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

• Author(s): Loraine McKay, Georgina Barton, Susanne Garvis, Viviana Sappa,
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Pages: 351
• ISBN_10: 3030260534
  ISBN_13: 9783030260538
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Developmental / General , Psychology / Research & Methodology , Education / Educational Psychology , Performing Arts / Theater / General , Social Science / Social Work , Psychology / Developmental / Child , Psychology / General ,

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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.