Arts in Health Book Call for Abstracts

The International Journal of

The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP

New Call for Abstracts for upcoming book….

“Creative Arts in Humane Medicine”

Publisher: Brush Education, Calgary

Editor: Cheryl L. McLean

“Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” will be a contemporary educational textbook, a practice oriented collection which presents stories and illustrative examples demonstrating how the creative arts can be used in multiple ways in health professional education and practice.

This new arts in health book follows the success of the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Series, “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” and “Creative Arts in Community and Cultural Change”, edited by Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and Dr. Robert Kelly, Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, published by Detselig Temeron Press, 2010, 2011. “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” is a project of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and will be published by Brush Education, Calgary. The book is scheduled for release in 2013 and will be available in both hard copy and ebook formats.

About the Book

“Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” will be a much needed educational resource in contemporary health and education, a compelling and informative textbook for medical educators, physicians, nurse and health professional educators and their students as well as for those engaged as educators in the Medical Humanities, in Public Health, Health Promotion, Social Work and the Social Services and for others interesting in the burgeoning field of arts and health.

As its title suggests, thematically we are especially interested in how the creative arts are used in many forms to help foster humane medicine and to “humanize” healthcare.

We will be featuring compelling articles about the story of the work in action, contributions that move beyond simple descriptions of arts in health programmes. We want to know, what is the story of this work, the narrative behind the reasoning for using this approach? Was there a particular challenge or need that the work was addressing? What was the intended goal of the programme? What were the results? Although this is not a formal research collection per se, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a university level textbook which will be used widely by health educators. The methods and approaches presented should be described within a theoretical and contextual framework, citing available source references and research when possible or referring to other studies supporting this approach. Once the approach is adequately described there will be an “action” component to each contribution with some focus on how the approach might work experientially in practice with suggested exercises, and how to’s for other educators and professionals to help integrate the approach into educational sessions, workshops etc.

In terms of the shape of the book itself, the topics below are a general guide only. Please do not feel restricted by this list. We are open to considering other creative topic suggestions that deal with arts in humane medicine and healthcare.

Here are some important areas which have been identified as most relevant to medical educators and those active in healthcare education and practice:

Communication

Arts methods which provide creative opportunities for respectful and open human communication between and among healthcare professionals as well as between practitioners and patients, families etc. (moving beyond simple role plays commonly seen in medicine, how can the arts create dynamic opportunities to increase embodied experience and open the way for critical discussion and potential changes in practice and policy?)

Arts enhancing observational skills, fostering empathy (examples visual art, fabric art, drama, collage etc.)

Ethics

the use of the arts in varied forms to teach about the importance of ethical decision making and challenges (narrative, poetry, drama/other)

Story and Narrative

How story and narrative can be use effectively in medical education and in healthcare

Methods that help provide opportunities for expression/feelings/experience (narratives and personal stories from caregivers and patients, examples)

Creative Arts Therapies

Arts in Helping to Address Pain and Suffering, Stories of therapeutic modalities in action and practice in healing and healthcare

Humanizing Space: Creative Arts and Applications of Design and Technology in Health

Arts in innovative design and architecture, how design contributes to wellness and a healing environment, New ways technology can be used creatively to enhance health education and/or practice (example digital story)

Practitioner Self Care

Burn out, mental health issues, life balance, time management, stress reduction (mindfulness and meditation etc.)

Creative Arts in Aging and Health

Creative arts methods applied in aging and health for caregivers and older persons

How the creative arts can be helpful for physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals in work in death and dying and in palliative care as health professionals and families cope daily with the human realities of death, loss and grief

Multi cultural Perspectives

How other cultures use the creative arts in innovative ways in education and healthcare, aging and health etc.

Humour

How the art of comedy and humour can play a critical role in humanizing medicine/healthcare for caregiver and patients alike.

Instructions for Submitting Abstracts:

We are welcoming abstracts from educators, physicians, nurses, mental health educators and therapists and other health professionals as well as from artists and individuals with compelling stories to tell who have had personal experiences with arts and health.

Please send abstract only (max. 200 wds.) by email to CherylMclean@ijcaip.com as a Word email attachment, “abstract CAHM” in the subject line, before October 15, 2012 deadline. Double space. Please be sure to include your name, affiliations and contact information, email address.

Those selected will be asked to send full papers (max. 6,500 wds.) by December 15, 2012.

All contributors whose full papers are published will receive thank you copies of the book upon publication.

Kindly circulate, thank you.

info: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

100 Thousand Poets for Change in a City Near You

Poets converging for change Sept. 29 in a city near you. Moving communities to action.






London's happening.... Sept. 29 Landon Library, London Ont.

National Endowment for the Arts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Academy of Sciences host Arts and Aging Event

Workshop on Research Gaps and Opportunities
for Exploring the Relationship
between the Arts and Health and Well-Being in Older Adults

Friday, September 14, 2012, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Keck Center, National Academy of Sciences, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20001

The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Academy of Sciences will co-host a public workshop that will explore the benefit of the arts to the health and well-being of older adults. The workshop is expected to help inform the NEA and the NIH of potential opportunities for research in this area. The gathering will feature leading neuroscientists, psychologists, and researchers and practitioners in health and the arts, who will present findings from research on the arts and aging, in an effort to pinpoint gaps for future studies. Among the day's topics: How do arts programs for older adults affect
brain function? How does the design of long-term care facilities affect quality of life? How does art therapy compare to other treatments for older adults with cognitive decline? What's the cost-benefit analysis of arts in health care programs for older adults?

This workshop is the latest project of the NEA's Interagency Task Force on the
Arts and Human Development, an alliance of 14 federal agencies and departments
to encourage more and better research on how the arts help people reach their
full potential at all stages of life.
Speakers include:




For the full schedule of presenters, see http://1.usa.gov/PuDgB5


Guests may RSVP to Agnes Gaskin, National Academy of Sciences,
agaskin@nas.edu.

Media may RSVP to Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs Specialist at
202-682-5606 or giffords@arts.gov.

New IJCAIP Book, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

August 15, 2012

Leading Publishers Converge Creating Innovative Arts in Medicine Book

A groundbreaking new book in the burgeoning international field of arts and health has garnered support from two respected leaders in the Canadian publishing industry. The book, currently in process, is titled “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” and will be released in 2013. This is the third academic text book to be edited by The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP Publisher and Executive Editor, Cheryl L. McLean.

“Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” will be published by Brush Education Limited of Calgary, Alberta, operated by partners Glenn Rollans and Fraser Seely.

Rollans has been in publishing for more than 30 years. A leader in the publishing industry, Glenn has been the co-principal of Duval House Publishing/Les Éditions Duval (later acquired by Nelson Education), the director of the University of Alberta Press and the editor-in-chief of Lone Pine Publishing. From 1996-2000 Glenn was the co-director of the Business of Publishing program at the University of Chicago.

Seely started his publishing career 30 years ago at Oxford University Press. Fraser has been a leader throughout his career as a vice-president at the Heritage Group, the chief operating officer at Broadview Press, and the former owner and publisher of Fifth House Publishers.

Publishers expect the book, which will be available in both hard copy and ebook formats, will be a valuable study resource in medical education.

After the successful release of two books in the CAIP Research Series featuring the creative arts and research, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice", and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" published by Detselig Temeron Press, Editor, McLean sees the new book serving a critical need bringing arts approaches to medical education.

“The arts are alive and thriving in medical education today with the world’s leading medical schools offering progressive programming at the intersections between the arts and health. “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” will serve a critical need for resources and feature methods that value humanism and qualities of human caring such communication, mutual respect, empathic practices and emotional and patient centered connections between physicians and other healthcare providers and their patients while fostering arts influenced approaches that can open the way for humane medicine in education and practice.”

More info can be found at the book blog, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

Info: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

http://www.ijcaip.com

Arts Based Research Symposium Edmonton

Supplementary Issue IJCAIP offers Scientists a Place to Voice Discussions on Arts, Research and Ethics

photo © C.L. McLean

Coming Soon!

Ethics the Focus of Upcoming Supplementary Issue of IJCAIP

The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP announces a landmark supplementary issue of IJCAIP, "Ethics in Arts Based Health Research".

Scientists and others in the field of Arts based Health Research (ABHR) offer their views about potential ethical issues in using the arts to create and disseminate research.

Among the topics discussed are aesthetics vs. process, what constitutes "goodness" in ABHR, informed consent, arts in research involving humans, data ownership and the artist and ethics in data collection.

This issue of IJCAIP is certain to open doors for productive debate in arts and sciences as well as across other disciplines as it probes controversial and for many, sensitive research territory in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice.

Coming soon at http://www.ijcaip.com June 29, 2012.

Subscribe free to IJCAIP Journal with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "please subscribe"
Why subscribe?

Cheryl McLean, Publisher
website

Art in Public Spaces Has Powerful Impact

WENCY LEUNG

(From Friday's May 11 Globe and Mail article "Go on Share Your Thoughts on a Wall")

No heartfelt desire is too intimate to divulge, Candy Chang discovered. In early 2011, the New Orleans-based artist, designer and urban planner painted a wall of a derelict home in her neighbourhood and covered it with the sentence, “Before I die I want to ___.” She then left it up to passersby to fill in the blanks. Ms. Chang was blown away by the vast range and number of responses. Some were profound, such as “find my purpose.” Others were more shallow or humorous, like “own a monkey.”

“It shows how powerful our public spaces can be if we are given the opportunity to have a voice and share with one another,” she says on her website.

Ms. Chang has since created a toolkit and online guide to encourage others to recreate her “Before I Die” wall in their own cities. According to a website dedicated to her project, a dozen similar walls have sprung up around the world, from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Montreal’s Ste-Catherine Street (on which people offered answers such as “Before I die I want to smile”). Another 20 more, including one in Toronto, are either being planned or in the works.

Art projects that elicit the sharing of private thoughts have proliferated in recent years, as communities recognize the need to provide opportunities for individuals to express themselves.

“We’re seeing increasingly people of all ages, of all income levels coming together around these arts projects, who need a voice, who want to be heard and represented in this dynamic,” says Cheryl McLean, the London, Ont.-based executive editor and publisher of the International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. “Art uniquely offers a way for people to speak in a more visceral way because they are communicating physically, emotionally, spiritually.”

Ms. McLean, author of the book Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change, adds that these projects can also galvanize a community around a specific cause. “Typically, art of this kind is a catalyst for action and change.”

In 2008, for example, a collaborative exhibit initiated by visual artist Jennifer Marsh turned an abandoned gas station in Syracuse, N.Y., into a statement against oil dependency. The project involved thousands of participants from around the world, who crocheted, knitted and stitched individual fibre panels, with personal messages like “Give Me Oil Or Give Me Death,” that were then patched together and used to cover the entire gas station.

Another project called Pinwheels for Peace, started in 2005 by two art teachers Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan in Coconut Creek, Fla., has since expanded around the world. Participants create and display a pinwheel, bearing their written thoughts about peace and tolerance, every Sept. 21 for the International Day of Peace.

Ms. Chang, the New Orleans artist, has contributed to several other international art projects designed to encourage public sharing. One of them, Neighborland, uses stickers, signs and the website neighborland.com to seek community responses to the statement, “I want ___ in my neighbourhood.” Another, called Career Path, which Ms. Chang was commissioned to create on a pedestrian and bike path in Finland, invited people to fill in sentences stencilled on the pavement that said “When I was little I wanted to be___. Today I want to be___.”

Ms. Chang was not available for an interview but James Reeves, her partner at the creative studio Civic Center, says the enthusiasm and honesty shown by participants of these projects indicate a greater demand for non-commercial, and non-digital forms of expression.

“The average American sees three thousand advertisements every day – but how often do we see the ideas of our neighbours or encounter messages in public spaces that encourage conversation or personal reflection?” he said in an e-mail. He adds that Ms. Chang’s low-tech projects address “a creeping sense of digital fatigue.”

The idea plays off of the base human instinct to share one’s thoughts, says Candice Gibson, manager of consumer marketing at Tourism Vancouver. An example of this played out after the England riots last summer – thousands of residents created “peace walls” and “walls of love,” expressing their feelings about their communities on Post-it notes, tacked on boarded-up shop-fronts and the walls of buildings.

A similar phenomenon occurred in Vancouver, after the Stanley Cup riot. Residents scribbled their thoughts on the boarded windows of downtown businesses. The outpouring inspired Tourism Vancouver to create a website, thisisourvancouver.com, which aggregated online comments, photos and video content from members of the public.

“I think it’s just human nature … to reach out for support or to find people who are also maybe feeling the same feelings,” says Ms. Gibson.

Helene Burt, executive director of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, adds that these instances can help communities and individuals heal after disaster or misfortune.

“It creates a sense of ‘I’m not the only one out there and I’m not an isolated person with my problem,’ ” Dr. Burt says. “It helps people move forward and move beyond the pain of trauma.”

Back in New Orleans, Mr. Reeves says the Before I Die project had an unexpected, positive effect on the entire community. City authorities were initially concerned Ms. Chang’s wall would attract gang graffiti and crime. Instead, he says, the attention that the wall attracted made residents feel safer.

*the project by Jennifer Marsh was featured in the book "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" published by Detselig Temeron Press, C.L. McLean, R. Kelly eds.

See a copy of the Globe and Mail article here