The arts are like a secret language for children 

“The arts are like a secret language for children,” Abigail Unger tells us. Unger directs the expressive therapies team at Hospice and Palliative Care Buffalo, one of the firs to fids kind in the country. Hospice Buffalo offers end-of-life and palliative care, serving roughly 5,000 in individuals are year, including children with terminal diagnoses. “For children who don’t yet have the language or the developmental capacity to recognize and articulate what’s going on in their bodies, the arts offer an invaluable outlet. They are a language for everyone, of course, but the arts give children a means of expression when they don’t have words.”

Thus why social prescribing is becoming a global phenomenon and it’s happening in the UK, Canada and in the United States. Physicians, psychologists, social workers and others are prescribing singing classes for stress, museum visits and concert tickets for anxiety and nature walks for burnout, offering prevention and intervention.  Social prescribing engages the arts as an immersive form of precision medicine, aligning cultural activities with individual needs.
From the book Your Brain on Arts