Creative Health Review - Mental Health and Wellbeing across the Life Course Roundtable

Creative health can support mental health and wellbeing at all stages of the life course. It can be used in the promotion of everyday wellbeing, the prevention of common mental health conditions and the management, treatment and recovery of mild to severe mental illness.
This online roundtable hosted on Thursday 27th October 2022, explored the ways in which creative health can benefit mental health and wellbeing, from the perspectives of practitioners, researchers, funders and those who have benefited from creative health approaches. Speakers discussed how we can maximise the potential for creative health in the prevention and treatment of mental health in health and social care systems and through policy, and there was an opportunity for audience Q&A.
The session was chaired by Baroness Molly Meacher, Vice Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW), and included:
- Creativity and Young People’s Mental Health - A presentation from staff and young people from 42nd Street, a young person’s mental health charity which offers creative opportunities for all its young people, aged between 13 and 25.
- What are the current challenges in mental health and wellbeing, and how can creative health help to tackle these challenges? - Panel Discussion
- Embedding creative health into health, social care and wider systems in relation to mental health - Audience Q&A
The Panel Discussion included:
- Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair, Centre for Mental Health
- David Cutler, Director, The Baring Foundation
- Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology and Director, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Arts & Health, UCL
- Anne Longfield CBE, Chair, Commission on Young Lives
- Kiz Manley, Hip Hop Heals Founder, Tutor, Counsellor
- Sue Stuart-Smith, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind
- Debs Teale, NCCH Trustee and advocate for creative health
- Salma Yasmeen, Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Strategy and Change, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Agenda
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Speaker Biographies
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The Creative Health Review
This roundtable is the first in a series running throughout the year as part of the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG) Creative Health Review. The review will highlight the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely, including health inequalities and the additional challenges we face as we recover from Covid-19. A panel of commissioners, with a wide breadth of expertise, will translate the findings from roundtables and a public call for contributions into recommendations for policymakers to encourage and inform the development of a cross-governmental creative health strategy. We also welcome your participation in the review.
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