This video is an interview with Dr. Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC about her new book. We cover topics from how the creative arts therapists improve loneliness, empowerment, and connection to how the creative arts therapists can work with arts in health volunteers to how different cultures are approaching the need for more creative arts therapists.
Buy the book here: https://uk.jkp.com/products/bridging-the-creative-arts-therapies-and-arts-in-health
Betts, D., & Huet, V. (Eds.). (2023). Bridging the Creative Arts Therapies and Arts in Health: Toward Inspirational Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Intro 0:00
Donna's Background and Background of the Book 0:24
How do the Creative Arts Therapies Address Loneliness, Connections, and Empowerment 3:35
Arts Therapists vs Arts in Health Volunteers 6:13
What can a Creative Arts Therapist do to work with an Arts in Health Volunteer 11:00
What are the pitfalls of working together? 13:25
What is the biggest difference in Creative Arts Therapists in different cultures? 18:25
Final Thoughts 23:20
Outro: 25:36
Contents
Foreword by Lord Howarth of Newport
Chapter 1: Betts & Huet - Introduction Unifying and Promoting the Arts for Health and Wellbeing
Chapter 2: Karkou, Sajnani, Baker & Abdullah Global - Contributions of the Arts Therapies and the Arts to Health and Well-Being During the Pandemic: Embracing New Ways of Caring
Chapter 3: Hume - Mutual Support? What Do the Creative Arts Therapies and Creativity and Culture for Health and Wellbeing Bring to Each Other?
Chapter 4: Lambert, Baxley, & Sonke - Educating Artists and Administrators to Engage the Arts for Health and Well-Being in Healthcare and Community Settings
Chapter 5: Koh & Lee - Navigating Identities within Arts in Health in Singapore: Reflections and Recommendations for Collaborative Art and Art Therapy Practices
Chapter 6: Vaudreuil, Blumenfeld, & Walker - Creative Forces (R): The Continuum of Clinical Creative Arts Therapies to Community Arts Engagement for Military-Connected Populations
Chapter 7: Peterson & Etter - Creative Arts Mentorship and Vocational Rehabilitation in a Forensic Psychiatric Community
Chapter 8: Whitaker - Studios of Life: Outsider Art at School
Chapter 9: Ho & Potash - Exhibitions Through Arts and Arts Therapy: From Empathic Understanding to Advocacy
Chapter 10: Ioannides & Tsekou - Eudaimonia: Museum Programs as Agents of Change, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Chapter 11: Kaimal, Magsamen, Walker, Spooner, Malhotra, & Legari - Exhibitions and Immersive Spaces as Therapeutic Settings that Promote Heath, Education and Well-being
Chapter 12: Prasad, Anand, Kaimal, & Sumathi - Sowing the Seeds of Art Therapy in India: One Seed at a Time
Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network
Website: https://www.creativeforcesnrc.arts.gov/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@creativeforcesneamilitaryh5858