Phin believes in the power of art to uplift and contribute to holistic well-being, collective community health, and overall vitality.
WHO Statement on The Arts and Health:
The creation and enjoyment of the arts helps promote holistic wellness and can be a motivating factor in recovery. Including the arts in health care delivery has been shown to support positive clinical outcomes for patients while also supporting other stakeholders, including health care providers, the patient’s loved ones and the wider community.
Research demonstrates that participation in the arts fosters physical and mental health and well-being
- Taking part in creative pursuits brings individuals an average of £1,000 a year in health benefit
- Cardiorespiratory optimization during improvised singing and toning
- Effects of music interventions on stress-related outcomes: a systematic review and two meta-analyses
- Effects of Choir Singing or Listening on Secretory Immunoglobulin A, Cortisol, and Emotional State
- Singing modulates mood, stress, cortisol, cytokine and neuropeptide activity in cancer patients and carers
- The intersection of art and health: How art can help promote well-being
- Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly
- Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participants' Responses Following Art Making
- Art therapy as an adjuvant treatment for depression in elderly women: a randomized controlled trial
- A Pilot RCT of Psychodynamic Group Art Therapy for Patients in Acute Psychotic Episodes: Feasibility, Impact on Symptoms and Mentalising Capacity
- Impact of Opera on Resilience and Thriving in Serious Mental Illness: Pilot Evaluation of The Center Cannot Hold Part 2 and Resilience Workshop
- Artistic Tasks Outperform Nonartistic Tasks for Stress Reduction
- Effects of relaxing music on cardiac autonomic balance and anxiety after acute myocardial infarction
- Testing the efficacy of a creative-arts intervention with family caregivers of patients with cancer
- Embodying heart disease through drawings
- A short-term intervention to enhance cognitive and affective functioning in older adults
- Empirical foundations for writing in prevention and psychotherapy
- Fiction, poetry and mental health: expressive and therapeutic uses of literature
- Effect of written emotional expression on immune function in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: a randomized trial
- The Health Effects of At-Home Written Emotional Disclosure in Fibromyalgia: A Randomized Trial
- Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participants' Responses Following Art Making