International Health Humanities Conference (5th. 2016. Sevilla)

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Creating doorways: Finding existential meaning and growth through the creative arts in the face of life-threatening illness
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Reilly, Rosemary C.; Lee, Virginia; Laux, Kate; Robitaille, Andréanne
Life-threatening illness can be sufficiently traumatic to shatter one‘s beliefs about self, others, and the world. This disruption can trigger an instinctive search for meaning. Research highlights that how individuals respond post-adversity can make the difference between experiencing posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic growth (PTG) and existential growth (EG). This paper presents the findings of a pilot study situated in a tertiary care cancer centre and details the impact of creative arts therapy on the experiences of individuals living through breast cancer. Ten women were interviewed about their experiences making art, many for the first time. Emergent themes included: the significant benefits of art-making on their sense of self-efficacy; the emotionally enhancing nature of art-making; the power of their artwork to trigger insights (including subthemes of EG, PTG) or in communicating their experiences to loved ones; and how art-making changed their worldview and life philosophies, creating doorways of possibilities. Findings suggest that art-making provides a safe, dynamic context for individuals experiencing breast cancer to reflect on profound personal changes and to re-story losses following adversity through creative arts practices.
Cyanotype: Workshops for people with early dementia
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación., 2017) Moreno Sáez, María del Carmen; Gutiérrez-Párraga, Teresa
The workshop "Cyanotype: Workshops for people with early dementia", carried out at the 5th International Conference on Health Humanities introduced the cyanotype. The cyanotype is a 19th century photographic technique that the research project used as a way for preventing the decline of faculties of people living with diseases that provoke memory loss. The activities carried out in the cyanotype workshop at the Conference were based on the creation of photographic images that could be intervened or complemented with other traditional art techniques. It was specially targeted at educators who want to develop an occupational therapy experience. This engaged the participants in activating their vision and developing their fine motor skills so as to create their own personal artwork. These aspects are important when applying this technique to groups living with dementia. The general aim of the workshops at the Conference was to develop the cyanotype as a resource for art educators or facilitators in experiences with people living with Alzheimer‘s disease or other early dementias.
ProVACAT: Practising or viewing art cognitive ability trial: A collaboration between the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum and Hammerson House Care Home (2015/16)
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Hollamby, Emma; Baum, Michael
Art Engagement to Slow Cognitive Impairment and Improve Wellbeing. As the UK National Health Service strives to support an ageing population with increased life expectancy we see a rise in social prescribing. Our ambition is to conduct a randomised, long-term intervention assessing the potential for arts engagement to slow expected cognitive decline and improve wellbeing. We identified a residential care home with the appropriate facilities and support for a feasibility study. Our intervention sees Group A receive practical art sessions exploring new materials and techniques. Group B receive seminars responding to replica artworks with open discussion. Participant wellbeing was measured immediately following each session using the UCL Museum Wellbeing Measures Toolkit. Over twelve weeks, two groups of four participants, each with an average age of 93 attended one hour creative sessions and seminars respectively. The results demonstrate a positive variability of outcomes with different wellbeing responses between the two groups at this early stage. They mark the potential for more ambitious projects, addressing a larger group of participants with greater measurement of cognitive function under a randomised controlled trial. The project seeks to achieve a generalisablity applicable to varying demographics.
Feeling alive! : Participatory visual arts programme and vitality in a nursing home – A Singapore case study
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Tan, Michael Koon Boon
The priorities many nursing homes give to physical care often supersede consideration for leisure arrangement and resources for residents. Such an approach often resulted in low level of activity. Inactive lifestyle in nursing homes can diminish the quality of life of residents and elicit negative emotions such as boredom, reinforced dependency, lowered self-esteem, and diminished morale. In the light of population ageing and an increased in demand for nursing homes in Singapore, this research addressed the current lack of research on lifestyle arrangement to promote the personal well-being of nursing home residents. In doing so, it investigates the effect of a participatory visual arts programme to foster the well-being of nursing home residents. Through a novel approach that combined arts-health practice with social scientific qualitative case study, the link between participatory arts and vitality was explored. Participatory arts was found to vitalise the sensory, physical, cognitive, emotional, social dimension of residents and promote self-actualisation.
Tenemos cita con el arte: Visiting art museums with people living with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Torres Vega, Sara; Hernández Ullán, Clara; Tejedor Bonhome, Laura
GIMUPAI is a research group constituted by teachers and researchers of the Faculty of Fine Arts (Complutense University of Madrid) and the Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology (Salamanca University). In answering to the growing necessity of developing museum programs for people living with Alzheimer's disease, we have designed, implemented and evaluated a set of museum visits and workshops under the name "Tenemos cita con el arte". This initiative is part of the Spanish state-funded research project entitled "Art education un museums and other cultural institutions as a tool for increasing the wellbeing of people affected with Alzheimer" (Ministerio de Educación-EDU2013-43253-R). With this program we aim at making the museum accessible to people with Alzheimer and their caregivers. In doing so, we analyze the difficulties that a group of this characteristics encounters. This text offers an in-depth view of the museum itineraries carried out during the visits to the Museo del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. It includes information on the specific aims, methodology, contents, challenges and difficulties encountered while accompanying a group of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers to a museum setting.
Tenemos cita con el arte: a pilot project of visits and workshops with people affected by Alzheimer's disease in the Prado Museum, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Museum and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Ávila, Noemí; Belver, Manuel H.; Ullán, Ana M.; Moreno, María del Carmen; Torres Vega, Sara; Hernández Ullán, Clara; Tejedor Bonhome, Laura; Gutiérrez, María Teresa; Antúnez, Noelia
GIMUPAI is a research group comprising teachers and researchers from the Faculty of Fine Arts (University Complutense of Madrid) and the Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology (Salamanca University) who have been working in art and health projects over the last thirteen years. Recently, we have carried out Tenemos cita con el arte, part of a national research project entitled "Art education in museums and other cultural institutions as a tool for increasing the wellbeing of people affected with Alzheimer" (Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness-EDU2013-43253-R). The main objective of the program is to make the museum‘s artworks available to people with Alzheimer‘s and their caregivers, at the same time encouraging them to participate in artistic activities and artistic creation through art workshops. Tenemos cita con el arte has been designed as a program of visits of the Prado Museum and the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Museum. The program also has included participation in workshops on visual arts and artistic creativity in the Faculty of Fine Arts. The program was undertaken between October and December 2015 with a group of 15 participants (Alzheimer‘s patients, caregivers, and other health and social workers).
Community projects based on Art & Health: A collaboration between the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and Madrid city council's Madrid Salud Service
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Ávila, Noemí; Orellana, Ana M.; Claver, María Dolores; Borrego Hernando, Olga; Antúnez, Noelia; García Cano, Marta; Segura del Pozo, Javier; Belver, Manuel H.; Martínez Cortés, Mercedes; Martínez, Catalina; Jambers, Brigitte; Cortés, Fátima; Yeves, Laura; Soto, María del Carmen
In 2011 the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, and Madrid City Council's Health Promotion and Prevention Service (Madrid Salud Service) signed a collaboration agreement for developing joint projects and activities. This mutual collaboration agreement has generated an extremely active working network, in which university students supported by health service professionals plus Faculty academics and researchers have designed, and developed, community projects based on art and health with a number of groups (children, adolescents, women at risk, people with diversity, etc.). Across all these projects, both artistic creativity and art education have worked as mediators to offer significant experiences in promoting health. These arts programs (painting, drawing, photography, textiles, dialogues, and art appreciation) have been designed and developed by students for these communities and groups. These community projects based on art and health emphasise the capacity for commitment and collaboration of the groups and communities involved. Students and participants create together and in an atmosphere of trust, with awareness of their abilities and of the importance of art as a tool for changing their realities, in other words, as a tool for social transformation.
Mindfulness and design: Creating spaces for well being
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Porter, Nicole; Bramham, Johanna; Thomas, Martin
What is the relationship between mindfulness therapy and the physical settings in which it is practiced? Mindfulness is defined as "paying attention to what‘s happening in the present moment in the mind, body and external environment, with an attitude of curiosity and kindness" (MAPG, 2015: 5), however the qualities of the "external environment" are rarely discussed in relation to mindfulness. As mindfulness based therapies increasingly applied in clinical and educational settings, this presents opportunities to explore how the design of a space – from the arrangement of furniture through to the qualities of a room, building, landscape, or wider spatial context – may influence mindfulness practice and its therapeutic benefits. In this workshop, a combination of research presentation and therapeutic practice was conducted. Literature from landscape architecture and architecture was presented, evidencing the effects of built environment design on mental health and well-being and emphasizing notions of "biophilic design". Delegates were then invited to participate in guided mindfulness mediations, followed by facilitated group enquiry about the combined effects of formal mindfulness practice and the qualities of the physical space we were practicing within.
Architecture as a creative practice for improving living conditions and social welfare for Alzheimer's patients
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Quesada-García, Santiago; Valero-Flores, Pablo; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos
The purpose of this paper is to present a portion of the results obtained over the course of the work carried out as part of the "Designing tailored spaces for the absence of memory", research from the Healthy Architecture & City, Research Team at the University of Seville. The objective of this research is to determine the best physical environment for allowing Alzheimer's patients to carry out their daily life with the greatest possible safety, accessibility and independence. Here we share a variety of international buildings with architectural value that have contributed to the evolution and creation of a new type of arrangement for Alzheimer's patients. The principal contribution of this report is to define the characteristics of this new architectural typology.
Home and mental ill-health: Twenty dimensions
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Jäntti, Saara
In the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and care, home is often associated with health. In the context of deinstitutionalization, however, home has increasingly become the primary site of psychiatric suffering. Drawing on a two-year ethnographic research project with a drama group for young adult mental healthcare service users living in supported housing facilities, this paper presents twenty dimensions of home through which mental ill-health can be approached as a bodily experienced, and discursively and medically structured form of being in the world. These dimensions are here offered as a framework for further exploration of the social, spatial, temporal, structural and embodied aspects of psychiatric suffering.
Under the microscope
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Hall, Susannah; Layton, Sofie; Biglino, Giovanni; Ledgard, Anna
Under the Microscope is an arts research project conceived and led by artist Sofie Layton in partnership with GOSH Arts and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and University College London. Over 12 months Sofie explored how children and families interpret medical information and understand disease.Working with clinicians, researchers, patients and their families to understand the issues she developed artwork in response to these conversations, and created imagery and representations of disease, as well as the experience of treatment. The project culminated in a series of installations exhibited at the hospital and the Institute of Child Health. Artworks included 3D medical heart prints, interpretive heart sculptures, soundscapes, embroidered and embossed hearts made by Sofie and participants, and a sensory installation, which explored the visual landscape and intricacies of the immune system, and the experiential reality of a young patient undergoing gene therapy. Audiences were invited to "scrub up" and enter an interactive isolation tent with an accompanying soundtrack. Patients and hospital staff were invited to attend the exhibition and discuss the issues raised. The exhibits where also open to the public on bookable tours guided by young people from our Young Persons Advisory Group. Feedback was gathered from all participants and the public were also given the opportunity to comment. There was a highly positive response from both patients and clinicians, and the general public.
Professional interpreters and their critical role in ensuring communication with other-language speaking patients
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación., 2017) Lázaro Gutiérrez, Raquel; Vigier Moreno, Francisco
In our current societies, people from different backgrounds and cultures who speak different languages live together. This rich mixture of cultures and languages also implies some challenges for the functioning of and access to public services, including healthcare, as people who do not speak the official language of the place they live in have the right to access public services in the same conditions as native speakers. The barriers raised by linguistic and cultural disparity become even more obvious when healthcare is considered from a humanistic perspective, as language barriers in healthcare very frequently lead to a lower quality in health services, worse patient health outcomes and greater treatment costs. It has already been proved, however, that the best remedy to overcome these language and culture-based communicative problems is to resort to professional interpreters. This contribution describes a set of case studies that have been extracted from a corpus of real conversations recorded from medical consultations with patients who did not speak the language of healthcare providers. Our aim is to discuss how healthcare interpreters work (and how they should work) in order for communication to be improved and assistance to be enhanced through the intervention of professional interpreters.
Medicine and the muse: Opportunities for connection through education, research and shared experience
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Shafer, Audrey
Introduction: The Stanford Medicine and the Muse: Medical Humanities and the Arts Program is based at a research intensive medical school, which trains physician-scientists and lauds bench and translational scientific endeavours. However, traits which lead to scientific excellence, such as curiosity and interest in interdisciplinary work, are also traits necessary for innovation in health humanities. The Program began over 15 years ago as a bud of a research grant program for Stanford medical students. Initial emphasis on arts and humanities scholarly work as a track in medical education led to a multi-pronged Program with education, research, community-building and outreach missions. Methodology: Three of the multiple components of the Program will be examined. 1. The Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration which has supported over 120 medical student projects. A qualitative study of alumni of the Scholarly Concentration is currently being analysed 2. Cross-disciplinary elective courses such as The Art of Observation, held in the University‘s art museums with peer-peer interactions between medical and art history graduate students. 3. Community-building through creative writing and literature discussion groups for medical students, health professionals, and the support of Pegasus Physician Writers. Discussion: By initiating the Stanford Medicine and the Muse Program as part of the research mission at the medical school, the Program gained traction in the local culture. Networking across the University and beyond enables meaningful exchange and new opportunities. Program expansion, including writing and literature groups, respond to needs for community building and wellness experiences.
Workshop "Art therapy for an art therapist"
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Blanco-Barrera, Ramón; Spinola-Elias, Yolanda; Garrido Muñoz de Arenillas, Rocío; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Dibujo; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Psicología Social
"Art Therapy for an Art Therapist" was an experiential workshop presented at the 5thInternational Health Humanities Conference, Arts and Humanities for improving Social Inclusion, Education and Health: creative practice and mutuality – held in Seville (Spain), from September 15th to 17th, 2016. The main enquiry proposed to the audience was how to conduct an art therapy workshop for an art therapist. This key question addressed an important role in our teaching model, since it was designed to promote an autonomous and critical thinking among the participants to an almost Socratic style and to some more committed conjunctures according to Bain theory (2005: 118) and following the Experiential Learning (Kolb, Boyatzis & Mainemelis, 2000). The method used involved different phases and techniques, as a gymkhana or an art exhibition. The results pointed out the vision and thoughts of the ideal art therapists and the descriptions of the main capacities and abilities needed.
Birth professionals make art: Using participatory arts to think about being a birthing professional
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Hogan, Susan
In The Birth Project we are exploring women‘s experience of childbirth and the transition to motherhood using the arts and then presenting the research findings in films and exhibitions. Our overarching research question wishes to explore what role arts engagement might have to play in antenatal and postnatal provision, especially where post-birth trauma is being translated into bodily symptoms or depression. The Birth Project is also interested in investigating to what extent clinically-related birth practices are implicated in iatrogenic outcomes, especially post-natal distress. Furthermore, the research is also concerned to explore the birth experience from the perspective of the birth professionals involved. A suite of films has been produced and several shared at the conference.
The use of group vocal improvisation as a music therapy technique in a mental health setting
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Pujol Torras, Irene
Although group work and the use of voice and of improvisation techniques are three common features in music therapy practices, a systematic review of the literature has shown that the combination of these elements has been overlooked in the research. This review also showed an association between using pre-composed material when working with the voice and, on the other hand, using instruments when improvising. This polarisation of instruments versus voice when addressing production and reproduction techniques in music therapy is not made explicit in the literature and therefore the clinical reasoning behind it might respond to decisions other than clinically orientated. Instead, these implicit assumptions appear to have become established practices in the music therapy discipline. The present research project addresses the use of group vocal improvisation as a specific music therapy technique and attempts to look at the differences in therapeutic processes between this specific technique and a standard use of group music therapy, mainly making use of instruments. The workshop will demonstrate some of the techniques and will attempt to demonstrate their accessibility whilst uncovering the clinical reasoning behind the use of group vocal improvisation.
The body, the creative arts, and inclusion: A certified program experience “Find your own voice”
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Avellaneda Ramírez, Paulina; Buitrago Echeverri, María Teresa
The exploration and construction of creative spaces are essential for human beings, and allow for flexible individual and collective encounters in which the value of an individual‘s experience is not predetermined. The experiences and modes of expression of the participants are appraised in an environment in which the borders and paradigms of what one "should" do or how one "should" act are open. The creation of spaces where difference is valued and validated becomes a privileged pretext for the goal of inclusion, through which all of the participants can find, develop, and express themselves. This process has been conceived as a certificate program with the purpose of developing spaces of inclusion and encounter by placing the creative, sensitive exploration of the body at the centre. The creative arts allow us to be open to living experience and to the joy of the diversity. There have been two cohorts in the program, with a total of fifteen students, women, with ages between 20 and 35 years, from different backgrounds such as anthropology, preschool and special education, psychology, social and political studies, and the arts. We use methods such as DanceAbility, Biodanza, dance improvisation, music improvisation with the body, and voice and musical instruments, as well as storytelling and photography. The participants draw on their learning processes as a different way of understanding inclusion. They become better able to recognize their own creative nature and to apply their experience in their everyday work.
Take a photo a day and call me in the morning: Exploring photography projects and well-being
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación., 2017) Brewster, Liz; Cox, Andrew
The practice of taking a photo every day and sharing it online has increased in popularity across social media and image-sharing websites. This paper explores the potential well-being benefits of participating in this practice, examining the different social and creative ways in which participants use it. We interviewed sixteen people who currently participate in photo-a-day projects, and identified with the concept that participation in these projects had positive well-being benefits. Data were analysed using a grounded and iterative approach. Analysis focused on how participants derived well-being benefits in photo-a-day projects. Photo-a-day projects enabled participants to look differently at the world. There was something satisfying to participants about noticing the world around them more, perhaps giving a sense of being more alive because they were more aware. The negative impacts on well-being mainly centred around the rules and constraints of the projects, including feeling obliged to respond to comments. Nevertheless, photo-a-day projects gave a sense of agency and choice, focused around a pleasant goal. Sharing photos could enhance social connections and lead to new relationships. The structure of taking one photo every day encouraged reminiscence, looking back on positive experiences and negative experiences overcome.
Experiencing wellbeing at La Ruche d'Art: Methods and materials of an art hive
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Timm-Bottos, Janis
Involvement in the creative arts has a sustained and positive impact on mental and social wellbeing. Adding a third space for arts-based social inclusion, community engagement, and service learning for university students, provides a powerful vehicle for civic exchange across diverse demographics. Over time, a community art studio, aka Art Hive, provides a platform for participatory practice research leading to social innovation. This workshop recreated in part, La Ruche d'Art (The Art Hive), a university storefront classroom and a public home place for residents in a low wealth neighbourhood in Montreal. A public home place is a protected safe space, both psychologically and physically, which invites community members to share their skills and develop their unique voices. The workshop introduced theories, methods, and materials used in the Art Hive. Attendees assembled small visual journals based on creative reuse principles while sharing stories related to the relevance and scope of these special third spaces. Concordia University‘s Art Hive launched in 2011 hosts a network of 100 Art Hives across North America and Europe. This workshop encouraged participants to consider developing an Art Hive in their workplace or community.
Patchwork Stories: An arts project that celebrates and weaves our connections together
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Macbeth, Fiona; Ripley, Carina; Alrutz, Megan
Patchwork Stories is inspired by the tradition of using story as a response to people asking for advice and guidance. Our research project gathers personal stories and experiences to offer each other; stories that without advice or direct answers, tell us what it may take to turn towards one another. Founded in 2012 by researchers from the Universities of UT Austin and Exeter UK, Patchwork Stories explores the potential of storytelling in building community connections. Through an interactive storytelling process with community participants, an aural patchwork of personal stories and experiences is created and shared. Through a participatory installation, the process of weaving provides a physical representation of the interconnectedness between strangers and friends. This paper introduces "storytravelling", a flexible term to describe intentional acts of giving and receiving stories. Both project facilitators and project participants are "storytravellers"; the facilitating "storytravellers" create conditions in which individual contributions are nurtured and valued and the participating "storytravellers" contribute through sharing their own stories and actively listening to others. This paper outlines the process of storytravelling; engaging with simple acts of reciprocity that validate connection and community; making possible social inclusion and healing.

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