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“ask once, get help fast”<\/em> is the stated aim of the Mental Health Strategy (2017-2027) for how health and care teams can respond to needs of people with mental illness in community and primary care settings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “That [approach] will necessitate models that allow access to information about what people can do to look after themselves; signposting and support to access facilities in the community; and information about who is available to provide support so they can make informed decisions about what is best for them.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Arts Psychotherapies we have responded by exploring Arts-based Psycho-Education Groups<\/strong>, psychologically informed educational arts groups <\/strong>in community settings as a way of helping service users quickly gain access and support in their recovery. Each group is aimed at helping service users gain a reasonable understanding of how a mental health condition may affect their thinking and everyday behaviours, and connecting them with arts groups and voluntary sector provision in their communities to enable relational self-care and recovery<\/strong>. Our arts based psycho-education approach is part of the stepped care pathway that feeds into our resource in Community Mental Health Teams across Edinburgh and East Lothian often taking a Mentalization approach to working with people experiencing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). We also provide community based treatment for people accessing support for Eating Disorders as part of the Cullen Centre provision at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These are are the newsletters for the Arts Psychotherapies Community Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The arts being experiential in nature are particularly helpful in moving the learning from head based intellectual learning, into deeper body and felt learning. The groups can be co-created with people with lived experience; peer workers with personal experience of mental health needs and how best to self manage them. Groups are provided alongside arts-based self-care resources and signposting, some of which can already be found on this website in our Arts and Self Care<\/a> section, developed during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\nOur Current Arts Psychotherapies Community Provision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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