Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice

• Main Author: Gillam, Tony (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
• Subjects: Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Psychotherapy .; Social psychology.; Arts.; Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Psychosocial Studies.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.

This book argues that some aspects of mental health practice have become mechanical, joyless and uninspiring, leading to a loss of creativity and wellbeing. A high level of wellbeing is essential to mental health and contemporary mental health care - and creativity is at the heart of this. A greater...