Arts-Based Research, Resilience and Well-being Across the Lifespan

Loraine McKay, Georgina Barton, Susanne Garvis, Viviana Sappa, Loraine McKay, Georgina Barton, Susanne Garvis, Viviana Sappa

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783030260538
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book investigates how arts-based research methods can positively influence people's resilience and well-being, particularly in constraining environments. Using examples from arts-based research methods in different contexts and from across the globe, the book brings together a diverse range of perspectives to understand how both resilience and well-being can be supported in a world that is rarely stress free.

Collectively they demonstrate how arts-based research methods can: provide agency through the foregrounding of participants' voices; afford transformational learning opportunities; create opportunities for relationship building; support creativity and new ways of thinking; generate aspirations and hope; encourage forms of communication that expose ideas, emotions and feelings that previously might not have been known or known how to be expressed; and enhance reflection and reflexivity. The authors explore how art-based practices, such as clowning, collage, dramatisation, drawing, painting, role-play and sculpting, can be used to support the resilience and well-being of individuals and groups across the lifespan, and theorize how arts-based research methods can positively contribute to participants' positive self-esteem, self-image and ability to cope with challenges and new circumstances. Academics, professional learning facilitators, higher education students, and anyone interested in resilience and well-being in the health and education sectors will find this an interesting and engaging text.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Defining and Theorising Key Concepts of Resilience and Well-Being and Arts-Based Research
• 2. Early Childhood Education, Arts-Based Research and Resilience
• 3. How Arts-Based Methods Are Used to Support the Resilience and Well-Being of Young People: A Review of the Literature
• 4. Building Resilience Through Listening to Children and Young People About Their Health Preferences Using Arts-Based Methods
• 5. Promoting Resilience in Youth Through Participation in an Arts-Based Mindfulness Group Program
• 6. Engendering Hope Using Photography in Arts-Based Research with Children and Youth
• 7. Using Arts-Based Reflection to Explore the Resilience and Well-Being of Mature-Age Women in the Initial Year of Preservice Teacher Education
• 8. Joint Painting for Understanding the Development of Emotional Regulation and Adjustment Between Mother and Son in Expressive Arts Therapy
• 9. Empowering In-Service Teachers: A Resilience-Building Intervention Based on the Forum Theatre Technique
• 10. Overcoming a Lived Experience of Personal Impasse by Creating a Theatrical Drama: An Example of Promoting Resilience in Adult Education
• 11. Clowning Training to Improve Working Conditions and Increase the Well-Being of Employees
• 12. The Reflexive Practitioner; Using Arts-Based Methods and Research for Professional Development
• 13. University Teachers’ Professional Identity Work and Emotions in the Context of an Arts-Based Identity Coaching Program
• 14. “Colouring Outside the Lines”: Employment and Resilience for Art-Makers with Disabilities
• 15. Beating Stress, the Swedish Way: Time for a ‘Fika’
• 16. Using Clay in Spiritually Ecological-Existential Art Therapy: To “See”, to “Listen” and to “Understand” by Hands
• 17. Picturing Childhood Connections: How Arts-Based Reflection and Representation Strengthen Preservice Early Childhood Teachers’ Understandings About Well-Being, Belonging, and Place
• 18. Arts-Based Research Across the Lifespan and Its Contribution to Resilience and Well-Being
• Back Matter