2024

Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing

Name: Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Code: CMS14326L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

It aims to provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of how the creative arts can contribute to well-being and health in healthcare and community settings and its role in addressing individual/community health needs throughout life.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Provide interdisciplinary understanding of the contribution of the creative arts to wellness and health in healthcare and community settings
Characterize the role of the creative arts in addressing individual/community health needs throughout life
Knowing creative arts programs/projects that promote well-being and health in health and community contexts, throughout life
Develop critical thinking and the capacity for reflective analysis on the role of the creative arts in well-being and health in health and community contexts
Understands the interdisciplinary relevance of how the creative arts can contribute to wellness and health in healthcare and community settings
Understands the role of the creative arts in addressing individual/community health needs throughout life
Summarizes the interdisciplinary perspective on the creative arts in the context of promoting health and well-being throughout life.

Contents

1. Creative Arts, Wellbeing and Health – its framework in Biomedical Sciences
1.1 The impact of creative arts on health, empowerment, and participation
1.2 Psychophysiological links between cultural activities and public health
1.3 Ethical issues in arts-based health intervention

2: Creative Arts, Wellbeing and Health across the life span
2.1 The value of creative arts in wellbeing and health
2.2 The power of Music and Voice in wellbeing and health across the life span
2.3 The influence of Dance and Drama in wellbeing and health across the life span
2.4 The importance of Literature, Poetry and Writing in wellbeing and health across the life span

3. Creative Arts, Wellbeing and Health in different contexts
3.1 Creativity facilitators of wellbeing and health in multiple contexts
3.2 Formal and informal communities as scenarios for public health interventions
3.3 Creative arts in health professional training and practice

Teaching Methods

Presentation (the theoretical (T)), classroom-based, and can eventually be applied sessions via platform moodle-uevora. training and simulation of case studies on paper and pencil and computer support (practical classes (P)); Individual and Grupal Tutorial Support (OT) to the development of a research paper about one of the contents syllabus; Preparation of a work of synthesis based on all the skills developed in the form of portfolio that contributes to 100% of the final grade.