Bridging the Creative Arts Therapies and Arts in Health

This engaging collection lays out a compelling argument for the unique and exciting potential of the arts to improve health and well-being. – Renée Fleming, soprano and arts & health advocateEveryone helping others through the arts - therapists, educators, artists, in hospitals and communities - are natural allies. Welcome to ‘an idea whose time has come.’ – Judith A. Rubin, Art Therapist, Author and FilmmakerA timely book showing the role that the complementary sectors of arts and health and arts therapies can play together to improve health and wellbeing. – Dr Daisy Fancourt, University College London & Director, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Arts & HealthThis ground-breaking book shows just how much more of the vast potential of arts and health is revealed through collaboration between practitioners in the field, than when any of us attempt single perspective approaches. – Dr Neil Springham, consultant art therapist and executive director of therapies at Oxleas National Health Service foundation Trust

Dr. Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC, holds a PhD in Art Education and Art Therapy from Florida State University (2005) and has been a Board Certified art therapist since 2002. From 2018 - 2022 Dr. Betts was Clinical Research Director for Creative Forces® National Endowment for the Arts Military Healing Arts Network in the United States. She served as President of the American Art Therapy Association (2015 - 2017) and was a professor in the George Washington University Graduate Art Therapy Program (2009 - 2018). An award-winning researcher and author, Dr. Betts has lectured internationally on a range of topics. Through involvement with various organizations working to increase access to the arts in Canada and abroad, Dr. Betts continues to promote the power of the arts in improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of all people.

Dr. Val Huet is an art therapist, a group psychotherapist, and an organisational consultant. Her PhD addressed art therapy for work-related stress. She currently focuses on developing art therapy research.