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Reports

Internal Reports

• The final report from our initial Arts on Prescription Pilot project delivered as part of 'The Learning Revolution' funded through NIACE
• Chapter from the book ‘Songs of Resilience’ which features our very own ‘Michaelhouse Chorale’ project.

External Reports

The Mental Health Trust's second research bulletin, published December 2007 entitled ‘Research, Involvement and Changing Practice’ contained the following abstract:

Mental health, social inclusion and arts: developing the evidence base
By Jenny Secker, Helen Spandler, Sue Hacking, Lyn Kent and Jo Shenton

Abstract

This article outlines two strands of the national research study Mental health, social inclusion and arts: developing the evidence base that directly involved arts and mental health project participants. These were an outcomes study providing quantitative evidence of the benefits of arts participation for people with mental health needs and qualitative case studies with six arts and mental health projects. The case studies explored how people benefited from arts participation. The outcome study results provide evidence of empowerment, mental health and social inclusion gains with benefits. The case studies identified eight processes through which benefits were achieved.

The full report is available to download from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust web site, see:

Jenny's final report ‘Mental health, social inclusion and arts: developing the evidence base’ is available to download at:

• Mental Health, Social Inclusion and Arts: developing the evidence base

• Evaluating a participatory arts & mental health project: summative & formative results from the first year
  Jenny Secker Professor of Mental Health, South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust & Anglia Ruskin University
  Kirsten Heydinrych Arts Project Manager, South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
• The significance of choral singing for sustaining psychological wellbeing: findings from a survey of choristers in England, Australia and Germany
  Stephen Clift, Grenville Hancox, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health
•  An interim evaluation of the – Arts For Well-being – social prescribing scheme in County Durham [PDF],
  CENTRE FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES
•  Let battle commence - a service user's plan for service improvement [Word]
  Huntingdon Annual General Meeting, October 2009
• Recovery: working together [PowerPoint]
  Mike Slade, 23 September 2009
•  Participating in the Arts – a Prescription for Health Improvement [PDF],
  The Fizwilliam Museum 30 October Mar 2008
•  Mental Health, Social Inclusion and Museums and Galleries [PDF],
  The Wallace Collection 16 September 2008
• Arts and Healthcare, Hansard 6 Mar 2008
• Report of the Review of Arts and Health Working Group.
  Department of Health (2007) 
  London: Department of Health

Articles

• Healthy Prospects
  The Public Engagement Foundation – Arts Professional Magazine
• The Held Project.
• Mental Health Today 1
• Mental Health Today 2
  Three articles arising from the work of Wendy Teall and the StArt programme based within Manchester's mental health service provision.
• Arts in Healthcare video (YouTube about 5 mins long) from The University of Buffalo Centre for the Arts. Using more patients and program experience footage, the objective is to tell a compelling story of the program's benefits to patients, staff, and caregivers in the hospitals they serve.

• The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation for the Arts and Mental Health is a Registered Charity, number 1122845, established in 2007