scholarly journals The Role of Improvised Music in Psychodynamic Music Therapy with Adults

Music Therapy ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Improvised Music

Music Therapy with Adolescents in Medical Settings

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mondanaro ◽  
Joanne Loewy
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Music Psychotherapy ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
New Diagnosis

Adolescence is a time of change marking the transition from childhood to adulthood. When a teenager is ill and requiring hospitalization many of the constructs upon which individual identity rests such as contact with peers, and social belonging, can become compromised. Music therapy offers a way to address the personal and psychological stress that can result from hospitalization. In this chapter the authors highlight conditions in medicine that are common to teens. Music psychotherapy approaches are described that promote expression in individual and group modalities, and can also provide avenues for self-reflection related to the disease process, such as the receiving of a new diagnosis, or in cases where traumatic injury has occurred. The role of the music therapist in working with the medical team, the patient, and the patient’s family is presented with reference to the detailed knowledge and experience of the authors in providing music psychotherapy to adolescents.

Role Limits in Music Therapy

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Spontaneous Activity ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Interactions

Often through the course of work with a patient, issues arise which challenge one's role as a music therapist, and which lead one to question the limits of the experiences being offered to the patient. In this paper I describe my work with a woman who initially avoided and resisted shared music-making, and who gradually became more able to be involved in spontaneous activity. I tried to find ways of understanding the issues at the root of our relationship, in order to build on the musical interactions. From this case, I intend to illustrate the deeper questions which, I believe, are pertinent to be asked more generally about the limitations attending the role of the music therapist.

scholarly journals The Limits of Resilience and the Need for Resistance: Articulating the Role of Music Therapy With Young People Within a Shifting Trauma Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elly Scrine
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
A Site

A broad sociocultural perspective defines trauma as the result of an event, a series of events, or a set of circumstances that is experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting impacts on an individual’s physical, social, emotional, or spiritual wellbeing. Contexts and practices that aim to be “trauma-informed” strive to attend to the complex impacts of trauma, integrating knowledge into policies and practices, and providing a sanctuary from harm. However, there is a body of critical and decolonial scholarship that challenges the ways in which “trauma-informed” practice prioritizes individualized interventions, reinscribes colonial power relations through its conceptualizations of safety, and obscures the role of systemic injustices. Within music therapy trauma scholarship, research has thus far pointed to the affordances of music in ameliorating symptoms of trauma, bypassing unavailable cognitive processes, and working from a strengths-based orientation. In critiquing the tendency of the dominant trauma paradigm to assign vulnerability and reinforce the individual’s responsibility to develop resilience through adversity, this conceptual analysis outlines potential alternatives within music therapy. Drawing on a case example from a research project with young people in school, I elucidate the ways in which music therapy can respond to power relations as they occur within and beyond “trauma-informed” spaces. I highlight two overarching potentials for music therapy within a shifting trauma paradigm: (1) as a site in which to reframe perceived risk by fostering young people’s resistance and building their political agency and (2) in challenging the assumption of “safe spaces” and instead moving toward practices of “structuring safety.”

Music Therapy for Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Cancer

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippa Reid
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Subsequent Treatment ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Music Therapist

Receiving a cancer diagnosis and undergoing the subsequent treatment challenges coping and equilibrium for children and adolescents and their families. This chapter describes how music therapists work with children, adolescents, and family members in cancer care contexts. A range of musical experiences can provide adjunct support to medical treatments to support coping, reduce distress, and provide comfort. The music therapist works as a member of the interdisciplinary team to provide opportunities fornormaland fun musical experiences to support the experience of hospitalization, as well as offering comfort and support for children in pain or distress. Research evidence supports the role of the music therapist in providing effective services with children and adolescents in cancer care.

The Role of Music in Counseling Services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathania Pramendra Yaslim
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Counseling Practice ◽  
Definition Of

Music has become a part of human life. Even in daily life of few individuals will be lacking if they are not accompanied by music at all. The bond between humans and music was finally used as an innovation to help individuals who need help. Music therapy was created to help someone through their problems using media that is familiar to humans, namely music. This literature review aims to understand as well as explore the basic role of music in counseling services. This literature review will focus on the definition of music therapy, music therapy in counseling practice, principles of music therapy, music therapy techniques, and the types of music used.

Nursing in Integrative Medicine and Nurses’ Engagement in Caring-Healing

2012 ◽  
pp. 235-239
Author(s):  
Chiyoko Inomata ◽  
Shin’ichi Nitta
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Integrative Medicine ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Healing Environment ◽  
Therapy Sessions

In 2008, the authors’ team started an ongoing project to administer music therapy sessions for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Studies were made conducted from the “caring” perspective to evaluate the effects of music therapy on the mental health of the patients (Inomata, 2008a, Inomata 2008b) and on the role of nurses in integrative medicine (Inomata, 2008c). On the basis of the findings from these studies, music therapy programs were designed and conducted to meet the different needs of various neurodegenerative diseases. This project was the first ever reported music therapy initiative undertaken as a multi-disciplinary collaborative work and in partnership with a patients’ group (Saji, 2010). The findings from four years of running the project are summarized as follows: (1) Music therapy helped maintain/improve the QOL(Quality of Life) level of neurodegenerative disease patients, which would otherwise deteriorate with the progress of symptoms; (2) There was an improvement in the patients’ psychological and spiritual health as exemplified by the expansion of consciousness and rebuilding of relationships; (3) The project increased the feeling of partnership among the multi-disciplinary team members; (4) Care providers shared values such as self-belief and respect for both the self and others; (5) Caring for patients’ emotional side by being compassionate and staying with them and/or listening to them resulted in a stronger care provider-patient bond; (6) Nurses were engaged in the building a healing environment as “healers,” and the patients found more hope in everyday life.

Globalizing adolescence: Digital music cultures and music therapy

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Michael Viega
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Person Experience

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, digital technology has connected adolescents to a global youth culture that subverts and bypasses traditional means of consuming music. In health-related contexts, adolescents can use digital tools to sample, edit, layer, manipulate, and record their own soundscapes, which allows them to have agency over their own narratives and share them with others. Concurrently, therapists acquire empathy for the lived experience of an adolescent by understanding the use of, and attuning to, the digital production components of songs used and created in therapy. Using the author’s first-person experience with digital technology and adolescents in music therapy, this chapter investigates the evolving role of digital music and media for both adolescents and therapists, exploring the ways it can (re)connect youth to a global community and have their voices heard.

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