Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Robert King, Felicity Baker, and Philip Neilsen -- Lived experience: visual art and music in recovery / Patricia Strobel, Tom O'Brien, and Ann Bermingham -- Visual arts: principles and evidence base / Claire Edwards, Tom O'Brien, and Robert King -- Visual arts: multidisciplinary day program in practice for young people with severe mental health problems / Sandra Drabant and Robert King -- Visual arts: the place of the art exhibition in mental health recovery / Patricia Fenner and Margot J. Schofield -- Creative writing: literature review and evidence-based research / Philip Neilsen -- Creative writing: a practice-based account of designing and facilitating life-writing workshops for a group with severe mental illness / Philip Neilsen and Robert King -- Music therapy and mental health recovery: What is the evidence? / Claire Stephensen and Felicity Baker -- Music: the interface of music therapy and psychotherapy with adolescents in a hospital-based, consultation-liaison mental health service- eclecticism in action / Kate Aitchison -- A dance / movement therapy recovery model: engagement in stages of change / Anne Margrethe Melsom and Jill Comins -- The evidence base for dance / movement therapy in mental health: moving the body of knowledge / Sherry W. Goodill -- Applied theater for mental health: literature review and evidence-based research / Andrea Baldwin -- Respect yourself drama education program in practice / Andrea Baldwin -- Digital storytelling for the self-advocacy of marginalized identities: theory and practice / Sonja Vivienne.