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Recruiting: Clinical Lead Mental Health
The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) is recruiting a Clinical Lead Mental Health for a project in partnership with Help Musicians which provides counselling/psychotherapy support to musicians. BAPAM is building on our successful long term...
BAPAM clinicians featured in Healthy Conservatoire Network site
A few of BAPAM’s clinicians have been featured in a new series of Healthy Performer films put together by The Healthy Conservatoires Network (HCN). The organisation which aims to support environments that promote and enhance the...
Season’s Greetings From BAPAM
As we approach the end of 2020 we would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas and New Year. It’s been a challenging year and we hope that 2021 will be better one for the performing arts. It was good to see many people join us at our online community drop ins and...
BAPAM Factsheet – Mental Health Support in a Crisis
As Christmas approaches and many offices including our own close for a few days to end 2020, we are very much aware that the need for mental health support amongst performers won't change. Indeed at BAPAM during the course of this...
Research Project on Musicians’ Health and Musician’s Focal Dystonia
Participants invited to take part in survey Anna Detari is a professional flautist and PhD researcher at the University of York, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her research primarily looks at the previously unexplored links between psychosocial...
Training as a Therapist: My Experience
BAPAM's new bursary scheme, in partnership with Help Musicians and PPL, provides support, funding and supervised placements for Black, Asian and minority ethnic performers and professionals in the music industry to undertake training to become a registered counsellor...
Self Care Tips for Creatives
Before becoming a counsellor, Denise Devenish grew up in a family steeped in the music industry and has been surrounded by musicians and people who work in the music industry her whole life. She has sung professionally, worked as a performer, and has a degree in arts...
Bursaries Supporting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Music Professionals Training as Counsellors and Psychotherapists
BAPAM (the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) has launched a new bursary scheme to improve cultural competence in therapy for individuals from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities working in the UK music industry. The scheme is...
Recruiting: Health Promotion Training Assistant
The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) is the largest provider of performing arts medicine in the UK. In the last year we have doubled the amount of health education we provide to support performance professionals to avoid health problems that...
Practitioners Online CPD Report: Lockdown Health of Performance Professionals
A vital element of our mission at BAPAM is supporting the development of clinical standards for healthcare in the arts, and sharing expertise with clinicians, healthcare and education professionals who support performers and creative practitioners. Although we miss...
Research on Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases Among Musicians
Researcher Lisa Wetzlmair is studying Cardiovascular and pulmonary disease risk, health beliefs and knowledge among performing musicians and music students. She is hoping this demographic can help support the study by taking part in an online survey which has ethics...
Singers, Musicians and Hearing loss
Singers, instrumentalists, actors and performance professionals throughout the arts are understandably worried when they experience hearing problems, and often contact BAPAM with concerns about their ability to perform and work. If you read this article and take one...
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