The Journal of Applied Arts & Well being serves a wide neighborhood of artists, researchers, practitioners and coverage-makers evidencing the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary use of arts in health and arts for well being. It has been developed to boost the profile of arts and health in Australia and to advertise greater integration of the arts and health observe and approaches into well being companies, settings and services. The drawings were grouped into 3 themes: the heart on the middle, the heart in the lived physique, and heart disease as a social sickness. Dr. Wong is President of Longwood Symphony Orchestra, a Boston-based mostly orchestra dedicated to Therapeutic the Neighborhood via Music.
Arts practitioners work with a large spectrum of sufferers in almost every setting, together with but not restricted to, nonprofit and for-revenue healthcare facilities, hospice programs, long-term care amenities, mental well being applications, schools, rehabilitation treatment centers, special needs camps, catastrophe response groups, psychiatric forensic items, veterans’ amenities, prisons, neighborhood facilities, wellness applications, and military bases.
We assessed how artistic expression as a therapeutic course of has been utilized in each clinical and informal practice to advertise wellness and healing. In the spirit of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, LSO …