Arts, Health and Wellbeing: A Theoretical Inquiry for Practice
About this ebook
It will be of interest to anyone practising or researching arts and health, in both hospitals and community settings. Because of the nature of the work, the volume is cross-disciplinary in theory and multi-disciplinary in practice. As such, it will appeal to a cross-section of practitioners and thinkers.
Research in the field of arts, health and wellbeing has developed considerably in recent years, and in the dialogue of this book some of the big questions for the agenda are addressed.
About the author
Stephen Clift is Professor of Health Education in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health. He is also Professorial Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and has led on developments within the Society related to creative arts and health. His current interests relate to arts and heath and particularly the potential value of group singing for health and wellbeing. He is one of the founding editors of the journal Arts & Health: An international journal for research, policy and practice, and is Chair of the recently established RSPH Special Interest Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing. He is also co-editor, with Professor Paul Camic, of the Oxford Public Health Textbook on Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing.
