@article{Martin_Colp_2022, title={Art Making Promotes Mental Health: A Solution for Schools That Time Forgot}, volume={45}, url={https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/5017}, DOI={10.53967/cje-rce.v45i1.5017}, abstractNote={<p>This article presents art as a tool for promoting mental health in schools by examining the effects of art making in a sample of 104 school-based mental health professionals. It unites findings from unrelated disciplines to derive and test a new conceptual framework proposing that active engagement in a visual-tactile process over time mediates a shift to healthy mental states and that regular engagement in such process builds mental health capacity. Four hypotheses are tested through psychometrics with statistically significant findings for all (p < .05). Through this study, we advance Flow Theory in identifying a new causal mechanism for accessing Flow; and we make a novel, interdisciplinary contribution to the field of mental health in providing psychometric evidence that making visual art promotes mental health.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’éducation}, author={Martin, Brittany Harker and Colp, S. Mitchell}, year={2022}, month={Mar.}, pages={156–183} }