An Arts on Prescription Programme: Perspectives of the Cultural Institutions
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An Arts on Prescription Programme: Perspectives of the Cultural Institutions Anita Jensen1,2 · Lars Ole Bonde3 Received: 30 November 2019 / Accepted: 19 February 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Research on Arts on Prescription (AoP) programmes are on the increase and the participants’ positive mental health outcomes are well-documented. However, there is insufficient research that considers the participating cultural institutions’ perspectives. A qualitative focus group interview was conducted with the participating culture institutions in an AoP project in Denmark. Representatives from seven cultural institutions participated in the interview. The data was transcribed and analysed using Braun and Clark’s (Qual Res Psychol 3(77):77–101. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa, 2006) thematic approach. The cultural institutions were positive about the interdisciplinary collaboration with the Center for Mental Health and benefited from working with groups of people with mental health problems. They considered the collaboration to have encouraged skills development by working with groups that they did not regularly engaged with. If cultural institutions are to engage with the mental health wellbeing agenda then policy-driven initiatives can support collaborations that involve groups of people with mental health problems. Keywords Mental health · Arts on Prescription · Cultural institutions · Arts participation · Interdisciplinary collaboration
Background Research on Arts on Prescription (AoP) programmes is increasing (Crone et al. 2018; Jensen et al. 2016; Poulos et al. 2019) and positive mental health outcomes for the participants are well-documented (Stickley and Hui 2012; Bungay and Clift 2010; Crone et al. 2013; van de Venter and Buller 2015; Sumner et al. 2019; Vogelpoel and Jarrold 2014; Jensen 2018, 2019a, b; Jensen and Torrissen 2019; Stigmar et al. 2016). Museums on Prescription (MoP) has also proven beneficial for participants with mental ill-health (Thomson et al. 2018) and some museums have been active partners in developing and delivering programmes where participants interact with the museum collection facilitated by a
* Anita Jensen [email protected] 1
Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
2
Primary Healthcare, Region Skåne, Sweden
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Professor Emeritus, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway
museum professional (Camic and Chatterjee 2013; Morse et al. 2015). There is an increased provision by public libraries offering ‘Book on Prescription’ programmes for people with mental ill-health (Chamberlain et al. 2008; Fanner and Urquhart 2008) and the number of librarians that are becoming Shared Reading guides is growing (Billington et al. 2014). Other cultural institutions, including theatres, facilitate projects and workshops specifically aimed at marginalised groups with a purpose of supporting inclusion, quality of life and wellbeing (Torrissen and Stickley 2017). In la
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