A few resources accessible through the internet that I find particularly useful:
‘The State of the Art in the Creative Arts Therapies‘ (2019): a very large number of open access papers on different aspects of arts therapies practice
‘What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing?‘ (2019): a summary and full report of a research by the World Health Organisation on the key role of the arts in the delivery and provision of health services
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/412535/WHO_2pp_Arts_Factsheet_v6a.pdf?ua=1
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329834/9789289054553-eng.pdf
‘Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing‘ (2017): an important report produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, highlighting the evidences and demonstrating the health benefits of engagement in the arts
‘Play as if Your Mental Health Depended on It’ in Psychology Today November 2016: an article emphasising the importance and benefits of play and playfulness for depression, anxiety, hopelessness and loneliness
‘Drama Therapy: Unlocking the door to change’ in Medical News Today March 2016: an article on how people with a range of mental health and social challenges can benefit from drama therapy
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/308452.php
‘Expressive arts therapy and windows of tolerance’ in Psychology Today February 2016: an article on how expressive arts therapies provide a safe distance for self-expression and reparation
‘Creative arts therapy and expressive arts therapy’ in Psychology Today June 2014: an overview
Dramatherapy: the journal of the British Association of Dramatherapists
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/drt
Drama Therapy Review: the journal of the North American Drama Therapy Association
https://www.intellectbooks.com/drama-therapy-review
The Arts in Psychotherapy: an academic journal publishing evidence-based research in the creative and expressive arts therapies
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-arts-in-psychotherapy
Dramascope: an online blog and discussion forum developed to facilitate an open, engaged, and critical dialogue pertaining to themes directly or indirectly linked to dramatherapy
https://thedramascope.wordpress.com
Developmental Transformations (DvT): A particular therapeutic approach that involves the continuous transformation of embodied encounters in a playspace
http://www.developmentaltransformations.com
The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: an international community of professionals and individuals committed to developing relational perspectives and exploring similarities and differences with other approaches to analysis and psychotherapy
Subversive Storytelling: a website that creates space for critical reflection on the use of stories that challenge the status quo.
http://subversivestorytelling.com
Collective Encounters: an arts organisation specialising in theatre for social change through collaborative practice, and using theatre to engage those on the margins of society, telling untold stories and tackling the local, national and international concerns of our time
http://collective-encounters.org.uk/news
International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM): a network of over 500 performing arts organisations and individual members working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide, and empowering performing arts professionals through access to international connections, knowledge and a dynamic forum for exchange
Practice-as-Research blog: an online discussion that looks at aspects of practice-as-research as a research methodology
https://practiceasresearchblog.wordpress.com
Performance Research: an online journal that aims to promote a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in the expanding field of performance. Its emphasis is on contemporary performance arts within changing cultures
http://www.performance-research.org/index.php
more to follow….
