PhD candidate, lecturer and trained actor, Julia Grieshofer, researches actors’ mental health at UCL. From June 2021/22, she joins the UCL MSc in Performing Arts Medicine team to lead the Psychology module on this programme. Recently, she was invited as a speaker on...
Researcher, lecturer and musician, Dr Naomi Norton’s paper ‘Considering musicians’ health and wellness literature through the lens of the Behaviour Change Wheel’ was published in the Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing in Autumn 2020. Naomi completed a PhD...
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...
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...
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...
In this guest blog, BAPAM counsellor and therapist, Fiona Macbeth, offers practical advice for arts workers experiencing anxiety about work during the Covid 19 pandemic. There’s a lot that people who work and create in the performing arts could be doing, and should...
Home » Main News Cathie Kidger, who is a BAPAM Registered Alexander Technique teacher, is offering free 30 minute Alexander Technique Zoom sessions to help artists and creative practitioners during the current pandemic. Cathie first had Alexander Technique lessons...
During the current social distancing period, we are pleased to be working with Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Dr Sidrah Muntaha, and GP, Dr Tamara Cohen, to offer free online group therapy for mild to moderate anxiety. This 6 session programme is for performance...
We are delighted to be working with Sage Gateshead who will host our new free Performing Arts Medicine clinic from Thursday 9 April as part of their programme supporting creative artists. Our GP, Dr Melanie Grundy, who also has a background in music and theatre arts,...
Consultation Paper BAPAM is pleased to have brought together a working group of clinicians and performing arts organisations interested in addressing challenges to the mental health and wellbeing of those who work in the sector. The group has produced guidance to...
Home » Health Promotion British Association for PERFORMING Arts Medicine Healthy Touring Checklist and Rider Introduction This guidance provides practical advice for artists and performers on keeping healthy while touring or working away from home. It is a...
Health in the performing arts industry – whose responsibility? Every year BAPAM helps with hundreds of inquiries about health problems related to working in the performing arts. These include musculoskeletal problems caused by strain and intensive use of parts of the...
BAPAM has convened a Psychosocial Working Group to bring together clinicians including doctors, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, charities working with performing arts professionals to support mental health, and academics conducting key...
BAPAM is pleased to support the Peer Supervision Group for psychosocial practitioners who work with performing arts clients. This group, whose inaugural meetings took place in 2018, opens up the conversation between performing arts and psychological practice. It is...
Simone Willis, a Performance Science researcher at Cardiff Metropolitan University, has shared with us this recently published paper on the relationship between occupational stress and well-being in performing artists. The aim of this systematic review was to...
We are are looking for skilled and experienced individuals to join our Board of Trustees and help guide the organisation in assuring service quality, developing new and existing partnerships and expanding our services throughout the performing arts industry. To apply,...
Our January 2019 Performing Arts Medicine Newsletter is archived here. Contents: New clinics Healthy practice training for performing arts professionals and students BAPAM and the Royal Society of Medicine Event: Occupational Health in the Performing Arts Industry:...
What would an ideal performance environment look like? Is such a thing even possible when we work in such widely different spaces? How do our environments affect our health, our creativity, our social relationships? What can healthcare professionals, technicians,...
