Arts and Health Alliance Publications

Due to operational and funding challenges, the Arts & Health Alliance ceased operations in 2015. At that time Americans for recognizing the good work done by the Arts and Health Alliance stepped forward to provide a place to access the valuable Alliance resources on the Americans for the Arts website. Below is a collection of their publications a testament to their work in support of the arts and health field.

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.

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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.

  • Volume 2 Issue 1, March 2010

    • The state of arts and health in Australia
    • 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)
    • Ethical issues in image-based research
       
  • 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
    • To the next power: How true cultural partnerships can exponentially grow a hospital arts program
       
  • Volume 1 Issue 1, 2009

    • 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
    • The MoMA Alzheimer's Project: Programming and resources for making art accessible to people with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers