Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health

This comprehensive Handbook defines, surveys, and critiques the burgeoning discipline of arts and health.This Handbook is an essential reference for all advanced students, scholars and practitioners from a wide range of related backgrounds, including the health professions, psychology, education and the medical humanities

Nicola Holt is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the West of England, UK. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Arts & Health journal. Her research focuses on creativity, the arts, states of consciousness and mental health.

Elisabetta Corvo is a senior lecturer in Health Promotion and Public Health at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She worked as a Research Fellow for the Department of Public Health and Infectious Disease, Sapienza University, Italy. She is course director of the MSc Global Public Health and Mental Health and Wellbeing. Her current research is focused on arts and health, health literacy and social capital.

Victoria Tischler is Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research interests focus on ageing and mental health, in particular arts-based and sensory interventions to support health and wellbeing of women experiencing menopause and older people with dementia. She has expertise in the work of untrained and self-taught artists and has curated exhibitions and published on this topic.

Sofia Vougioukalou is Research Fellow at the Centre for Adult Social Care and the Centre for Trials research at Cardiff University, UK, and Associate Editor of Arts & Health.