{"product_id":"promoting-health-through-creativity-isbn-9781861564788","title":"Promoting Health Through Creativity","description":"This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. Current values do not give adequate importance to creativity, and the author challenges these values in this book.  \u003cp\u003eThe book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts of creativity both as individual projects and as groupwork.\u003c\/p\u003e  Contributors.  \u003cp\u003eForeword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e Promoting Health Through Creativity - an Introduction. \u003ci\u003e(Therese Schmid).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/b\u003e A Theory of creativity - an Innate Capacity. \u003ci\u003e(Therese Schmid).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/b\u003e Occupational Genesis - Creativity and Health. \u003ci\u003e(Estelle B. Breines).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/b\u003e The Therapeutic Benefits of Creativity. \u003ci\u003e(Jennifer Creek).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/b\u003e Factors That Encourage or Inhibit creativity. \u003ci\u003e(Frances Reynolds).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/b\u003e The Effects of Creativity on Physical and Psychological Well-being. \u003ci\u003e(Frances Reynolds).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/b\u003e Individual Accounts on The Effect of Creative Activity on health and well-being. \u003ci\u003e(Compiled and edited by Therese Schmid).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/b\u003e Integrating The firelight of Creativity. \u003ci\u003eSally Denshire).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/b\u003e Group Projects - Experiences and Outcomes of creativity. \u003ci\u003e(Compiled and edited by Therese Schmid).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10\u003c\/b\u003e What is to be Done? \u003ci\u003e(Therese Schmid).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTherese Schmid\u003c\/strong\u003e, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.   This book is about redefining the health values of creativity. Schmid evidences that creativity is more than the capacity to be inventive or innovative. It is more than the capacity to create great works of art or music or dance. It derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. Everybody has the capacity, and its successful use generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health.  Denial of creativity is a serious issue and is imbedded in modern values.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Schmid expresses her views about important strategies for the future. They will require acceptance by health, arts and education professionals that everyday creativity is a resource of high value for health, particularly as it could affect the incidence of depression. She recommends new approaches to promotion policies, education at all levels, and research. Schmid says that such strategies, supported by long-term planning and funding, would assist in the alleviation of a problem that costs the community billions of dollars every year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989876326629,"sku":"NP9781861564788","price":73.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781861564788.jpg?v=1761785756","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/promoting-health-through-creativity-isbn-9781861564788","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}