Category: Child & Family Psychology

children colouring in against a beautiful blue wall in Yves St Laurent's garden, Morocco

by Kat Taylor June 30, 2020 0

Arts and culture in NHS children’s services and how you can get involved

In this post I outline reasons to take notice of the health benefits of the arts and culture, and waysContinue Reading

Art Therapist Jodie SIlverman's prompt for wellbeing

by Kat Taylor April 17, 2020 3

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology Social Inclusion

Culture at a Distance: Arts for Health in Isolation

Welcome One positive of the pandemic for me is seeing the increasing recognition of the far-reaching and vital roles ofContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 27, 2020 2

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology iTHRIVE news

Love Spreads: Three Minute Heroes comes to Greater Manchester

Three Minutes Heroes is an innovative project which integrates music and mental health in schools. Today we welcome Three MinuteContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 7, 2020 2

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology devolution Evaluation iTHRIVE

Supporting the arts sector to sing to health, commissioning and policy makers

We know that in children’s services, conventional interventions result in modest outcomes: around half of those who access Child andContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor November 13, 2019 3

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology devolution news

Doing Things Differently: the first six months of Greater Manchester’s Arts, Culture & Mental Health Programme

In April 2019, the GM i-THRIVE team leading the transformation of children’s services in Greater Manchester established the Arts, CultureContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor July 19, 2019 0

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology Churchill Fellowships devolution mental health news Recovery

Greater Manchester’s Arts, Culture and Mental Health Programme and your local child & family services

iTHRIVE is Greater Manchester’s transformation of children’s services, based on the solution-focussed national framework for CAMHS (Child and AdolescentContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor March 27, 2018 1

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology Prison, Incarceration

Rikers Island prison complex: literacy for incarcerated youth

Gigi Blanchard came to New York from St, Louis, and identifies with incarcerated youth having done time as a juvenileContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 27, 2018 1

Child & Family Psychology Churchill Fellowships Prison, Incarceration

TeleVisiting: taking parties into prisons at the New York Society for Ethical Culture

One Sunday I accidentally found, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the New York Society for Ethical Culture (NYSEC).Continue Reading

by Kat Taylor December 21, 2017 0

Child & Family Psychology Healthcare Policy mental health

Creating healthy communities: unusual collaborations from New York University

From New York University Langone Health (NYULH): Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the second blog since embarkingContinue Reading

front page of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Creative Care Kit

Creative Care Kits, a number of Greater Manchester organisations led by GMCA worked together to create and distribute 22,000 Kit to young people without access to the internet during lockdown.A second Kity was also delivered in October 2020.

Three Minute Heroes launch

Image fro IG Kultur publication, Austria https://www.igkultur.at/artikel/arts-prescription-new-kind-medicine

Culture Politic International, Dec 2019 Keynote at EU policy workshop in Vienna

GM Arts, Culture and Mental Health feature month

The Winston Churchill Trust's Travelling Fellowship

Exhibition and talks from by Will Self and Profesor Jphn Read John Baldessari – Matthew Buckingham – Sophie Calle – Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Moyra Davey – Luke Fowler – Gillian Wearing – Catherine Yass The modern city has frequently been identified through its intensity – a busy and bustling environment of potentially creative and productive activity. For the spectator, this intensity can also tip over into a state in which reality is temporarily obscured. It is this finely balanced state which the exhibition explores, the condition of urban psychosis is presented as a recurring theme, a shadow which continues to haunt the city. July 2014

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Research Artist Carol Hanson's installation at Green Man: Doris and Ivor's Carry On Cartoon Camping

The Human Library is an international equalities movement that challenges prejudice and discrimination through social contact. It uses the language and mechanism of a library to facilitate respectful conversations that can positively change people’s attitudes and behaviours towards members of our communities who are at risk of exclusion and marginalisation. http://humanlibraryuk.org/

Dementia and Imagination exhibition in conjunction with Chesterfield's famous Crooked Spire

BBC Radio Sheffield

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Public talk alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit by Margaret Edson, ‘Making Great Art Out Of Illness’.

Workshop space at Nottingham Contemporary

Research Artist Carol Hanson installation at Einstein’s Garden, Green Man festival