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Volume 13, Issue 4
29 October 2009
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A Life in the Day
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Review Article| October 29 2009

Open Arts: promoting well‐being and social inclusion through art

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Jenny Secker
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Anglia Ruskin University
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Kirsten Heydinrych
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5533
Print ISSN: 1366-6282
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2009
A Life in the Day (2009) 13 (4): 20–24.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200900038

In this article we describe Open Arts' achievements during the project's first year of operation and present the first results from an ongoing evaluation being carried out by SE‐SURG (the South Essex Service User Research Group).

Keywords: Arts, Social inclusion, Mental health, Well‐being
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