Dying, Bereavement and the Healing ArtsGillie Bolton Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play. |
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... participation in creative activities (such as dancing), and more passive audience or viewer activities (such as paintings hung on hospital walls). Considering process-based and product-based forms of arts provision in more detail will ...
... participants in his survey feeling better or healthier having been involved in an arts activity with no word-based therapy. White (2004) reports a structured purely creative arts activity, which resulted in fewer 18 DYING, BEREAVEMENT ...
... Participants make their own choices, and remain in control of their activity and level of psychological and social involvement. Practice in the arts can encourage self-motivation and self-care. They encourage community collaborative ...
... participants themselves making video diaries at home, or writing a blog, or keeping a photo-journal of the passing year. However long projects last, whatever the division of labour in their realisation, however small or large they may ...
... participants to choose one that spoke to or disturbed them. More often than not, I have supplied 'probe' questions: 'If the image could speak, what do you think it would say?' or 'How does the image relate to your experience?' Five to ...
Contents
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6 Healing Arts in Palliative Care | 57 |
7 Imagination and Health in Cancer
Care and Palliative Care | 67 |
8 Visual Art in Cancer Care
and Palliative Care | 72 |
14 A Legacy of Understanding | 139 |
15 Reading to Help Practitioners
and Patients | 148 |
Survivors | 156 |
Artists | 164 |
Memorial Services | 176 |
19 The Art of Care | 186 |
20 Reflections Towards the Future | 200 |
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
| 204 |
9 Making Music in Childrens
Hospices | 88 |
10 Healing Writing in Palliative Care | 98 |
A Palliative Care Play | 113 |
12 The Power of Music | 120 |
13 Writing through Bereavement | 126 |
REFERENCES
| 207 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 212 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 215 |
back cover
| 218 |