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Reflecting on Actors’ Mental Health and Resilience
This guest blog is written by PhD candidate, lecturer and trained actor Julia Grieshofer. Her research at University College London focuses on actors' mental health and their resilience. Julia, after completing a BA in Performing Arts and Digital Communication in Rome...
Substance Use Amongst Working Musicians – A Research study
Participants are being sought to take part in a research study looking at the prevalence of substance use amongst working musicians. Anyone interested in taking part is being asked to fill in a questionnaire. The study forms part of PhD student Jeordie Shenton’s...
Eating Disorders in Musicians
By Dr Charlie Easmon Performers may be perfectionists and perfectionists are more prone to mental health problems and included in this are eating disorders. In at least 50% of people with eating disorders there is an existing mental health disorder of depression or...
RSM and BAPAM Healthy Practice Webinar Series 2021
This exciting 12-part webinar series has been carefully curated to focus on specific areas that can affect musicians’ health during their careers. Each session brings together specialist practitioners who are experts in their field of performing arts medicine. It is...
Sound Advice: Rhian Jones and Lucy Heyman talk Healthy Music Careers
Written by journalist and author Rhian Jones and vocal and performance coach & musicians’ health specialist Lucy Heyman, Sound Advice is a health-focused career guide for musicians working in the popular music industry. It features research-informed advice and...
Musicians’ health and wellness literature considered through the lens of the Behaviour Change Wheel
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...
Free Online Alexander Technique Constructive Rest Sessions
To help artists and creative practitioners during the COVID-19 outbreak, BAPAM-Registered Alexander Technique teacher Cathie Kidger offers two free online Constructive Rest sessions a week. Cathie told us, people have been hugely appreciative and said it helped to...
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 health and wellbeing of performing...
Season’s Greetings From BAPAM
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...
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 year we have seen a big increase in...
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...
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