Dyer Geraldine, Hunter Ernest
Remote Area Mental Health Service, Queensland Health, Cairns, QLD, Australia.
Australas Psychiatry. 2009 Aug;17 Suppl 1:S146-50. doi: 10.1080/10398560902948431.
This paper describes the background to, implementation of and evaluation challenges associated with an innovative, arts-based, wellbeing and mental health recovery project in a remote Indigenous setting.
Creative Recovery is a community-based arts initiative for Indigenous people with mental health problems. It has been rolled out as a pilot project in a remote Cape York community and is aimed at promoting wellbeing and recovery. The theoretical basis for the initiative is modelled on ideas of the role that social capital plays in improving mental health. This involves both the beneficial impact community participation and the social cohesion it creates can have, not only on an individual's mental health, but also on the social and emotional wellbeing of the communities they are part of. Such initiatives have already been adopted as an integral part of mental health promotion in countries such as the UK, and in other Australian states such as Victoria and Western Australia. The following paper will locate Creative Recovery in the current field of mental health promotion theory and Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing, and will discuss some of the evidence for and challenges inherent in adopting such initiatives.
本文描述了在偏远的原住民地区开展的一个创新型、基于艺术的、促进身心健康和精神康复项目的背景、实施情况及评估挑战。
“创意康复”是一项针对有心理健康问题的原住民的社区艺术倡议。它已在约克角半岛的一个偏远社区作为试点项目推出，旨在促进身心健康和康复。该倡议的理论基础借鉴了社会资本在改善心理健康方面所起作用的理念。这既涉及社区参与及其创造的社会凝聚力所产生的有益影响，不仅对个人心理健康，而且对他们所属社区的社会和情感健康都有影响。此类倡议在英国等国家以及维多利亚州和西澳大利亚州等澳大利亚其他州已被采纳为心理健康促进的一个组成部分。下文将把“创意康复”置于当前心理健康促进理论及原住民社会和情感健康领域中进行定位，并将讨论采纳此类倡议的一些证据及内在挑战。
