UNIT 11: EXPLORATION OF SPECIALIST STUDY AND CONTEXT.
HOW CAN PERFORMING ARTS IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH/ WELL BEING?
This unit is designed to enable students to understand a large of critical and contextual perspectives and approaches influencing performing and production art. You will look at a range of areas and sources which will enable me to produce a written piece of work encompassing your chosen subject matter.
Everyone has to pick a question to write an essay on. I am writing an essay on "How can performing arts improve mental health/well being". I picked this question because I wasn't very confident before performing arts. when I joined performing arts I felt like I could be myself completely, happy, jolly and not afraid.
I always look forward to going to my drama lessons because its a place where I felt I could be myself completely. People that have gone through something or those with a mental illness "DRAMA THERAPY" saves their lives it was also sometimes the only thing they could leave their house for.
People with health problems would go to drama therapy - they improvise scenes that explore topics such as self harm and suicide inspired by members real life experiences.
It also puts on performances for audiences - including staff at the trust and university students studying psychology and drama therapy to raise awareness of mental health problems and how they can effect people.
The arts can keep people well, aid recovery from illness, help people live longer, have better lives and save money in health and social care services.
The group educators people on living with mental health issues. It puts on performances and then holds a workshops to discuss what the audience what the audience has just seen.
Healthcare students find this particularly helpful as they can ask candid and picking questions that they might be afraid to in a clinical.
I came out of secondary quite depressed because I had a bad past. When I did my first performance L2 Performing Arts with my class - we take a bow and the audience are there clapping, I stand there thinking "Wow I've made an impression, I did it!".
Every performance is an achievement, the key themes the groups in drama therapy explores are rejection, loss, abandonment and grief - which are at odds with going up on the stage.
They add that the performances to highlight the needs for healthcare professionals to see people above and beyond a diagnosis = "If it enables them to see more than just a mental health diagnosis then we've won the day".
The arts valuable role in mental health is being recognised.
It can help boost confidence and make us feel more engaged and resilient. Besides those benefits, art engagement also alleviates anxiety, depression and stress.
The arts seem to have an important role to play in this - through offering help, promoting well - being and creating a space for social connection.
Getting included with the arts can have a powerful and lasting effect on health, it can help to protect against a range of mental health conditions, help manage mental ill health and support recovery.
There are many ways to engage in the arts and improve your mental health:
- Performing arts and health programmes led by actors, actresses, artists and musicians can deliver health benefits through particularly art programmes and art engagement in everyday life.
- When we talk about the arts we include usual and performing arts, such as a traditional craft, sculpture, digital art, text, dance, film, literature, music, singing, gardening and the culinary arts.
"Arts and creativity are an important part of the programmes we run at Mental Health Foundation, art can be a different and fun way to express and talk about emotion" Jolie Goodman Programmes Manager for Empowerment and later life.
Engaging in the arts seems to be growing in popularity as a way to improve your well being participating in the arts can enable people to deal with a wide range of mental health conditions and psychological distress.
The best part is that it helps people to improve that mental health through creativity.
The performing arts get people out from behind their screens and puts them in a positive society setting where they can build important social skills. Face to face interaction also promotes belonging and community. Research support that real life.
Ways the performing arts Benefit Mental Health
1. Creativity Increases Happiness
Being creative can positively impact your mood. When someone is using their creative side of their brain, they're no longer in the reactive brain.
A wondering mind is an unhappy mind, whereas a creative mood is focused on the present task at hand.
2. Encourage real life interactions
The performing arts offer opportunities for kids, teenagers and adults to come together in a community setting that demands in - person interactions. With increased levels of screen - time, less people are engaging with one another face to face. The performing arts people out from behind their screens and that real life group engagement improves mood and decreases depression.
3. Builds confidence
Performing requires actors to face their anxieties and be vulnerable as they display their talents in front of other people. Specifically, improvisation helps build important coping skills to decrease anxiety through a positive, non - judgemental and low stakes environment.
4. Safe space to share emotions
The performing arts offer a safe environment to express or reflect on difficult emotions. Through the arts, performers can focus, process and release their emotions in a way that is helpful for managing mental health.
5. Performing arts help us all
The beauty created in the arts through music, performance and language is beneficial to the audience. When we enjoy something, we get out of our heads and into the art, which creates profound emotional healing.
Performing arts can be used as the complement to traditional mental health treatment. The aim is to manage behaviours, process feelings, reduce stress and anxiety and increase self - esteem.
Self - discovery
Performing arts help kids, teenagers overcome anxiety, depression and offer emotional release.
Performing arts gives you the resources for your mental health to pause, learn and grow.
I believe performing arts can give children a vital creative outlet to express, raise your spirit to improve recovering rates of what your going through.
HOW CAN PERFORMING ARTS IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH/ WELL BEING?
This unit is designed to enable students to understand a large of critical and contextual perspectives and approaches influencing performing and production art. You will look at a range of areas and sources which will enable me to produce a written piece of work encompassing your chosen subject matter.
Everyone has to pick a question to write an essay on. I am writing an essay on "How can performing arts improve mental health/well being". I picked this question because I wasn't very confident before performing arts. when I joined performing arts I felt like I could be myself completely, happy, jolly and not afraid.
I always look forward to going to my drama lessons because its a place where I felt I could be myself completely. People that have gone through something or those with a mental illness "DRAMA THERAPY" saves their lives it was also sometimes the only thing they could leave their house for.
People with health problems would go to drama therapy - they improvise scenes that explore topics such as self harm and suicide inspired by members real life experiences.
It also puts on performances for audiences - including staff at the trust and university students studying psychology and drama therapy to raise awareness of mental health problems and how they can effect people.
The arts can keep people well, aid recovery from illness, help people live longer, have better lives and save money in health and social care services.
The group educators people on living with mental health issues. It puts on performances and then holds a workshops to discuss what the audience what the audience has just seen.
Healthcare students find this particularly helpful as they can ask candid and picking questions that they might be afraid to in a clinical.
I came out of secondary quite depressed because I had a bad past. When I did my first performance L2 Performing Arts with my class - we take a bow and the audience are there clapping, I stand there thinking "Wow I've made an impression, I did it!".
Every performance is an achievement, the key themes the groups in drama therapy explores are rejection, loss, abandonment and grief - which are at odds with going up on the stage.
They add that the performances to highlight the needs for healthcare professionals to see people above and beyond a diagnosis = "If it enables them to see more than just a mental health diagnosis then we've won the day".
The arts valuable role in mental health is being recognised.
It can help boost confidence and make us feel more engaged and resilient. Besides those benefits, art engagement also alleviates anxiety, depression and stress.
The arts seem to have an important role to play in this - through offering help, promoting well - being and creating a space for social connection.
Getting included with the arts can have a powerful and lasting effect on health, it can help to protect against a range of mental health conditions, help manage mental ill health and support recovery.
There are many ways to engage in the arts and improve your mental health:
- When we talk about the arts we include usual and performing arts, such as a traditional craft, sculpture, digital art, text, dance, film, literature, music, singing, gardening and the culinary arts.
"Arts and creativity are an important part of the programmes we run at Mental Health Foundation, art can be a different and fun way to express and talk about emotion" Jolie Goodman Programmes Manager for Empowerment and later life.
Engaging in the arts seems to be growing in popularity as a way to improve your well being participating in the arts can enable people to deal with a wide range of mental health conditions and psychological distress.
The best part is that it helps people to improve that mental health through creativity.
The performing arts get people out from behind their screens and puts them in a positive society setting where they can build important social skills. Face to face interaction also promotes belonging and community. Research support that real life.
Ways the performing arts Benefit Mental Health
1. Creativity Increases Happiness
Being creative can positively impact your mood. When someone is using their creative side of their brain, they're no longer in the reactive brain.
A wondering mind is an unhappy mind, whereas a creative mood is focused on the present task at hand.
2. Encourage real life interactions
The performing arts offer opportunities for kids, teenagers and adults to come together in a community setting that demands in - person interactions. With increased levels of screen - time, less people are engaging with one another face to face. The performing arts people out from behind their screens and that real life group engagement improves mood and decreases depression.
3. Builds confidence
Performing requires actors to face their anxieties and be vulnerable as they display their talents in front of other people. Specifically, improvisation helps build important coping skills to decrease anxiety through a positive, non - judgemental and low stakes environment.
4. Safe space to share emotions
The performing arts offer a safe environment to express or reflect on difficult emotions. Through the arts, performers can focus, process and release their emotions in a way that is helpful for managing mental health.
5. Performing arts help us all
The beauty created in the arts through music, performance and language is beneficial to the audience. When we enjoy something, we get out of our heads and into the art, which creates profound emotional healing.
Performing arts can be used as the complement to traditional mental health treatment. The aim is to manage behaviours, process feelings, reduce stress and anxiety and increase self - esteem.
Self - discovery
Performing arts help kids, teenagers overcome anxiety, depression and offer emotional release.
Performing arts gives you the resources for your mental health to pause, learn and grow.
I believe performing arts can give children a vital creative outlet to express, raise your spirit to improve recovering rates of what your going through.
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