Veteran Journeys: Creating an Opera Based on Research, Clinical, and Personal Experiences.

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Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Center for Health Services and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, and Healing and Education through the Arts (HEArts), Los Angeles.

Published: February 2022


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This Open Forum describes the process of integrating personal experience; clinical experience in providing care; and research background, methods, and data in creating an arts project (i.e., an opera) highlighting veterans' resilience and recovery in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder and homelessness. Specifically, an approach of using research interviews to identify storylines and characters for veterans, along with personal and clinical experiences to frame provider characters and stories, is described to illustrate an arts-in-medicine approach to portraying recovery among veterans.

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