What Works Wellbeing 10 January 2018
- This review looks at the subjective, or self-reported, wellbeing outcomes of visual arts projects aimed at adults who are experiencing, or have experienced, diagnosed mental health conditions.
- Overall, the evidence available in this review shows that engaging in the visual arts for adults with mental health conditions can:
- reduce reported levels of depression and anxiety
- increase self-respect, self-worth and self-esteem
- encourage and stimulate re-engagement with the wider, everyday social world
- support in participants a potential re-negotiation of identity through practice-based forms of making or doing.
