Culture Vitamins for Young Adults
mental health, community and identity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/pl.v46i1.157772Keywords:
Arts on Prescription, mental well-being, identity, participatory artsAbstract
This article examines the impact of the Culture Vitamins for Young Adults (aged 18-30 with mental health issues) programme on the participants’ mental health, attachment to education and work, opportunities for being part of new communities and identity. The participants’ experiences were collected through group interviews and analysed using a narrative analysis strategy. The analysis finds that participation in Culture Vitamins for Young Adults improves mental health and brings the participants closer to education or work. The programme allows the participants to be part of a community with like-minded, routines in everyday life, successful experiences, new or rediscovered hobbies, social skills, increased self-confidence, greater insight into their own challenges and strengths, and an experience of being met as a human being. This helps to support the construction of a more positive identity, which is defined to a lesser extent based on deficit positions (e.g. illness) and, to a greater extent, defined by what the participants thrive on, which increases the participants’ agency on the way to, for example, education and reduces the risk of marginalisation. The article contributes to understanding how young adults with mental challenges, who are outside mainstream communities, can participate in society through meaningful relationships and positive, creative communities.
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