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Title: Towards the social prescription of the arts : the arts in health and social care in Malta
Authors: Visanich, Valerie
Attard, Toni
Keywords: Arts and society -- Malta
Art -- Social aspects -- Malta
Art therapy -- Malta
Well-being -- Malta
Malta -- Cultural policy
Premju tal-President għall-Kreattività
Human services -- Malta
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: Intellect
Citation: Visanich, V., & Attard, T. (2021). Towards the social prescription of the arts: the arts in health and social care in Malta. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 1-14.
Abstract: Recently, the notion of arts as therapy has been of growing interest to sociologists. The aim of this article is to evaluate community-based arts funded projects in terms of their priorities and effectiveness and discuss possibilities for enabling Arts on Prescription schemes in Malta. Thematically, this article explores discourse on the potential of the arts on promoting well-being. Methodologically, this article draws on primary data collected from focus groups, interviews and an online survey with project leaders and artists of funded arts projects targeting mental health, disability or old age. Specifically, this research evaluates all national funded community-based arts projects in Malta between 2014 to 2018 under a national scheme of the President’s Award for Creativity fund, managed by the national Arts Council Malta. Analysis of this data was used to inform the new national cultural policy on the implantation of the Arts on Prescription scheme in Malta.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/77904
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