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Showing posts with label Creative. Show all posts
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Civic duty is creative art charity support and a smile

Beverly Hills, California (press BOX) 10 July 2013

Civic duty and co-founder Julian Omidi and Dr. Michael Omidi announce their support for the love smile through the arts, an organization brings interactive art appreciation programs for young children and adults with chronic, potentially terminal diseases as well as their families dedicated to. The charity strategy is twofold: give those with serious medical conditions a voice through their creativity and art, and second, to promote the environmental design of hospitals and medical facilities to relieve stress and healing resilience.

"Creative arts programs and inspiring environment are vital, intellectual, emotional and spiritual development," says co-founder Dr. Michael Omidi civic duty. "Smiles through art gives people, severe illnesses suffer opportunity for self exploration and healing, which is like sunshine in their dark circumstances." Civic duty is proud to help this organization and be a part of their mission."

Smile was founded by art (http://www.smilesthroughart.blogspot.com) by Sharon Persovski, graphic and environmental designer with a passion for art, design, and development. Persovski, has decided to throngs of experience in the design of major international projects - from shopping malls in Japan, Singapore, and Mexico luxury spas and hotels in Las Vegas, and China has to her work many years as an accomplished environmental designer - help in great distress. The organization helps people with degenerative diseases to explore different ways of emotional healing. Adults and children may in particular their creative instincts to use to navigate their fears and anxieties about their illnesses in a way that broadens their horizons.

Persovski is an advocate of the use of environmental design as a process of positive effects on the health of people. She believes that the physical environment has significant impact on the reduction of stress for patients and caregivers, increase the quality of care and above all improve the treatment results. Smile works health care administrators and emergency type closely with doctors, aid workers, becoming art projects in hospitals and health care institutions around the world, not only in the United States, but in other countries including Mexico and Afghanistan.

Civic duty (http://www.civicduty.org) devoted to sense search of mankind and promotes the values of its founders, philanthropist Julian Omidi and his brother Dr. Michael Omidi. The charity is to inspire creative, social hours community service and volunteering through the stories of everyday people who make an extraordinary difference in the world. Mahatma Gandhi once said: "The man becomes very accurate in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men." To engage and to contribute, make a difference, send us a message via the website contact function. For more information about the civic duty, on Facebook, Pinterest, Google + and Twitter.



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Monday, May 27, 2013

Study Examines Use Of Creative Arts Therapies Among Patients With Cancer

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology
Also Included In: Depression;??Anxiety / Stress
Article Date: 13 May 2013 - 13:00 PDT Current ratings for:
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JAMA Internal Medicine Study Highlights

Creative arts therapies (CATs) can improve anxiety, depression, pain symptoms and quality of life among cancer patients, although the effect was reduced during follow-up in a study by Timothy W. Puetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues.

Authors reviewed the available medical literature and included 27 studies involving 1,576 patients. Researchers found that during treatment, CAT significantly reduced anxiety, depression and pain, and increased quality of life. However, the effects were greatly diminished during follow-up, the study concludes.

"Future well-designed RCTs are needed to address the methodological heterogeneity found within this field of research," according to the study.

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