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Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies

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    The Arts Therapies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Insights from a Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange Forum
    (MDPI, 2025-05-01) Mondanaro, John F.; Armstrong, Bruce; McRae, Sally; Meyerson, Edith; O'Connor, Todd; Tsiris, Giorgos
    In October 2023, a Knowledge Exchange Forum was established, bringing together arts therapies staff and students from three different palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) settings: St Columba’s Hospice Care in Edinburgh, the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital in New York. Adopting a practice-led approach, the Forum offers a space to unpack questions and challenges that arts therapists face in PEoLC. In this dialogical paper, we outline the development of the Forum and share emerging insights from our cross-cultural discussions. When working in PEoLC settings, arts therapists are commonly required to work across a continuum of care. This continuum extends from individual sessions with patients, families and bereaved carers, to groups and community-oriented initiatives. It often requires a capacity to work flexibly and fluidly with regard to, for example, therapeutic boundaries, consistency of location, and time. Discussion of emerging insights leads to a consideration of their implications for education and practice, and for future directions in professional networking and knowledge exchange.
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    The arts therapist in public: The dichotomy of clinical and performative improvising
    (GAMUT, 2017-10-03) Haire, Nicky; White, Becky; Derrington, Philippa
    This paper presents a video of a performance at 'Concurrent♯2' in Edinburgh, 2017. it is followed by artist statements made in response to watching the piece. The authors' set in context the work and its development.