reading – A New Vision for Mental Health

Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health?

Author: Editorial 13th December 2021 0 Comments

This article has been written by Amy Biancolli and published by Mad in America. It begins: “Those in the psychiatric profession are accustomed to talking about dose-response in terms of prescribed treatment — so many sessions per week, so many milligrams…
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Amy Biancolli, art, dance, exercise, gratitude, humor, humour, kindness, laughter, Mad in America, music, nature, reading, sleep, social integration, sunshine, wellbeing

Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 16th September 2019 0 Comments

This free, online course is offered by FutureLearn (owned by the Open University), who say: “Find out how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with deep emotional strain. The great 18th century writer Dr Samuel Johnson, who suffered from…
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bereavement, bipolar, dementia, depression, FutureLearn, heartbreak, literature, novels, online course, poetry, reading, stress, trauma

Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose

Author: Editorial 7th September 2018 0 Comments

Aesop Marketplace is like an online dating site. It matches health decision-makers with relevant arts in health programmes in an attractive and time-efficient way. The 24 programmes that they list can be filtered by NHS region and health topics. In relation to…
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AESOP, art therapy, arts, Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose, dance, drama, music, performance arts, reading