Spiral Creative Arts Therapies Symposium in Glasgow Mental Health Arts Week 2025
Posted On: Thursday 30th October 2025
Summary
This October Scotland-based dramatherapist Genevieve Smyth was invited to join a Symposium Panel exploring the gap between statutory and non-statutory mental health services for children and young people in Scotland, and how needs can best be met.
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Art, drama and music therapists and child psychotherapists shared their experiences of identifying and meeting needs across health, education and the third sector, along with colleagues working freelance. The valuable roles of art, drama and music therapy were cited as crucial for some of those on long waiting lists for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and an example of expansion of psychological therapy treatment choice beyond talking therapies.
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Spiral_CATS_Symposium.pdf