'Getting back to normal': The added value of an art-based programme in promoting 'recovery' for common but chronic mental health problems

Chronic Illness

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-75

  Makin, Sally ^a   Gask, Linda ^b  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; creative therapies; depression; recovery; social inclusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ART THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELAXATION THERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84856924380     PISSN: 17423953     EISSN: 17459206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742395311422613     Document Type: Article

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