...Sarah Atayero; Kate Dunton; Sasha Mattock; Amanda Gore; Sarah Douglas; Patrick Leman; Patricia Zunszain Purpose Interdisciplinary approaches to health education are becoming increasingly common. Here, the authors describe an arts-based approach designed by academics and artists to both supplement...

...Sally Robinson Purpose The paper comprises an evaluation of the inclusion of art‐related education within a health promotion course for student nurses, which ran for four cohorts from 2001 to 2005, and a description of a project to introduce art into a clinical skills laboratory as part...

... Publishing Limited 2007 Research Arts Youth Substance misuse Australia Interventions directed at young people focussing on the reduction or elimination of a problem (e.g. substance misuse) rarely achieve sustained effects, unless they also incorporate elements of positive youth development...

...Jane South Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an evaluation of a community arts for health programme in the UK involving the delivery of three separate projects targeted at disadvantaged areas. Design/methodology/approach Evaluation plans were drawn up for each project, which...

...Stephen Clift; Elaine Argyle; Gillie Bolton Purpose Drawing on literature and the evaluation of a UK community Arts in Health project, this article aims first to demonstrate that, in spite of the common association in mental health practice between art and the use of psychotherapeutic techniques...

...Jane Macnaughton; Mike White; Rosie Stacy Purpose This review article seeks to draw on experience in the UK to describe the different forms that arts in health activity can take and to examine the challenges for research in this field. Design/methodology/approach A case study is used...

...Stephen Clift; Stephen Clift Purpose To provide a context for the contributions to the special issue. Design/methodology/approach An outline of key UK developments and publications. Findings Considerable interest and activity in the arts and health field in the UK since the late 1990s...

...Stephen Clift; Mark Dooris Purpose This paper aims to describe the context, process and findings of a qualitative review of Walsall Arts into Health Partnership, which is widely acknowledged to be one of the most progressive community‐based arts and health programmes in the UK. Design...

...Sue Hillman A questionnaire survey was carried out in the Glasgow area in Scotland amongst people over the UK age of statutory retirement participating in the community arts project Call That Singing?, with a return rate of 75 per cent. The results demonstrate that participatory singing...