Publications - Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing

Adult Mental Health

Haslam, S., Parsons, A.S., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Nair, K., Harlow, J., Lewis, J., Thurston, S., Griffin, J., Dubrow-Marshall, L. and Karkou, V. (2019). Arts for the Blues – A New Creative Psychological Therapy for Depression: Pilot Workshop Report. Perspectives in Public Health. Volume: 139 issue: 3, page(s): 137-146 Arts for the Blues – a new creative psychological therapy for depression: a pilot workshop report

Parsons, A.S., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Karkou, V., Harlow, J., Haslam, S., Hobson, J., Nair, K., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Thurston, S. and Griffin, J. (2019) [online] Arts for the Blues – A New Creative Psychological Therapy for Depression. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. Available from: http://bit.ly/2G7l8jB

Omylinska-Thurston, J., Karkou, V., Parsons, A.S., Nair, K., Haslam, S., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Starkey, J., Thurston, S., Dudley-Swarbrick, I. and Sharma, S (2020). Arts for the Blues: the development of a new evidence-based creative group psychotherapy for depression. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12373

Karkou, V., Aithal, S., Zubala, A., Meekums, B. (2019) Effectiveness of Dance Movement Therapy in the Treatment of Adults With Depression: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses. Frontiers iN Psychology, Vol 10 p936. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00936/full

Meekums B, Karkou V, Nelson EA. (2015) Dance movement therapy for depression. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2015, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD009895. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009895.pub2 (Impact factor IF 5.912) Treatment-of-Depression/Zubala-Karkou/p/book/9781138210769

Karkou, V., Oliver, S. and Lycouris, S. (2017) The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-dance-and-wellbeing-9780199949298?cc=gb&lang=en&

Zubala, A. and Karkou, V. (2018) Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression: International Research in Arts Therapies. In collaboration with European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE). London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Arts-Therapies-in-the-Treatment-of-Depression/Zubala-Karkou/p/book/9781138210769

Simpson, P. & Richards, M. (2019). Reflexivity denied? The emotional and health‐seeking resources of men facing disadvantage. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(5), pp. 900-916. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12869

Simpson, P. & Richards, M. (2018). Using photovoice with working-class men: affordances, contradictions and limits to reflexivity.Qualitative Research in Psychology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780887.2018.1549298

Kim Wiltshire, Paul Hine (2014) Project XXX. Londo: Aurora Metro Press https://www.aurorametro.com/product/project-xxx/

Wiltshire, K., 1 Jun 2015. Project xxx-using multimedia theatre to explore sexual and emotional issues. Journal of Applied Arts & Health 6, 1, p. 33-45 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jaah/2015/00000006/00000001/art00004;jsessionid=1rq6uossq2ugo.x-ic-live-01

Adult Disability

Richards, M. (2020). ‘I am not disabled, I just need some help’: Are Critical Community Psychology approaches a promising way to engage with people with learning disabilities? In Walker, C., Zoli, A. and Zlotowitz, S (eds.) New Ideas for New Times: a handbook of innovative community and clinical psychologies.

Richards, M., Lawthom, R. & Runswick-Cole, K. (2018). Community-based arts research for people with learning disabilities: challenging misconceptions about learning disabilities. Disability and Society, 34(2), pp. 204-227. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2018.1522243

Richards, M. (2017). ‘Angry, when things don’t go my own way’: what it means to be gay with learning disabilities? Disability and Society, 32(8), pp. 1165-1179. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2017.1352489

Children and Families

Moula. Z., Karkou, V., Powell, J. (2019) A pilot cross-over randomised controlled trial of child-focused process and outcome evaluation of arts therapies at primary mainstream schools: study protocol. Arts & Health p1-16 https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2019.1703198. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17533015.2019.1703198

Moula, M., Aithal, S., Karkou, V., Powell, J. (2020) A systematic review of child-focused outcomes and assessments of arts therapies delivered in primary mainstream schools. Children and Both Services Review, Vol 112. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740919313040?via%3Dihub

Moula, Z (2020) A systematic review of the effectiveness of art therapy delivered in school-based settings to children aged 5–12 years International Journal of Art Therapy pp 1-12 Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2020.1751219.

Aithal.S., Moula.Z., Karkou.V., Karaminis.T, Makris.S (under review, 2020). A systematic review on the contribution of dance movement psychotherapy towards the wellbeing of children on the autism spectrum. Submitted for publication in the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Protocol published in PROSPERO (2018) CRD42018087912 Available from: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?ID=CRD42018087912

Aithal.S., Karkou. V., Gnanavel. K. (under review, 2020). Resilience Enhancement in Caregivers of Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder through Dance Movement Psychotherapy. Submitted for publication.

Aithal.S., Gnanavel.K., Karkou.V., Pushpavathi.M. (2019). Backing the backbones – A feasibility study on the effectiveness of dance movement psychotherapy on parenting stress in caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Arts in Psychotherapy, 64,69-76. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197455618300832?via%3Dihub

Aithal.S., Karkou.V., Powell. J., Makris.S., Karaminis.T. (invited book chapter, 2020). The Eternal Dance of Windmills- – Development of a Dance Movement Psychotherapy Intervention Protocol for the Caregivers of Children with an ASD. Submitted for publication as a chapter in the book by European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education on the theme Imagining Windmills: trust, truth and the unknown in the arts therapies.

Aithal.S., Powell. J., Karkou.V., Karaminis.T., Makris.S. (abstract accepted, article in preparation, 2020) A Dance Movement Psychotherapy Intervention for the Wellbeing of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot Intervention Study. Submitted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology

Aithal.S., Powell. J., Karkou.V., Karaminis.T., Makris.S. (in preparation, 2020). The Unknown Steerer of the Windmill: The Role of Dance Movement Psychotherapy for the Caregivers of Children with ASD.

Foster, V (2018) Barlows’ Cunning Little Vixen: An Evaluation of the European Opera Centre’s First Educational Project. https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/20055087/Final+Report.pdf

Simic, L., Anderson, N. & Anderson, S., 8 Feb 2020, (Accepted/In press) Three Conversations. Studies in the Maternal p1-7.

Simic, L. & Underwood-Lee, E., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Returning to Ourselves: Medea/Mothers’ Clothes and Patience one decade on. The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art. Marchevska, E. & Walkerdine, V. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group

Simic, L., Epp Buller, R. & Underwood-Lee, E., 1 Oct 2019. The Body in Letters:Once Again, Through Time and Space. Inappropriate Bodies:Art, Design, and Maternity. Epp Buller, R. & Reeve, C. (eds.). Bradford, Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, p. 331-344

Vathi, Z. (2017). The interface between return migration and psycho-social wellbeing. In Vathi, Z. and King, R. (Eds.): Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families. London: Routledge.

Vathi, Z. and King, R. (Eds.) (2017). Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families. London: Routledge.

Vathi, Z. and Duci, V. (2016). Making other dreams: The impact of migration on the psychosocial wellbeing of Albanian-origin children upon their families’ return to Albania. Childhood 23 (1): 53-68.

Older People

Lyons, S., Karkou, V., Roe, B., Meekums, B. & Richards, M. (2018). What research evidence is there that dance movement therapy improves the health and wellbeing of older adults with dementia? A systematic review and descriptive narrative summary.The Arts in Psychotherapy, 60, pp. 32-40. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197455617301466https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197455617301466

Karkou V, Meekums B. (2014) Dance movement therapy for dementia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2014, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD011022. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011022. (IF 5.912)

People and Their Communities

Foster, V., 24 May 2019. The Return of the Surreal: Towards a Poetic and Playful Sociology. Qualitative Sociology Revew 15, 1, p. 148-164. Click here for more information https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/4962

Kelly, L., Foster, V. & Hayes, S., 20 Jan 2017 Evaluating Drama-based Crime Prevention: Young People’s Affective Engagement with Performance Project Report

T. Brownett & O. Evans, ‘Finding Common Ground: The Conception of Community Arts Festivals as Spaces for Placemaking’, Health and Place, Nov. 2019

Vathi, Z. and King, R. (Eds.) (2017). Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families. London: Routledge.

WILTSHIRE, KIM., 30 Nov 2017, The Value of Nothing. 1 ed. London: Aurora Metro. 72 p. Link to document https://www.aurorametro.com/?s=the+value+of+nothing. For more information regarding this project and links for the theatre performance please click here https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/the-value-of-nothing-performed-play-and-published-by-aurora-metro-2