Promoting Health Through Creativity For Professionals in Health, Arts and Education

This book is about redefining the health values of creativity. Schmid evidences that creativity is more than the capacity to be inventive or innovative. It is more than the capacity to create great works of art or music or dance. It derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. Everybody has the capacity, and its successful use generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. Denial of creativity is a serious issue and is imbedded in modern values. Schmid expresses her views about important strategies for the future. They will require acceptance by health, arts and education professionals that everyday creativity is a resource of high value for health, particularly as it could affect the incidence of depression. She recommends new approaches to promotion policies, education at all levels, and research. Schmid says that such strategies, supported by long-term planning and funding, would assist in the alleviation of a problem that costs the community billions of dollars every year.Schmid, Therese is the author of 'Promoting Health Through Creativity For Professionals in Health, Arts and Education', published 2005 under ISBN 9781861564788 and ISBN 1861564783.