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Creativity for Mental Health: Seeking New Answers to an Old Question

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Mental health is one of the potential outcomes of creative behavior deserving of further research, as much of previous anecdotal and scientific evidence has offered conflicting findings on this topic. Integrating the expertise and methods used by scholars in different disciplines (e.g., art therapy, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, personality psychology) may help clarify the conditions under which creative behavior is or is not helpful for specific aspects of mental health, and generate new insights into the mechanisms that might explain such benefits.

Source: Creativity Theories – Research – Applications

DOI: 10.1515/ctra-2018-0014

Author: Marie Forgeard

Institutions: William James College, McLean Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Art Therapy and Mental Health

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2909779549

FWCI: 9.093

Cites: 13

Cited by: 9

Related to: 10