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Background: Groups at high risk of severe illness/death from COVID-19 (older people and those identified as clinically extremely vulnerable: CEV) experienced increased restrictions, poor mental health and loneliness during the first UK lockdown. Methods: Seventeen older adults, eight CEV adults, one parent of a CEV child, and two family carers of CEV adults, shared their experiences of the first UK lockdown through various media: written reflections, interviews, poetry, videos, photographs, and visual artwork. Results: Through a positive psychology lens, five themes were identified: experiencing loss; community and connection; finding joy, hope and optimism; adapting to change; and sense- and meaning-making. Conclusion: High-risk groups fostered wellbeing and flourishing and formed a sense of coherence in a time of great loss. Engagement with artistic, creative, and cultural activities facilitated this. The arts not only provided a creative means of collecting data but was also identified as a central thread in the findings.

Empathy is an important aspect of therapeutic relationships in health and social care settings. Health educators can foster empathy development in learners through creative writing activities. Drawing on the humanities, specifically poetry, this paper offers strategies for educators to support empathy development in learners, with a focus on service user poetry and associated creative writing activities. We discuss how poetry can enable alternative perspectives about care to emerge thereby challenging previously held assumptions about mental and physical states. Using poetry can enable a rehearsal of empathy by bringing experiences to the learner in a safe and facilitated environment. Through creative writing activities, we believe that students can learn to better understand and empathise with others, as well as explore their own feelings and experiences related to caregiving, to support self-care.

Background: There is an increased interest in the role artists can play in care for older people. This momentum comes with the need to closer investigate the nature of boundary work of creative professionals in arts and health projects.

Methods: We conducted a responsive evaluation to provide a thick description of the boundary work involved in ENCOUNTER#9, an intergenerational arts project taking place within an older person care setting.

Results: Boundary work proved to be rewarding, yet messy and unruly. Although the lead artist had carefully planned and prepared the project and gained a broad commitment, not everything went according to plan. This led to friction and all involved put effort into adjusting goals and expectations.

Conclusion: We add to the conceptualisation of boundary work in arts and health by showing that it takes place on different levels: personal, relational, organisational and public.

The poem came to me after a particularly bruising appointment with a doctor at the practice I was then a patient at. It was after this encounter that I transferred to another practice. The practice was rated then as requiring improvement, and as a School Improvement Officer retired through ill health I understood what the implications were. I think this painful recall of my previous role had an influence on the arrival of the poem. I certainly was not expecting to write it. Since developing ataxia, I set myself the task of making my writing move from 'Mawkish to Hawkish', a metaphor I used when l asked to contribute to the 'Storying Sheffield' project under Professor Brendan Stone (http://www.storyingsheffield.com/project/). The metaphor of "trams" used in this project was chosen to represent tram stops in the city and I have used it subsequently in presentations to illustrate something about what rehabilitation can entail. The "Burden-gift" of living with rare diseases is something I have found clinicians have found hard to encounter and acknowledge that these are "new" to them, and patients being ambassadors a challenge; I have seen doctors Googling their queries as they turn away to go down the corridor, to return moments later to continue the appointment....Nature is generally perceived as being healing, and yet here was someone indifferent, impatient and unwilling to hear what my expert team at a Centre for Excellence were saying - so different in nature to what I had hoped for in that appointment.This variety of Pyracanthas might be named 'Schadenfreude'.

Purpose: To map the empirical literature with regards to narrative-based medicine interventions targeting burnout in hospital-based practitioners.

Methods: A systematic search of electronic databases (n = 6) and manual searches was conducted informed by the Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review guidelines. Papers were independently screened for quality. Semi-structured interviews were held with practitioners to further explore the acceptability and feasibility of the interventions from the review.

Results: The searches yielded 4,439 articles. Following screening by title and abstract, 73 papers remained for full-text review. Six papers were included in the final analysis. Gaps were noted in relation to reporting of intervention details, and of implementation considerations across the dataset. Narrative interventions were considered acceptable by stakeholders but significant issues of compatibility and feasibility were identified.

Conclusions: Narrative-based interventions are complex and warrant a systematic research approach. Addressing factors related to implementation in addition to mechanisms of action is essential to progress this promising interdisciplinary knowledge base.

Introduction: Creative art therapy (CAT) has become increasingly popular as a means of promoting positive mental health among adolescent refugees when accompanied by interdisciplinary interventions that engage families and communities. In this pre-registered systematic review (PROSPERO: CRD42022372538), we evaluated and synthesized the available literature reporting the use of CAT as a diagnostic, treatment and mental health promotion intervention with adolescent refugees, aged 10-24 years.

Methodology: We conducted a systematic search of the grey and black literature published in English and Arabic between 2012 to 2022 on 10 databases.

Results: Systematic database searches revealed 397 articles but only 5 met our inclusion criteria. These studies reported some positive outcomes but the evidence supporting the effectiveness of CAT as a diagnostic, treatment and mental health promotion intervention with adolescent refugees, aged 10-24 years is inconclusive.

Conclusion: The findings of this review point to the need for more methodologically robust studies that describe the intervention, implementation, and therapeutic approaches in greater detail to strengthen the evidence for the use of CAT with adolescent refugees.

Background: Growing attention is given to LGBTQ+ well-being, mainly using the minority stress model, although it's seldom applied in group therapy research. This study aims to investigate individual experiences and identity processes related to minority stress while exploring the effectiveness of group psychodrama on LGBTQ+ well-being and stress levels.

Methods: Seven LGBTQ+ participants aged 19 to 27 years attended 10 weekly sessions of group psychodrama. The study utilized a qualitative exploratory case study design, where interview data underwent inductive thematic analysis and were triangulated with quantitative data concerning well-being, alexithymia, and LGBT Minority Stress.

Results: Participants manage their minority-contextualized identity and stigma within their narratives, indicating that group psychodrama may benefit young LGBTQ+ adults by raising awareness and resolving stressors.

Conclusions: The study validates the minority stress model but suggests broader theoretical integration, emphasizing the role of social identity and therapeutic impact of psychodrama in managing minority stress.

Background: The creative process of visual artmaking provides an opportunity for older women to express themselves and explore their emotions, thoughts, and experiences. This study examined the roles of visual artmaking in older women's lives in general and in relation to the ongoing challenges of aging.

Methods: The sample was composed of 21 Israeli women aged 60-90, who indicated that they produced visual artworks on an ongoing basis. The participants' artworks were collected, and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted.

Results: A thematic analysis of the interviews revealed 4 themes: visual artmaking to address the challenges of older women's lives, artwork as a framework for doing, visual artmaking to support the wellbeing of older women, artwork as channel of communication and stronger ties with family members.

Conclusions: The findings contribute to a better understanding of the roles of visual art in older women's lives, especially in times of crisis.

Background: There are a lack of studies examining the effect of creative art therapy on older people. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of creative art therapy on reducing depressive symptoms and improving the quality of life among Jordanian older people.

Methods: A one-group time-series design (pretest, posttest, and follow-up) was adopted between June 2021 and April 2022 on 102 community-dwelling older people who suffered from depressive symptoms and low quality of life in Amman Governorate.

Findings: Significant differences were found among older people in pre-, post-, and follow-up therapy for depressive symptoms and quality of life. Post hoc tests showed a statistically significant reduction in symptoms and an improvement in quality of life from pre to post-intervention, which was sustained at follow-up.

Conclusion: Results suggested that using creative art therapies as a therapeutic intervention for older persons was effective in minimizing depressive symptoms and improving quality of life.