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Toward an understanding of how art making can facilitate mental health recovery

Theresa Van LithSchool of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Prahran Mission, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Patricia FennerSchool of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Margot J SchofieldSchool of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Pages 183-193 | Received 18 Feb 2009, Accepted 10 Jul 2009, Published online: 17 Dec 2014

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Patricia Fenner, Brigid Ryan, Leua Latai & Steven Percival. (2018) Art making and the promotion of wellbeing in Samoa – participants’ lived experience of a recovery oriented intervention. Arts & Health 10:2, pages 124-137.
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Kristin Berre Ørjasæter, Theodore Stickley, Marianne Hedlund & Ottar Ness. (2017) Transforming identity through participation in music and theatre: exploring narratives of people with mental health problems. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 12:1.
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Karleen Gwinner, Marie Knox & Mark Brough. (2015) ‘A contributing life’: living a contributing life as ‘a person’, ‘an artist’ and ‘an artist with a mental illness’. Health Sociology Review 24:3, pages 297-309.
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Theresa Van Lith. (2015) Art Making as a Mental Health Recovery Tool for Change and Coping. Art Therapy 32:1, pages 5-12.
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Clair Le Boutillier, Agnes Chevalier, Vanessa Lawrence, Mary Leamy, Victoria J Bird, Rob Macpherson, Julie Williams & Mike Slade. (2015) Staff understanding of recovery-orientated mental health practice: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. Implementation Science 10:1.
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Jackie Lawson, Frances Reynolds, Wendy Bryant & Lesley Wilson. (2013) ‘It’s like having a day of freedom, a day off from being ill’ : Exploring the experiences of people living with mental health problems who attend a community-based arts project, using interpretative phenomenological analysis . Journal of Health Psychology 19:6, pages 765-777.
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K.L. Margrove, J. Pope & G.M. Mark. (2013) An exploration of artists' perspectives of participatory arts and health projects for people with mental health needs. Public Health 127:12, pages 1105-1110.
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Karin Egberg Thyme, Britt Wiberg, Berit Lundman & Ulla Hällgren Graneheim. (2013) Qualitative content analysis in art psychotherapy research: Concepts, procedures, and measures to reveal the latent meaning in pictures and the words attached to the pictures. The Arts in Psychotherapy 40:1, pages 101-107.
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