Birth shock! What role might arts engagement have to play in antenatal and postnatal care?
Journal article
Authors | Hogan, Susan |
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Abstract | This article shares research findings for an Arts and Humanities Research Council project called The Birth Project (grant ref. AH/K003364/1). The Birth Project has been particularly interested to explore women’s personal experience of birth and the transition to motherhood using the arts, within a participatory arts framework. It ran experiential art-based groups for mothers and a further group for birthing professionals, each over a twelve-week period to solicit in-depth qualitative data. An innovative aspect of this endeavour has been the use of film as research data, as a means of answering the research questions (through selective editing) and as the primary mode of dissemination of the research results. Results elaborated and summarized here explore the ways women and birthing professionals found the intervention useful. The project analyses the distinctive contribution of the arts and concludes that arts engagement can play a vital role in both antenatal and postnatal care. |
Keywords | birth trauma and art; birthing professionals make art; childbirth and art; iatrogenic illness; mothers and art; participatory arts and maternity |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Arts and Health |
Publisher | Intellect |
ISSN | 2040-2457 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00013_1 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625062 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/625062 | |
Publication dates | 17 Jun 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Jul 2020, 13:41 |
Accepted | 20 Apr 2020 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Derby |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/92w16/birth-shock-what-role-might-arts-engagement-have-to-play-in-antenatal-and-postnatal-care
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