a professionally taught painting class among older Americans
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Volume 4 Issue 2, June 2012
- Art in health and identity: Visual narratives of older Chinese immigrants to New Zealand
- Critical distance: How a mental health arts and film festival makes audiences think
- The incidental impact of music on hospital staff: An Italian case study
- The effects of recreational dance interventions on the health and well-being of children and young people: A systematic review
- Stories – a novel approach to transfer complex health information to parents: A qualitative study
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Rekindling hearts with art: A community arts project for the young survivors of the Sichuan earthquake
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Volume 4 Issue 1, February 2012
- Let's Keep Moving: A dance movement class for older women recently relocated to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC)
- Nude drawing – a relevant tool in Health Professions Education? Developing skills in observation method for reflective physiotherapy practice
- Determining the effects of therapeutic clowning on nurses in a children's rehabilitation hospital
- Dance program for physical rehabilitation and participation in children with cerebral palsy
- Exploring the ability of a drawing by proxy intervention to improve quality of life for hospitalized children
- The use of material objects in understanding the process of recovery from a first episode of schizophrenia
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Can group singing provide effective speech therapy for people with Parkinson's disease?
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Volume 3 Issue 2, September 2011
- Arts practices in unreasonable doubt? Reflections on understandings of arts practices in healthcare contexts
- Arts-based methods in health research: A systematic review of the literature
- New roles for art galleries: Art-viewing as a community intervention for family carers of people with mental health problems
- Using poetry to improve the quality of life and care for people with dementia: A qualitative analysis of the Try to Remember programme
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The impact of an arts program in a children's cancer and hematology center
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Volume 3 Issue 1, March 2011
- Cultural activities and public health: research in Norway and Sweden. An overview
- Arts-based interventions to reduce anxiety levels among college students
- Singing while caring for persons with dementia
- Promoting mental well-being and social inclusion through art: evaluation of an arts and mental health project
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This is the embodiment of empowerment: use of forum theatre to address tobacco use in community psychiatry
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Voices of African American Health: stories of health and healing
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Volume 2 Issue 2, September 2010
- Healing Architecture
- Tipping the iceberg? The state of arts and health in Canada
- Development of a music intervention protocol and its effect on participant engagement: Experiences from a randomised controlled trial with older people with dementia
- Understanding clinical benefits of modeling clay exploration with patients diagnosed with Parkinson's diseaseShall we Dance? An exploration of the perceived benefits of dancing on well-being
- Meeting in Music: The Role of Singing to Harmonise Carer and Cared For
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Volume 2 Issue 1, March 2010
- The state of arts and health in Australia
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The arts, identity and belonging: A longitudinal study
Using arts to enhance mental healthcare environments: Findings from qualitative research - “The McSpoons”: Using puppetry's narrative impact to reduce family TV time
- Art-making and identity work: A qualitative study of women living with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)
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Ethical issues in image-based research
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Volume 1 Issue 2, 2009
- The state of the arts in healthcare in the United States
- Occupational strain and professional artists: A qualitative study of an underemployed group
- Young farmers' photographic mental health promotion programme: A case study
- On creating the discipline, profession, and evidence in the field of arts and healthcare
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To the next power: How true cultural partnerships can exponentially grow a hospital arts program
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Volume 1 Issue 1, 2009
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The state of arts and health in England
Morality, duty, and the arts in health: A project on Aboriginal underage pregnancy - New theories and research findings on the positive influence of music and art on health with ageing
- Attending cultural events and cancer mortality: A Swedish cohort study
- Metaphors of loss and transition: An appreciative inquiry
- A note on designing evaluations of health effects of cultural activities at work
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The MoMA Alzheimer's Project: Programming and resources for making art accessible to people with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers
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The state of arts and health in England