NMHS32250 Arts and Health
Academic Year 2021/2022
This elective module is open to all students with an interest in art and its impacts on health and well-being. It will be of particular interest to medical, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, radiography, social science and psychology students.
Arts and health is the generic term that embraces a range of arts practices occurring primarily in healthcare settings, which brings together the skills and priorities of both arts and health professionals (Arts Council’s Arts and Health Policy and Strategy, 2010). Over recent years, there has been a growing understanding of the impact that taking part in the arts can have on health and well-being. There are many different ways in which this work is described (arts in health, arts for health, arts and health, etc) but essentially they are all about the effect that active engagement can have on the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
This module aims to highlight how the arts can improve the health of people who experience physical or mental health problems. Engaging in this module will develop individual students knowledge relating to how the arts can promote health, enable the prevention of disease and build well-being. Students will also explore how the arts can improve healthcare environments and benefit staff retention and professional development. The overall aim of this module is to develop an awareness and understanding of the role, value and impact that the arts have on health, within a health care context and alongside a variety of health and social care disciplines.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module the student will be able to:
– Critically explore the nature of creativity and its role in developing imagination and vision, as a force for personal change and enhancement of interpersonal relationships within the healthcare arena
– Discuss the diverse range of connections between the arts, and health and well-being
– Identify different sources of evidence supporting the premise that art based interventions reduce adverse health outcomes and promote health and well-being
– Critically discuss the social and psychological impact of a variety of art programmes on a diverse range of health service users and providers
– Discuss the process required for developing, implementing and evaluating an Arts programme in a health care setting
– Present (as part of a group) a creative art intervention aimed at promoting health, healing and well-being, that is supported by a wide variety of evidence sources (i.e. empirical and creative)
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