Arts-Based Research, Resilience and Well-being Across the Lifespan

Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining and theorising key concepts of resilience and well-being and arts-based research; Georgina Barton, Loraine McKay, Susanne Garvis, Viviana Sappa -- Chapter 2. Early childhood education, arts-based research and resilience; Susanne Garvis -- Chapter 3. How arts-based methods are used to support the resilience and well-being of young people: A review of the literature; Abbey MacDonald, Margaret Baguley, Georgina Barton and Martin Kerby -- Chapter 4. Building resilience through listening to children and young people about their health preferences using arts-based methods; Jane Coad -- Chapter 5. Promoting resilience in youth through participation in an arts-based mindfulness group program; Diana Coholic -- Chapter 6. Engendering hope using photography in arts-based research with children and youth; Sophie Yohani --^

Chapter 7. Using arts-based reflection to explore the resilience and well-being of mature-age women in the initial year of preservice teacher education; Loraine McKay and Kathy Gibbs -- Chapter 8. Joint painting for understanding the development of emotional regulation and adjustment between mother and son in expressive arts therapy; Rainbow T. H. Ho and C. C. Wong -- Chapter 9. Empowering in-service teachers: A resilience-building intervention based on the forum theatre technique; Viviana Sappa and Antje Barabsch -- Chapter 10. Overcoming a lived experience of personal impasse by creating a theatrical drama: an example of promoting resilience in adult education; Deli Salini and Marc Durand -- Chapter 11. Clowning training to improve working conditions and increase the well-being of employees; Reinhard Tschiesner and Alessandra Farneti -- Chapter 12. The reflexive practitioner; using arts-based methods and research for professional development; Cecilie Meltzer --^

Chapter 13. University teachers’ professional identity work and emotions in the context of an arts-based identity coaching program; Katja Vähäsantanen, Päivi Hökkä and Susanna Paloniemi -- Chapter 14. “Colouring outside the lines”: Employment and resilience for art-makers with disabilities; Tanya Riches, Vivienne Riches and Bruce O’Brien -- Chapter 15. Beating stress, the Swedish way: Time for a ‘fika’; Liisa Uusimaki -- Chapter 16. Using clay in Spiritually Ecological-Existential Art therapy: To “see”, to “listen” and to “understand” by hands; Jaroslava Anna Šicková-Fabrici -- Chapter 17. Picturing childhood connections: How arts-based reflection and representation strengthen preservice early childhood teachers’ understandings about well-being, belonging, and place; Alison L Black -- Chapter 18. Arts based research across the lifespan and its contribution to resilience and well-being; Loraine McKay, Georgina Barton, Viviana Sappa, Susanne Garvis.