{"id":2859,"date":"2025-05-30T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:11:35","slug":"swiss-doctors-prescribing-art-therapy-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/swiss-doctors-prescribing-art-therapy-for-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Doctors Prescribing Art Therapy for Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, the World Health Organization discovered that the arts can boost mental health, reduce the impact of trauma, and lower the risk of cognitive decline, frailty and \u201cpremature mortality,\u201d among other upsides.\u00a0 So, the Swiss town of Neuchatel is letting doctors prescribe free museum visits for their patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors prescribe free museum visits as art therapy for patients<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counton2.com\/health\/ap-health\/ap-stressed-sick-swiss-town-lets-doctors-prescribe-free-museum-visits-as-art-therapy-for-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.counton2.com\/health\/ap-health\/ap-stressed-sick-swiss-town-lets-doctors-prescribe-free-museum-visits-as-art-therapy-for-patients\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798369431528\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, the World Health Organization discovered that the arts can boost mental health, reduce the impact of trauma, and lower the risk of cognitive decline, frailty and \u201cpremature mortality,\u201d among other upsides.\u00a0 So, the Swiss town of Neuchatel is letting doctors prescribe free museum visits for their patients. Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/swiss-doctors-prescribing-art-therapy-for-mental-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Swiss Doctors Prescribing Art Therapy for Mental Health&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-global","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}