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Visual Arts The Place of the Art Exhibition in Mental Health Recovery
... A traditional and historic psychotherapeutic orientation in mental health is being questioned as unnecessarily restrictive, in view of a more inclusive definition which embraces not only individual, but also socially focused approaches [9]. Health promotion strategies, for example, are used to address issues of stigma associated with mental illness through recovery-oriented art exhibitions [10]. A long-standing feature in mental healthcare, the exhibition, has regained vigor informed by the values of the recovery framework and voices of people with mental illnesses expressing their experience and recovery journeys [11]. ...
Purpose of review:
Arts therapies are still inadequately regulated throughout the world despite a 100-year-long tradition, a vast number of academically trained therapists and importance in treating psychiatric patients. It is essential that more evidence-based studies are undertaken.
Recent findings:
Current international guidelines focus on the efficacy and effectiveness of arts therapies. New international evidence-based studies reporting clear-cut therapeutic effects of art therapy, music therapy and dance movement therapy are described here, with a focus on developments in Australia, Egypt and the United States.
Summary:
Further effort must be put into the development of evidence-based treatment programmes for all arts therapies, and effort needs to go into the establishment of arts therapists as a profession, with appropriate training standards.
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