Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk L39 4QP, UK.
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Salford, Salford, UK.
Perspect Public Health. 2019 May;139(3):137-146. doi: 10.1177/1757913919826599. Epub 2019 Apr 5.
Research over the last decade has identified both strengths and limitations in the use of routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression. More recently, a focus on how creative art therapies and 'arts on prescription' are developing a growing recognition of their potential additional therapeutic mechanisms for depression.
In an attempt to develop a new therapeutic intervention for depression, this research aligned both the evidence base surrounding the arts on prescription movement, collating these with client-reported helpful factors and preferences for therapeutic interventions.
We developed a framework for a new pluralistic 'meta-approach' of therapy for depression, based on; an interdisciplinary thematic synthesis of active ingredients, considered specific features implemented in therapy, and client-reported helpful factors considered to be the broad features or experiences in therapy from both talking therapies and creative approaches. This framework contributed to the development of a pilot workshop entitled Arts for the Blues - A New Creative Psychological Therapy for Depression. An outline of, and evaluation from this workshop is presented in this article. Workshop participants were recruited via a voluntary workshop taking place at a North West Higher Education Institution Arts and Health conference ( N = 15).
The workshop was evaluated using quantitative measures, with results indicating around a 70% overall satisfaction, followed up with qualitative commentary around areas of good practice and areas for development. These included the positive reflection on the application of creative arts and the multimodal nature of the approach, while others reflected on the potential overwhelming nature of utilising multimodal methods for individuals with depression.
Overall feedback from the pilot workshop is discussed in relation to prior research, giving credence to the potential for incorporating arts into therapy.
过去十年的研究已经确定了在抑郁症的常规心理治疗中使用的优势和局限性。最近，人们关注创造性艺术治疗和“艺术处方”如何发展，越来越认识到它们对抑郁症的潜在额外治疗机制。
为了开发一种新的治疗抑郁症的方法，本研究将“艺术处方”运动的循证基础与客户报告的有助于治疗的因素和对治疗干预的偏好结合起来。
我们基于积极因素的跨学科主题综合，考虑了治疗中实施的特定特征，以及客户报告的有助于治疗的因素，这些因素被认为是来自谈话疗法和创造性方法的治疗中的广泛特征或体验，为抑郁症的新的多元“元方法”治疗制定了一个框架。本文介绍了该框架对名为“Arts for the Blues - A New Creative Psychological Therapy for Depression”的试点研讨会的开发的贡献。本文介绍了该研讨会的概述和评估。研讨会参与者是通过在西北高等教育机构艺术与健康会议上自愿参加研讨会的方式招募的（n=15）。
该研讨会使用定量措施进行评估，结果表明总体满意度约为 70%，随后对良好实践和发展领域进行了定性评论。这些包括对创造性艺术应用和方法的多模式性质的积极反思，而其他人则反思了对于抑郁症患者来说，采用多模式方法的潜在压倒性性质。
总体上，试点研讨会的反馈是根据之前的研究进行讨论的，这证明了将艺术融入治疗的潜力。
