Community Arts Therapy and Wellbeing

This research topic will present studies that utilize the arts—such as music, visual arts, dance, and movement —to promote community wellbeing, connectedness, cohesion, and collective health.

These studies may include the use of artistic media to foster relationship building, empathic bonding, and networking through shared experiences, ultimately contributing to enhanced community wellbeing.

The research topic will focus on showcasing successful case studies and implementation models of arts-based programs or protocols. Each study will highlight the unique therapeutic characteristics of a specific art form, emphasizing its inherent impact on people's lives.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Case studies of successful community arts therapy projects;
- Implementation models and protocols for arts-based interventions;
- Empirical or theoretical work on the therapeutic characteristics of a specific art medium or its components;
- Research focusing on the indigenous or culturally grounded impacts of the arts on wellbeing.

This collection seeks to highlight the diverse ways in which community-based arts practices contribute to mental, emotional, and social health at the collective level.

This Research Topic welcomes Original Research, Reviews, Methods, Theoretical and Hypothesis papers, Perspectives, intervention studies, protocol development, case studies, and concept analyses.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Registered Report
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Community wellbeing, Arts-based interventions, Therapeutic effects, Collective health, Empathic bonding

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.