Culture on Prescription: Collaborative Practices in Culture, Health and Technology

Name: Culture on Prescription: Collaborative Practices in Culture, Health and Technology
Code: MUS16533O
3 ECTS
Duration: 6 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Health Sciences, Music, Psychology, Teatro

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

General Objective
To enable cultural agents and health professionals to design, implement and evaluate cultural prescription practices based on scientific evidence, through a collaborative intersectoral approach, person-centred and integrated into local health ecosystems, with the aim of enhancing equity in access to culture and sustainable health responses.
Specific Objectives

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
Understand the conceptual, scientific and ethical foundations of cultural prescription;
Recognise culture as a social determinant of health;
Identify national and international implementation models;
Develop collaborative working skills between culture and health;
Build cultural prescription pathways adapted to the territory.

Contents

Module 1: Arts and Health and Cultural Prescription: scientific foundations
Module 2: Implementation models and experiences, at national and international level
Module 3: Particularities in creative health and mental health work
- Conceptual framework of Creative Health and Cultural Prescription
- Mental health, vulnerability and access to culture
- Ethics, boundaries and safety in creative health practices
- Aesthetic experience and care, relationship and emotional regulation
- Adaptation of creative practices in mental health
- Intersectoral work, quality and sustainability
Module 4: Flainair: example of an APP: the contribution of technology and its added value associated with Cultural Prescription programmes (https://www.flainar.com)
Module 5.1: Face-to-face workshop: Collaborative construction of pathways
Module 5.2: Final work and critical reflection

Teaching Methods

Collaborative interprofessional learning;
Integrated artistic experiences;
Real case studies;
Practical workshops;
Guided critical reflection.

Assessment

Active participation: 40%
Group work / project proposal: 60%