Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement (2020)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Robson, M., McLusky, S., & Macnaughton, J. (2020). Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2(02), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-7913-2020-02-02

Purpose: For years, the Arts and Health (AaH) movement has been guided by values of art for art’s sake, practitioner as Artist and artist as Outsider. These values are instrumental to the effectiveness of AaH as a relational and process-driven tool f... Read More about Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement.

Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development (2020)
Journal Article
Harrison, S., Bierski, K., Burn, N., Mclusky, S., McFaull, V., Russell, A., …Macnaughton, J. (2020). Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 7(1), Article e000696. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000696

Objectives: A transdisciplinary research approach was used to develop a holistic understanding of the physical and psychosocial benefits of dance as an intervention for people living with chronic breathlessness. Methods: The dance programme was devel... Read More about Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development.

‘It’s clever, but is it Art?’ (2020)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., & McLusky, S. (2020). ‘It’s clever, but is it Art?’. Perspectives in Public Health, 140(5), 257-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913920922274

In this article, Yoeli and McLusky speak to the fact that while there is no solid definition or explanation for the arts, when in the context of an Arts in Health initiative, it is important to know how the arts are distinguished from arts psychother... Read More about ‘It’s clever, but is it Art?’.