Arts in Health, also known as Arts for Health, is an umbrella term used to describe the domain of using the arts to enhance our (mental) health and well-being. It involves a heterogeneous range of professionals who use the arts in various ways, with different goals and outcomes. The practices of these professionals can be placed on a continuum based on the variety of goals and outcomes, ranging from promoting social connection or well-being to treating (mental) health conditions. Recent discussions in the Netherlands have raised questions about the position of creative arts therapists on this continuum. This opinion paper addresses this issue by providing a brief overview of the development of the profession of creative arts therapists, the working areas of creative arts therapists and the growing evidence base of creative arts therapeutic interventions. The practices of creative arts therapists are positioned on the continuum, where the emphasis on and accountability for the clients’ (mental) health increases and evidence-informed use of the arts within a more clearly delineated and legally safeguarded professional framework are present. Knowing where the practices of creative arts therapists are placed can assist in identifying when to choose creative arts therapists, other professionals combining arts and healthcare, or a combination of professionals.
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Transitions in health care and the increasing pace at which technological innovations emerge, have led to new professional approach at the crossroads of health care and technology. In order to adequately deal with these transition processes and challenges before future professionals access the labour market, Fontys University of Applied Sciences is in a transition to combining education with interdisciplinary practice-based research. Fontys UAS is launching a new centre of expertise in Health Care and Technology, which is a new approach compared to existing educational structures. The new centre is presented as an example of how new initiatives in the field of education and research at the intersection of care and technology can be shaped.
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The road to science for the arts therapies requires research on the full breadths of the spectrum, from systematic case studies to RCTs. It is important that arts therapists and arts therapeutic researchers reflect on the typical characteristics of each research paradigm, research type and research method and select what is appropriate with regard to the particular research question. Questions rather differ. Finding out whether a certain intervention has a particular effect with a large group of clients differs from wanting to know which change occurs at which moment by which interventions in the treatment of an individual client. Research in practice remains close to questions encountered by arts therapists in their daily practice. It concerns questions arts therapists have about their lived experience of acting due to the complexity and variability of practice. By carrying out research in practice that links up with those questions, evidence evolves; evidence that enables the professional to proceed and that makes explicit what often remains implicit and unsaid. What is explicit can be communicated, can be criticised and tested. The professional himself does the road to science of the profession. The investment in professionals’ research in practice is the motor of knowledge-productivity that bridges the theory-practice gap. Research in the arts therapies should lead to ‘knowledge’ in which the ‘art’, nor the ‘subject’ of therapist and client have been lost.
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The population in rural areas in the northern provinces are aging in a much higher pace than in other parts of the Netherlands. Many young and higher educated citizens move out of these provinces. Quality of life in rural villages decreases likewise and the inhabitants that stay behind are more vulnerable, with lower income and educational levels. Recent decentralization policies put a larger burden on local constituencies to guarantee the quality of the living environment but a lot of them lack sufficient knowledge and capacity to tackle this complex issue.The initiators of this application have joined their knowledge and experience to put together a consortium with the aim to support these smaller constituencies in rural areas in the three northern provinces with a new and innovative methodology: the GO! approach. This approach was developed in the neigborhoods of Utrecht municipality and will be used for the first time in rural communities with a comparable size .This approach consists of the following steps:• First to identify possibilities to create a healthier living environment by analyzing available data on pollution, spatial layout and social cohesion.• To discuss the result of this analysis with local citizens and other local stakeholders in order to link the data with local experiences• To prioritize into major themes as a result of the combination of all this available information.• To link these major themes to combinations effective measures available from RIVM and international databases.• To present these combinations to the local government, their citizens and other local stakeholders in order to let them choose for an effective approach and inplemant it together in order to create a local healthier living environment.The GO! approach will provide local citizens and professionals with the necessary tools and knowledge to work jointly and effectively to realize a healthier living environment. The project partners that jointly started the consortium will put in effort during this first year to build and formalize the consortium and to make arrangements with several constituencies in the three northers provinces to formulate their own specific knowledge agenda as a basis for concrete project proposals in the second stage to be implemented with the support of the formalized consortium.
Sommige mensen met chronische ziekten zoals COPD hebben baat bij (online) zelfzorg, andere helemaal niet. Welke oplossing werkt nu eigenlijk bij wie? In de TASTE-onderzoekslijn kijken we naar het succes van zelfmanagement en eHealth bij mensen met een chronische ziekte.Doel De TASTE-onderzoekslijn (TAilored Self-managemenT and E-health) richt zich op zelfmanagement van chronisch zieken: het vermogen van patiënten om goed met hun ziekte om te gaan. Er zijn talloze hulpmiddelen voor beter zelfmanagement op de markt, vaak digitaal (eHealth). Maar het is onduidelijk wat nu echt werkt en bij wie. TASTE bestaat uit meerdere deelonderzoeken. Wij onderzoeken wat er nodig is om ondersteuning op maat te bieden voor het omgaan met een chronische ziekte. Daarnaast ontwikkelen we nieuwe methodes voor zelfmanagement. Hiermee willen we kosten verminderen van de zorg voor chronisch zieken en de behandeling verbeteren. Resultaten Onderzoeker Jaap Trappenburg over TASTE https://youtu.be/J4ndcf83sBI Promotieonderzoek mHealth bij COPD M-ACZiE: Omgaan met longaanvallen bij chronische longziekte Publicaties 'We zitten voor een dubbeltje op de eerste rang' (V&VN Magazine) 'Zelfmanagement bij chronische ziekten'(Huisarts en Wetenschap) 'Self-management: One size does not fit all' (Patient Education and Counseling) TASTE Nieuwsbrieven TASTE Nieuwsbrief 1 (2012) TASTE Nieuwsbrief 2 (2013) Brochure TASTE: Het succes van zelfmanagement ontrafelen Looptijd 01 januari 2012 - 31 december 2020 Aanpak Met innovatieve onderzoeksmethoden werkt de TASTE-onderzoekslijn aan nieuwe kennis die nodig is om antwoord te kunnen geven op de vraag welk type interventie het beste werkt bij welk patiëntprofiel.
The PANEURAMA project aims to address the mismatches between the output of HEI/VETs and the needs of the industry in the fields of animation, computer games and VFX. It consists of a network of HEIs and VETs in Europe as well as field-relevant industry partners, and is supported by a range of strong associated partners. The hope is to better prepare students and graduates for the emerging needs of their prospective careers, and in doing so building resilience into the European animation, gaming, and media arts sectors.Societal IssueStudents that are insufficiently prepared for their working fields limit the creativity of the sector, are stressed in their workplaces, and create economic problems.Benefit to societyHealthier cultural and creative sectors are a sign of a strong society, with benefits for mental health, cultural harmony, and positive economic impacts.
