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

URI permanente para esta colecciónhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/65318

Examinar

Mostrando 1 - 14 de 14

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thousand cranes: Representations of nuclear impact on the life and death of Japanese people
(Universidad de Sevilla. Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Gómez Aragón, Anjhara; García Fernández, Jacinto; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Enfermería
It is clearly assessed that stressful life events have influence on human illness. It is essential to know the impact these events had on the representation of health/illness and life/death dichotomies in the collective memory and their importance in the setting in motion strategies of health promotion. The study of these representations might help us to understand the impact on the idea of health/illness. The aim of this paper is to analyse the representations of the process of falling ill or dying caused by two stressful life events occurred in Japan: The atomic bombings in Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima. With a lapse of 60 years between them, both episodes are characterized by the nuclear impact on human health and social life. We propose a comparison of the representations of the concept of falling ill/dying through literary texts written by both Japanese and foreign authors. We will assess the cultural differences that exist in the fear of suffering: In the representations from Japanese people we find open-minded expressions of suffering as a path to acquire social knowledge, while in those from other countries, much of the focus is given to the heroism of others‘ suffering.
Brain fever in Gaskell's Cousin Phillis: Reading and hiding love in the body of Victorian heroines
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Rodríguez Pastor, Cristina
When we consider Victorian literature, it is striking to note the high number of novels that participated in the growing debate of the time around health, in particular that of women. This debate was encouraged by the attention nineteenth century medicine paid to the female body. Thus, there are countless examples of novels in which the heroine falls mysteriously ill at a certain point in the plot, disconcerting family and friends and requiring the immediate assistance of the doctor and the nurse. Contemporary medical theories warned about the somatic consequences of both emotional excess and repression, particularly in the case of women, considered by nature more emotional than men. Therefore, medical anxieties focused on women, especially bourgeois women, scrutinizing their bodies for external signs of emotion. The female body, subject to the medical gaze, turns into a text that offers her readers privileged access to her emotional life. Its vigilance and the control of her emotions was necessary to grant her health and that of the Empire. Despite the effort of doctors to acquire it, this ability to read bodily signs of emotion was directly attributed to women. However, it is interesting to analyse how novels like Cousin Phillis (1865) provided instruction in the emotional language of the body. Gaskell‘s novel supports medical theories about the threat of emotions to the fragile balance of female health while, simultaneously, questioning the supposedly natural association of women with affective hermeneutics.
A theoretical discussion of psychosexual illness – creative reading and writing as care
(Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, 2017) Williams, Hannah
This theoretical study outlines the application of creative reading and writing to women affected by issues of sexual dysfunction. A frame of the UK healthcare system and current treatment practices will be maintained, with a view to exploring the possible applications of theoretical reading and writing in self-care for those who are affected by these illnesses. The paper will aim to briefly discuss two primary female illnesses of sexual dysfunction, namely dyspareunia and anorgasmia, and their relation to theoretical writing as a possible care practice. The huge diversity of experiences lived by women who are diagnosed with these conditions cannot be overlooked, and this paper will not attempt to provide answers to all of the multiple and complex issues that women seeking treatment for psychosexual illness may be faced with, but will rather be a focused exploration of one possible treatment avenue for psychosexual disorders. It will be argued that a practical use of creative reading and writing in the sphere of psychosexual illness is not only possible, but could be beneficial to women affected by these problems.

Examinar

Envíos recientes