Thread by @camhEdu

1/ Poetry for mental health? We have the evidence! In this #CAMHthreaducation🧵 celebrating #PoetryMonth, #CAMHLibrary📚 shares research resources that shows the poetic side of #mentalhealth support.
#NPM2019 #MentalHealthIsHealth

2/ Sarah Bonato, CAMH librarian 👩🏻‍💻: April is #NationalPoetryMonth, the largest literary celebration in the world! Reading and writing poetry has a role in mental health as it can help with coping, growth, healing, mindfulness, recovery & transformation.

3/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: Both clinicians and mental health consumers/survivors have written poetry to capture lived experience. (See Poetry and Peer Support, from @cbcradio cbc.ca/radio/whitecoa… & Prize Winning Poet Turns Psychiatry into Art from @APA_Publishing psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.11…)

4/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: Poetry can be used in #MedEd (See Med Students’ Perceptions of Dementia After Participation in Poetry Workshop with People with Dementia ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… and The Role of Poetry and Prose in Medical Education ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… from @NCBI)

5/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: Here are more resources and research on #poetryinmedicine and the benefit for mental health support:

6/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: @UCSDHealth has an entire poetry section that's used for #MBSR classes via their Centre for Mindfulness: health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mi… #mindfullness #stressreduction

7/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: From @JAMA_current, Explore Poems Written by Artists and Physicians on the Experience and Meanings of Healing and Illness: jamanetwork.com/collections/44…

8/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: A @UofTNursing research project, Migration as a Social Determinant of Health that used poetry to capture immigrant women’s lived experiences: migrationhealth.ca/new-immigrants… #socialdeterminants

9/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: Poems in the Waiting Room is a very cool international effort to sharing poetry on cards for patients to read while waiting for care that they can take home. @poemsintheWR poemsinthewaitingroom.org

10/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: And @PsychTimes hosts a Creative Corner, with artistic works by psychiatrists, including poetry. psychiatrictimes.com/poetry

11/ SB 👩🏻‍💻: So take some time to read or write a poem, because it could be good for #selfcare—relieving stress, and promoting mindfulness and wellbeing.

12/ Find out more about #CAMHLibrary and reference services here: bit.ly/2u1EfVV #CAMHLibrary📚 #referenceservices #selfcare #MentalHealthIsHealth #NPM2019