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Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies

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    Creativity in retirement: Psychosocial experiences of recently retired people participating in a creative arts project
    (SAGE, 2020-07-22) Burns, Jane; Oliver, Sue; Karkou, Vicky
    Aims: A growing body of research literature features the provision of arts experiences for the older person but less attention has been given to those who are in the early years of retirement. This qualitative study aims to contribute to the existing field through exploring the contribution that creativity, in the form of active participation in the arts, can make upon the older person’s transition to retirement. Methods: A total of 15 recently retired people in a Scottish town were invited to participate in a qualitative project which explored, using the creative arts, the participants’ psychological and social experiences during this period of transition. The emphasis was on participants’ active, rather than passive, involvement in different art modalities. An action research methodology was adopted, involving a circular flexible design. Qualitative information was generated through focus groups, participant observations and group discussions with participants attending arts workshops. Participants were also invited to record their thoughts and observations anonymously in written form. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Two co-researchers, who were recently retired people from outside the community, took part as participant observers. Results: Key findings indicated that the need to feel challenged and stimulated was paramount for feelings of wellbeing. The feeling of belonging to a community was considered important and could be derived from creative arts activities. Psychological and social benefits of arts participation were derived from active participation, primarily in creating original work. Conclusion: Participants had disparate experience of arts but were united in their search for creative fulfilment. Implications for appropriate provision were considered.
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    Subject benchmark statement: healthcare programmes, phase 2: Arts Therapy, QAA 05909/04
    (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, 2004) Waller, Diane; Dokter, D.; Gersie, Ailda; Karkou, Vicky; Redsull, Hazel; Sibbett, Caryl; Tyler, Helen; Wood, Chris; Woodward, Ann
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    Editorial
    (2009-08-01) Young, Courtenay; Karkou, Vicky
    This is the fourth volume and eighth issue of the journal, Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, and it is the first issue that Helen Payne, the editorin-chief and founder of the journal, has encouraged other members of the editorial board to undertake tasks for co-ordination, editing and writing of the editorial. It has been decided that, for the next four years, teams of two editors from the editorial board will take turns to write editorials, edit the submissions and co-ordinate the work for the journal. Each team is made up of a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and a Body Psychotherapist. The 'northern team,' consisting of Vicky Karkou and Courtenay Young, is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has taken the responsibility to edit the next few issues, starting with this one. The 'southern team,' Gill Westland and Helen Payne, based in Cambridge and Hertfordshire, respectively, will undertake the tasks involved with future volumes. We are hoping that this new structure of collaboration will offer a slightly different flavour to the journal, coloured by the editorial comments and choices made by the two teams.
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    Training and professionalisation in the arts therapies: Some examples and perspectives from Europe
    (2017-05-01) Karkou, Vicky; Tsiris, Giorgos; Kayafa, Diana
    Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from different European countries, this paper explores the diverse landscape of training and professionalisation in the arts therapies. As such different approaches and pathways of development are outlined alongside considerations of the sociopolitical conditions of different countries. After a brief historical note regarding the development of the arts therapies, we focus on training within modern European contexts and explore issues of collaboration and integration. Within this context, we discuss the role of professional bodies and reflect on the balance between shared standards and diversity in the arts therapies. This leads to a consideration of professional recognition and of its complexities.
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    Art therapy in the postmodern world: Findings from a comparative study across the UK, Russia and Latvia
    (Elsevier, 2011-04) Karkou, Vicky; Martinsone, K.; Nazarova, N.; Vaverniece, I.
    This is a comparative study of the development of art therapy in the UK, Russia and Latvia. The study is triggered by the belief that important learning can take place from fostering shared understanding and respecting differences across practices within a postmodern world that bears the danger of fragmentation and the loss of professional identity. Following a discussion of key postmodern ideas within art and arts therapies and historical references to the development of art therapy in the three countries studied, this paper provides an opportunity for empirically-based comparisons of practice. In particular, a questionnaire, originally developed by, was disseminated to all practicing art therapists in the UK, Russian and Latvian specialists using art and art therapy methods, Russian graduates and Latvian students of the first training program in art therapy (). Collected information relating to work environments, client groups and therapeutic trends were statistically analyzed in order to identify differences across countries. Mutual interactions and 'cultural borrowing' were also found and discussed primarily with regard to therapeutic trends. Despite methodological limitations, the study opens the way for future collaborations on the basis of informed understanding of art therapy practices across countries. Crown Copyright 2011.
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    The Labyrinth Project Revisited: Final Report.
    (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2009) Karkou, Vicky; Fullarton, A.; Scarth, S.
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    Editorial ( Review )
    (Taylor and Francis, 2012-05) Westland, G.; Karkou, Vicky