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https://theconversation.com/knitting-your-way-to-a-healthier-happier-mind-46389

2. How craft is good for our health, The Conversation, July 27, 2018 https://theconversation.com/how-craft-is-good-for-our-health-98755 3. How craft is good for our health, The Conversation, July 27, 2018 https://theconversation.com/how-craft-is-good-for-our-health-98755

4. Examining the Role of Craft in Post-Earthquake Recovery: Implications for Social Work Practice, British Journal of Social Work Dec 2015

5. Knitting your way to a healthier, happier mind, The Conversation, September 11, 2015

https://theconversation.com/knitting-your-way-to-a-healthier-happier-mind-46389

6. How craft is good for our health, The Conversation, July 27, 2018 https://theconversation.com/how-craft-is-good-for-our-health-98755 7. How craft is good for our health, The Conversation, July 27, 2018 https://theconversation.com/how-craft-is-good-for-our-health-98755 8. Managing anxiety in eating disorders with knitting

Clave-Brule M¹, Mazloum A, Park RJ, Harbottle EJ, Birmingham CL.

PubMed US National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health 2009, March 14 (1) e1-5 9. Knitting your way to a healthier, happier mind, The Conversation, September 11, 2015 https://theconversation.com/knitting-your-way-to-a-healthier-happier-mind-46389 10. Knitting your way to a healthier, happier mind, The Conversation, September 11, 2015 https://theconversation.com/knitting-your-way-to-a-healthier-happier-mind-46389 11. Men’s Sheds and the Experience of Depression in Older Australian Men Culph J S et al Australian Occupational Therapy Journal 2015 PMID26061865 12. Community Based Men’s Sheds: promoting male health, wellbeing and social inclusion in an international context. Coldier R et al Health Promotional International 2014 13. Aesop announces ‘dramatic’ results of a brand new survey of health professionals’ attitudes to the arts role in social prescribing, Media Release 23 July 2018

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14. Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing, The Short Report July 2017. All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing Inquiry, Page 1

15. Why Your Doctor May Be Prescribing Art Classes in the Future Casey Lesser

Sep 19, 2018

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-doctor-prescribing-art-classes-future 16. British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons, Meilan Solly November 8, 2018
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-doctors-may-soon-prescribe-art-music-dance-singing-lessons-180970750/#gfXRi8KdFT2sWFQH.99

17 Matt Hancock , MP fro West Suffolk

https://www.matt-hancock.com/news/social-prescribing-speech, 6 November 2018

18. British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons, Meilan Solly November 8, 2018

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19. Aesop announces ‘dramatic’ results of a brand new survey of health professionals’ attitudes to the arts role in social prescribing, Media Release 23 July 2018

http://www.ae-sop.org/2018/07/23/aesop-announces-dramatic-results-of-a-brand-new-survey-of-health-professionals-attitudes-to-the-arts-role-in-social-prescribing/

20. Aesop announces ‘dramatic’ results of a brand new survey of health professionals’ attitudes to the arts role in social prescribing, Media Release 23 July 2018

http://www.ae-sop.org/2018/07/23/aesop-announces-dramatic-results-of-a-brand-new-survey-of-health-professionals-attitudes-to-the-arts-role-in-social-prescribing/

21. The Health Benefits of Knitting Produced by Knit for Peace, page 3

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22. Knitting should be prescribed on NHS to lower blood pressure, reduce depression and slow dementia, Sarah Knapton, 11 March 2018 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/03/11/knitting-should-prescribed-nhs-lower-blood-pressure-reduce-depression/ 23. Knitting should be prescribed on NHS to lower blood pressure, reduce depression and slow dementia, Sarah Knapton, 11 March 2018 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/03/11/knitting-should-prescribed-nhs-lower-blood-pressure-reduce-depression/ 24 Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participant’s’ Responses Following Art Making, Girija Kaimal, Kendra Ray and Juan Muniz, 23 May 2016 https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2016.1166832 25. The Connection Between Art, Healing and Public Health: A review of current literature , Heather L Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel, page 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/ 26. The Connection Between Art, Healing and Public Health: A review of current literature, Heather L Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel, page 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/ 27. The Connection Between Art, Healing and Public Health: A review of current literature , Heather L Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel, page 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/ 28. What are the health benefits of being creative? Maria Cohut, 16 February 2018 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320947.php

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34. Dance to Health (a falls prevention dance programme for older people), 2016-17

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35. Dance your way to health and happiness, Claire Dunn, January 24, 2014

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36. Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter, Longer, Richard Powers , Standford Dance

https://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm

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