Arts-Based Research, Resilience and Well-being Across the Lifespan

Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining and theorising key concepts of resilience and well-being and arts-based research; Georgina Barton, Loraine McKay, Susanne Garvis, Viviana Sappa.- Chapter 2.Early childhood education, arts-based research and resilience; Susanne Garvis.- Chapter 3.How arts-based methods are used to support the resilience and well-being of young people: A review of the literature; Abbey MacDonald, Margaret Baguley, Georgina Barton and Martin Kerby.- Chapter 4.Building resilience through listening to children and young people about their health preferences using arts-based methods; Jane Coad.- Chapter 5.Promoting resilience in youth through participation in an arts-based mindfulness group program; Diana Coholic.- Chapter 6.Engendering hope using photography in arts-based research with children and youth; Sophie Yohani.- Chapter 7.Using arts-based reflection to explore the resilience and well-being of mature-age women in the initial year of preservice teacher education; Loraine McKay and Kathy Gibbs.- Chapter 8.Joint painting for understanding the development of emotional regulation and adjustment between mother and son in expressive arts therapy; Rainbow T. H. Ho and C. C. Wong.- Chapter 9.Empowering in-service teachers: A resilience-building intervention based on the forum theatre technique; Viviana Sappa and Antje Barabsch.- Chapter 10.Overcoming a lived experience of personal impasse by creating a theatrical drama: an example of promoting resilience in adult education; Deli Salini and Marc Durand.- Chapter 11.Clowning training to improve working conditions and increase the well-being of employees; Reinhard Tschiesner and Alessandra Farneti.- Chapter 12.The reflexive practitioner; using arts-based methods and research for professional development; Cecilie Meltzer.- Chapter 13.University teachers' professional identity work and emotions in the context of an arts-based identity coaching program; Katja Vähäsantanen, Päivi Hökkä and Susanna Paloniemi.- Chapter 14."Colouring outside the lines": Employment and resilience for art-makers with disabilities; Tanya Riches, Vivienne Riches and Bruce O'Brien.- Chapter 15.Beating stress, the Swedish way: Time for a 'fika'; Liisa Uusimaki.- Chapter 16.Using clay in Spiritually Ecological-Existential Art therapy: To "see", to "listen" and to "understand" by hands; Jaroslava Anna Sicková-Fabrici.- Chapter 17.Picturing childhood connections: How arts-based reflection and representation strengthen preservice early childhood teachers' understandings about well-being, belonging, and place; Alison L Black.- Chapter 18.Arts based research across the lifespan and its contribution to resilience and well-being; Loraine McKay, Georgina Barton, Viviana Sappa, Susanne Garvis.