Developing a network for mutual learning on the potential of creative arts for mental health advocacy and activism in Ghana and Indonesia

建立一个网络，以相互学习创意艺术在加纳和印度尼西亚促进心理健康倡导和行动的潜力

• 批准号: AH/X009637/1
• 负责人: Ursula Read
• 金额: $ 11.11万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX009637%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; network; mutual; learning; potential

This project will create a network of researchers, artists and people with lived experience of mental illness in Ghana, Indonesia and the UK to explore the potential of creative arts to support advocacy and activism. Mental illness can be very disabling and people living with mental illness can experience discrimination, stigma and exclusion in areas such as education, work and housing. They can also be subjected to human rights abuses such as chaining. Creative arts including poetry, music, and drama, can be successful in engaging people in social issues, such as human rights and mental health, and campaigning for change. However there has not been much use of the arts in mental health advocacy in low-income countries and we don't know which methods and approaches will work best in different settings. It is important that people living with mental illness are included in decisions that affect them and enabled to participate in a meaningful way in research and advocacy. We will start with three meetings with people living with mental health conditions in Ghana and Indonesia to give time and space to develop trust and enable an open discussion to find out what are their problems, priorities and needs. This will include talking about difficult issues and listening to different points of view. We will take special care to make sure that people who are more disadvantaged, such as people with severe mental health conditions or who have difficulties reading or writing, are supported to participate. After these meetings we will hold two more meetings with the group and with artists in each country. In these meetings artists will learn about the experiences of people living with mental illness in their country and explore how creative arts could be used for advocacy. They will discuss the preferred language and images to be used and ways to keep people safe and protect their mental health and confidentiality. In the second meeting they will experiment with different creative arts to see which work best to support safe open conversations and deepen understanding.Finally we will hold a two-day workshop for mental health advocates, artists and researchers from the three countries to meet face-to-face in Indonesia. We will invite the group of people with lived experience of mental illness who took part in the meetings in Indonesia as well as stakeholders, such as caregivers, health workers, community groups and policy makers to the workshop. In these discussions we will share what we have learned during the group discussions in each country and identify the opportunities and barriers to including people with mental illness and promoting their rights in each country. During the workshop we will use creative arts to help people listen to each other across different levels of power and social status, ask questions and reach decisions.During the visit to Indonesia we will launch the network and our website. Our aim is to include more people from different countries in the network and to develop activities using the arts for mental health advocacy together. We will write papers, hold webinars and seminars and advertise the network on social media and radio and television in each country. We will write guidelines based on what we have learned which can be used by people with lived experience and their families, artists, researchers, and activists who want to use arts in advocacy to promote the rights of people living with mental illness.

该项目将在加纳，印度尼西亚和英国建立一个研究人员，艺术家和具有精神疾病经验的人们的网络，以探索创意艺术的潜力，以支持倡导和行动主义。精神疾病可能非常残疾，患有精神疾病的人可以在教育，工作和住房等领域遭受歧视，污名和排斥。他们也可以遭受诸如链接之类的人权侵犯。包括诗歌，音乐和戏剧在内的创意艺术可以成功地吸引人们参与社会问题，例如人权和心理健康以及改变变革。但是，在低收入国家，在心理健康倡导中的艺术并不多，我们不知道哪些方法和方法在不同的环境中最有效。重要的是要将患有精神疾病的人包括在影响他们的决策中，并能够以有意义的方式参与研究和倡导。我们将从加纳和印度尼西亚患有心理健康状况的人们进行三场会议开始，以腾出时间和空间来发展信任，并进行公开讨论，以找出他们的问题，优先事项和需求。这将包括谈论困难问题和倾听不同的观点。我们将特别注意确保更弱势群体的人，例如患有严重心理健康状况或阅读或写作困难的人，都支持参加。在这些会议之后，我们将与团队和每个国家的艺术家举行两次会议。在这些会议中，艺术家将了解其国家患有精神疾病的人们的经历，并探讨如何将创意艺术用于倡导。他们将讨论要使用的首选语言和图像，以及确保人们安全并保护其心理健康和机密性的方法。在第二次会议上，他们将尝试不同的创意艺术，以了解哪种最能支持安全的公开对话并加深理解。我们将举办为期两天的心理健康倡导者，三个国家的艺术家和研究人员的讲习班，以与印度尼西亚的面对面见面。我们将邀请一群具有精神病经验的人，他们参加了印度尼西亚的会议以及利益相关者，例如照顾者，卫生工作者，社区团体和政策制定者参加研讨会。在这些讨论中，我们将分享我们在每个国家的小组讨论中学到的知识，并确定包括精神疾病的人的机会和障碍，并促进每个国家的权利。在研讨会期间，我们将使用创意艺术来帮助人们在不同层次的权力和社会地位上互相倾听，提出问题并做出决定。在对印度尼西亚的访问中，我们将启动网络和我们的网站。我们的目的是包括网络中不同国家的更多人，并共同使用艺术来开发活动。我们将撰写论文，举办网络研讨会和研讨会，并在每个国家 /地区的社交媒体以及广播电视上宣传网络。我们将根据我们所学到的知识来撰写指南，这些人可以使用经验丰富的人及其家人，艺术家，研究人员和激进主义者，他们想利用艺术来倡导促进精神疾病的人的权利。