Arts-Based Approaches To Promote Mental Health And Well-Being Supporting Children And Families In Conditions Of Adversity | Mental Health

This book provides insights on how creative and expressive approaches can promote psychosocial well-being among children youth and their caregivers living in conditions of adversity around the world. Arts-based psychosocial approaches give children a means to tap into their strengths as well as adaptively communicate and process experiences in ways that promote their own and overall family well-being. Offering an overview of the impact of adverse childhood experiences on lifelong health and functioning and how arts-based approaches can be protective this book discusses relevant theory and research as well as case studies and findings from mixed methods program evaluations. Examples from the Healing and Education Through the Arts (HEART) initiative from Save the Children are discussed in depth and demonstrate the benefits of creative self-expression among children and families in the most challenging environments around the world. Creative arts therapists public health professionals education specialists policymakers and humanitarian groups seeking to provide cost-effective support to communities in need will find in this book insights on the impact of large-scale arts-based interventions in a range of public health and education settings. |Arts-Based Approaches to Promote Mental Health and Well-Being Supporting Children and Families in Conditions of Adversity | Mental Health