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Edge Hill University

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Vicky (Vassiliki) Karkou is a Professor at Edge Hill University in the UK. Her research focuses on arts-based interventions and their impact on health and wellbeing, as evidenced by her recent work critiquing current methodologies and exploring experiences in therapeutic contexts. She has contributed to various studies addressing mental health through creative practices, including systematic reviews on digital psychotherapies and feasibility studies involving music and dance movement therapy for dementia patients. Karkou's interdisciplinary approach also examines the role of arts in supporting refugees and enhancing staff wellbeing in healthcare settings.

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Arts for the Blues: Towards integrating the use of the arts in healthcare and cultural settings to tackle depression and improve wellbeing in the NW

Open Date: 2022-01-31

Close Date: 2023-01-30

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Effectiveness Of Group Arts Therapy Compared To Group Counselling For Diagnostically Heterogeneous Psychiatric Community Patients: Randomised Controlled Trial In Mental Health Services

Open Date: 2018-09-01

Close Date: 2021-11-30

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Collaborators (14)

Supritha Aithal

Academic, Lecturer in Counselling &Psy & CAMH

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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STERGIOS MAKRIS

Associate Professor in General Psychology

Università degli Studi eCampus

ITALY

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Joanne Powell

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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Linda Dubrow Marshall

UNITED KINGDOM

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Laura Viliardos

Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy

University of Salford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Joanna Omylinska-Thurston

University of Salford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Dr Zoe Moula

King’s College London

UNITED KINGDOM

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Shelly Haslam

Academic, Head of Dept, Social Work & Wellbeing

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans

Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Applied Social Science

University of Edinburgh

UNITED KINGDOM

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Emma Perris

Academic, Lecturer in Therapeutic Skills

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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Ken Fletcher

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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Ailsa Parsons

University of Salford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Fleur Farish-Edwards

Academic, Lecturer - Counselling and Psychotherapy

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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Lee-Anne Widnall

Counselling and Psychotherapy Lecturer

Edge Hill University

UNITED KINGDOM

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Comment on 'Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique' by Skov and Nadal - A critique of the critique: Towards a more nuanced evaluation of current research on the health outcomes of arts-based interventions

Experience of Latvian arts therapists working with Ukrainian refugees: interpretative phenomenological analysis

Supporting staff wellbeing in healthcare settings through multi-levelled creative psychological intervention – a feasibility study

Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’

Combining music and dance movement therapy for people with dementia living in the community: a mixed methods feasibility study

Preliminary findings on being and becoming: Exploring the experiences of Black Caribbean and African creative arts therapists

Experiencing principles of dance movement therapy practice within transdisciplinary environmental research in South Africa

Spring issue 2024, vol 19, issue 1

Summer issue 2024, vol 19, issue 2

Dancing the Blues: An interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and therapists

Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of school-based dance movement psychotherapy for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties

Qualitative and arts-based evidence from children participating in a pilot randomised controlled study of school-based arts therapies

Bringing creative psychotherapies to primary NHS Mental Health Services in the UK: A feasibility study on patient and staff experiences of arts for the blues workshops delivered at Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services

Editorial: The Psychological and Physiological Benefits of the Arts

A research-based map of music therapy in the Czech Republic: Comparisons with other arts therapies

Winter Issue 2022, Vol 17, Issue 4

Impact of Dance Movement Psychotherapy on the wellbeing of caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Systematic Review of the Contribution of Dance Movement Psychotherapy Towards the Well-Being of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Collaborators (14)

Supritha Aithal

STERGIOS MAKRIS

Joanne Powell

Linda Dubrow Marshall

Laura Viliardos

Joanna Omylinska-Thurston

Dr Zoe Moula

Shelly Haslam

Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans

Emma Perris

Ken Fletcher

Ailsa Parsons

Fleur Farish-Edwards

Lee-Anne Widnall

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