Dr Nicola Holt
@drnicolaholt.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the West of England. Interested in the arts and health, creativity, schizotypy and states of consciousness. Editor of Arts & Health. www.drawuwe.com
Now open access: Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 36, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2...
Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study
Background: Reducing anxiety and depression in adolescents is a global health priority. Personal and social resources (e.g., hobbies and socialising) may reduce distress. Yet, there is insufficient...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Now open access: Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 36, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2...
Emphasising that the arts are good for one's health, is as imprecise as stating medicine has health benefits. By using generic terms, we risk comparing apples with oranges. Pleased to share this piece co-written with Anita Jensen and Hilary Bungay doi.org/10.3389/fpub...
Frontiers | Apples and oranges? The importance of recognizing heterogeneity in arts and health research publications
Opinion Apples and oranges? The importance of recognising heterogeneity in Arts and Health research publications Introduction Policymakers and practitioners ...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Emphasising that the arts are good for one's health, is as imprecise as stating medicine has health benefits. By using generic terms, we risk comparing apples with oranges. Pleased to share this piece co-written with Anita Jensen and Hilary Bungay doi.org/10.3389/fpub...
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This new study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco shows art museum programs with medical student volunteers significantly reduced social isolation and improved wellbeing among LGBT older adults in San Francisco. 🎨✨
OPEN ACESS PAPER!
READ IT HERE: lnkd.in/gtTuaTrP
OPEN ACESS PAPER!
READ IT HERE: lnkd.in/gtTuaTrP
July 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This new study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco shows art museum programs with medical student volunteers significantly reduced social isolation and improved wellbeing among LGBT older adults in San Francisco. 🎨✨
OPEN ACESS PAPER!
READ IT HERE: lnkd.in/gtTuaTrP
OPEN ACESS PAPER!
READ IT HERE: lnkd.in/gtTuaTrP
Pleased to see that my comment has been published, along with comments by others, too, on Skov and Nadal's critique of arts and health research. I focused on one issue, complexity, and the lack of consideration of this in their analysis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Arts-based interventions: Why It’s Complex, and Why That Matters: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal
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July 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Pleased to see that my comment has been published, along with comments by others, too, on Skov and Nadal's critique of arts and health research. I focused on one issue, complexity, and the lack of consideration of this in their analysis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interested to see our systematic review mentioned in this news article www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Nature Art Prescriptions Support Mental Health in Vancouver
A first-of-its kind partnership in Canada enables clinicians to prescribe a visit to a nature-inspired art exhibition to support patients’ mental health and well-being.
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June 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Interested to see our systematic review mentioned in this news article www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
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Excited to see this will be available soon!
Very proud to be among the excellent names in one of the most broad and comprehensive tables of contents I've seen in an academic collection.
Congratulations, @drnicolaholt.bsky.social and colleagues!
Very proud to be among the excellent names in one of the most broad and comprehensive tables of contents I've seen in an academic collection.
Congratulations, @drnicolaholt.bsky.social and colleagues!
June 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Excited to see this will be available soon!
Very proud to be among the excellent names in one of the most broad and comprehensive tables of contents I've seen in an academic collection.
Congratulations, @drnicolaholt.bsky.social and colleagues!
Very proud to be among the excellent names in one of the most broad and comprehensive tables of contents I've seen in an academic collection.
Congratulations, @drnicolaholt.bsky.social and colleagues!
The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health has a release date :) www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health
This comprehensive Handbook defines, surveys, and critiques the burgeoning discipline of arts and health. It brings together the growing evidence base and discusses policy and practice from around the...
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June 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health has a release date :) www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
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New on the Psychological Sciences Research Group blog:
The use of the arts within social prescribing is expanding globally. But, what is art on prescription and what does the research on its efficacy suggest?
blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychologica...
The use of the arts within social prescribing is expanding globally. But, what is art on prescription and what does the research on its efficacy suggest?
blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychologica...
June 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
New on the Psychological Sciences Research Group blog:
The use of the arts within social prescribing is expanding globally. But, what is art on prescription and what does the research on its efficacy suggest?
blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychologica...
The use of the arts within social prescribing is expanding globally. But, what is art on prescription and what does the research on its efficacy suggest?
blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychologica...
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NEW ARTICLES: Enjoy three recently published articles which show a diversity of creative practices in healthcare, demonstrating the growing implementation of arts interventions across different populations and healthcare contexts.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
NEW ARTICLES: Enjoy three recently published articles which show a diversity of creative practices in healthcare, demonstrating the growing implementation of arts interventions across different populations and healthcare contexts.
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Stress levels are high for university students and they are at a high risk of poor wellbeing and mental health, particularly at exam times. Have you considered colouring with your cohort? We revisit a project exploring colouring for university student wellbeing. dx.doi.org/10.1080/1753...
May 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Stress levels are high for university students and they are at a high risk of poor wellbeing and mental health, particularly at exam times. Have you considered colouring with your cohort? We revisit a project exploring colouring for university student wellbeing. dx.doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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This international women's day we are looking back at three important research papers which centre the lived experiences and creativity of women. Join us in revisiting:
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--> "The power of the poem" lnkd.in/gK38qUQS
--> "Like a drawing of a breath" lnkd.in/gsm-zuq9
--> Am I Broken? lnkd.in/gV3ap_eB
--> "The power of the poem" lnkd.in/gK38qUQS
--> "Like a drawing of a breath" lnkd.in/gsm-zuq9
March 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This international women's day we are looking back at three important research papers which centre the lived experiences and creativity of women. Join us in revisiting:
--> Am I Broken? lnkd.in/gV3ap_eB
--> "The power of the poem" lnkd.in/gK38qUQS
--> "Like a drawing of a breath" lnkd.in/gsm-zuq9
--> Am I Broken? lnkd.in/gV3ap_eB
--> "The power of the poem" lnkd.in/gK38qUQS
--> "Like a drawing of a breath" lnkd.in/gsm-zuq9
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NEW ARTICLE! This paper explores the experiences and transition of a relational arts Academy to a virtual space for community artists with dementia from researchers at the University of Waterloo.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
March 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
NEW ARTICLE! This paper explores the experiences and transition of a relational arts Academy to a virtual space for community artists with dementia from researchers at the University of Waterloo.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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It's World Social Prescribing Day! To celebrate we have dived in to the Arts & Health archive to share two important papers you should revisit.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It's World Social Prescribing Day! To celebrate we have dived in to the Arts & Health archive to share two important papers you should revisit.
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Happy to have sent the Routledge Handbook of Arts & Health to the publisher this morning - I hope that the copyediting stage goes smoothly. Thanks to all of the authors for their work and for helping to create such a comprehensive overview of the field.
March 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy to have sent the Routledge Handbook of Arts & Health to the publisher this morning - I hope that the copyediting stage goes smoothly. Thanks to all of the authors for their work and for helping to create such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Art on prescription for health and wellbeing - a systematic review: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
February 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Art on prescription for health and wellbeing - a systematic review: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
New paper on adolescent wellbeing and daily life: Do daily happiness and nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities?: an experience sampling study
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732
Do daily happiness and nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities?: an experience sampling study
Background: Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) have been used in clinical research to collect data on emotional and behavioural states in real life contexts among different populations. Although...
preprints.jmir.org
February 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New paper on adolescent wellbeing and daily life: Do daily happiness and nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities?: an experience sampling study
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732
preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732
Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...
Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 0, No 0
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February 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...
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NEW ARTICLE! Dance harnesses humanity in exercise from University of Toronto researchers Caitlin Elmslie, Lara McCallion, Julie Vaughan-Graham and Kara Patterson. Read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2025.2461687
February 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
NEW ARTICLE! Dance harnesses humanity in exercise from University of Toronto researchers Caitlin Elmslie, Lara McCallion, Julie Vaughan-Graham and Kara Patterson. Read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2025.2461687
Busy writing the Introduction and Contents page for the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health - it is really coming together - still a lot of organising to do in the final weeks, but I'm very grateful for everyone's contributions and expertise as I begin summarising it all.
February 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Busy writing the Introduction and Contents page for the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health - it is really coming together - still a lot of organising to do in the final weeks, but I'm very grateful for everyone's contributions and expertise as I begin summarising it all.
Funny that this is my highest scoring article and 11th top scoring in the journal Art Therapy. I think it's because colouring is so accessible and so shared as a stress reduction technique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... routledge.altmetric.com/details/6528...
December 13, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Funny that this is my highest scoring article and 11th top scoring in the journal Art Therapy. I think it's because colouring is so accessible and so shared as a stress reduction technique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... routledge.altmetric.com/details/6528...
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We have a systematic review of arts on prescription published: The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis - www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Frontiers | The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis
IntroductionThe evidence-base for the impact of participating in the arts for different aspects of health and wellbeing is growing. Arts on Prescription has ...
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July 29, 2024 at 7:56 PM
We have a systematic review of arts on prescription published: The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing: a systematic review with meta-analysis - www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
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Amazing 🤩 - I have found thousands of people who oppose NHS privatisation on Bluesky already!! 😮💙🌟
If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you follow me and repost this, and I’ll follow you back? Let’s see how far this can go Bluesky!….. 🤞
If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you follow me and repost this, and I’ll follow you back? Let’s see how far this can go Bluesky!….. 🤞
November 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Amazing 🤩 - I have found thousands of people who oppose NHS privatisation on Bluesky already!! 😮💙🌟
If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you follow me and repost this, and I’ll follow you back? Let’s see how far this can go Bluesky!….. 🤞
If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you follow me and repost this, and I’ll follow you back? Let’s see how far this can go Bluesky!….. 🤞
Enjoying writing a book chapter on the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing for the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health. I have organised the content into the following areas - and know much more about some of these than others!
December 4, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Enjoying writing a book chapter on the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing for the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health. I have organised the content into the following areas - and know much more about some of these than others!
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Want to know what’s happening with social prescribing in Australia? Read on dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Australian link worker social prescribing programs: An integrative review
Link worker social prescribing programs are gaining recognition in Australia for addressing health and social needs outside routine medical care. The evaluation of these programs is essential for info...
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November 14, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Want to know what’s happening with social prescribing in Australia? Read on dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...