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The juvenile indisposition can be considered as a phenomena that has increased in 21st century. Indisposition, that more and more often tends to affect a certain part of youth, can lead to severe problems and feelings of exclusion. Risk factors and processes behind juvenile indisposition can be considered multilayered and related to social, family and individual issues. Diversity behind many causes of phenomena makes it more difficult to design procedures and interventions that could help preventing juvenile indisposition. Though the beneficial well-being effects of the arts have been widely researched in the past years, do the mechanisms behind these well-being effects still remain less understood. This literature review aims to understand the beneficial effects of the arts in the framework of Ryan and Deci´s self-determination theory. Self-determination theory emphazises the meaning of fulfillment of three psychological needs - competence, autonomy and relatedness- in reaching and achieving the optimal state of well-being. This systematic literature review was based on six international, scientific articles about beneficial effects of participatory arts for at-risk youth. Articles were analyzed using the theoretical framework of self-determination theory and fulfillment of three basic needs as a prediction of increased well-being. Results of this literature review refers to the potential of participatory arts in increasing the well-being of at-risk youth through fulfillment of three basic psychological needs. Considering the effects found in this review, participating in the arts predicts the feelings of competence, autonomy and relatedness in at-risk youth and gives insight to considering the well-being effects of the arts as a result of fulfillment of three basic psychological needs.