Developmental Music Therapy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Edwards ◽  
Jason Noone
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Developmental Theories ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Training Courses

Developmental music therapy (DMT) is a model that underpins music therapy practice with multiple client groups. The resonances of DMT can be found whenever music therapists use any or all of their understanding of developmental stages, family context, and social and cultural frameworks to consider needs and interactions within individual or group music therapy. Music therapy training courses teach developmental theories, and therefore most practising music therapists use these theoretical perspectives in their interactions with clients. Thus chapter will show how developmental music therapy refers to three major theoretical orientations: (1) Theories of stress, coping, and adaption; (2) Human life span development, including stage models of development, and musical milestones of development; and (3) Ecological perspectives such as Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of development (Bronfenbrenner 1979). Boxill consistently termed her approach developmental music therapy (Boxill 1989). Therefore, this chapter provides an overview of Boxill’s writings and theoretical positioning within DMT.

scholarly journals How does a music therapy student work to facilitate reminiscence and memory in dementia patients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
I-Chen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Dementia Patients ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Social Abilities ◽  
Therapy Strategies

<p>This study was prompted in response to increased interest in, and demand for, music therapy provision in improving quality of care for dementia patients. It is an exploration of the strategies to facilitate memory and reminiscence in persons with dementia, and considers the need for those preparing for end of life to recall identities, connect with family and others, and express feelings. This research is a qualitative study involving secondary analysis of clinical data from my clinical practice and identifies the strategies, techniques and procedures that I applied in my clinical work to stimulate preserved memory ‘islands’. The findings show that familiarity is central in enabling a remembering process, and music can have unique ways of accessing memory in people with limited cognitive and social abilities. Eight core categories of music therapy strategies were found to be helpful in enabling memory and reminiscence. This study includes examples of both individual and group music therapy. The objective of this study was to examine my music therapy practice, and potentially provide some beneficial ideas and insights to other music therapists working on memory and reminiscence with dementia patients.</p>

scholarly journals How does a music therapy student work to facilitate reminiscence and memory in dementia patients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
I-Chen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Dementia Patients ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Social Abilities ◽  
Therapy Strategies

<p>This study was prompted in response to increased interest in, and demand for, music therapy provision in improving quality of care for dementia patients. It is an exploration of the strategies to facilitate memory and reminiscence in persons with dementia, and considers the need for those preparing for end of life to recall identities, connect with family and others, and express feelings. This research is a qualitative study involving secondary analysis of clinical data from my clinical practice and identifies the strategies, techniques and procedures that I applied in my clinical work to stimulate preserved memory ‘islands’. The findings show that familiarity is central in enabling a remembering process, and music can have unique ways of accessing memory in people with limited cognitive and social abilities. Eight core categories of music therapy strategies were found to be helpful in enabling memory and reminiscence. This study includes examples of both individual and group music therapy. The objective of this study was to examine my music therapy practice, and potentially provide some beneficial ideas and insights to other music therapists working on memory and reminiscence with dementia patients.</p>

scholarly journals Converging Reflections on Music Therapy With Children and Adolescents: A Collaborative Seminar on Diverse Areas of Music Therapy Practice and Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Antonia Mössler ◽  
Simon Gilbertson ◽  
Viggo Krüger ◽  
Wolfgang Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Therapy Training ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Training Courses

Four music therapists working at the Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (GAMUT) in Bergen, Norway, collaborated in providing a seminar at a national conference called “Barn og deres andre” [Children and their others] in November 2012. The four therapists were educated in different music therapy training courses in four different countries, and have worked and carried out research in distinctly different areas of music therapy practice: pediatric traumatic brain injury, children with autism, and children and adolescents in child welfare. Significantly, their experience of creating a collaborative seminar led to an awareness of each other’s work and also a process of identifying shared perspectives about music therapy with children and adolescents. This report on the symposium presents the three seminar papers and documents the journey of a team-building process within the music therapy discipline.

Musical Elaborations

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Ansdell
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
New Thinking

In this article I review some of the latest books in what has been called the ‘New Musicology’. I also ask why music therapists and musicologists seem until now to have taken so little notice of each other's work, but suggest that this situation is changing. Developments in critical thinking about music represented by the ‘New Musicology’ may be of particular relevance to music therapists searching for theoretical perspectives on their work. But equally the theorists of the ‘New Musicology’ could learn much from music therapy – which can be seen in many ways as a ‘laboratory’ for new thinking about the nature of music and its place in society.

Music Therapy Research

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Practice Experience ◽  
Therapy Training ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The University

Music therapy is an evidence-based profession. Music therapy research aims to provide information about outcomes that support music therapy practice including contributing to theoretical perspectives that can explain why changes occur during treatment. Music therapy research has been conducted in a range of health, education, and community contexts throughout the world. Initially many music therapy developments in the university sector occurred through the establishment of training programmes that were developed and delivered by music therapists with professional experience in leading services in education and health care. Now many music therapy training programmes are led by people with practice experience along with research qualifications, and some universities offer music therapy doctoral pathways. Music therapy research capacity has expanded through a notable increase in PhD graduates as well as an increase in funded research in music therapy. This chapter covers: (1) traditions, (2) trends, and (3) contexts for music therapy research.

scholarly journals Theoretical Perspectives and Therapeutic Approaches in Music Therapy with Families

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Tuomi ◽  
Grace Thompson ◽  
Tali Gottfried ◽  
Esa Ala-Ruona
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Field

Music therapists have described the importance of working collaboratively with family members in various populations throughout the history of the profession. Despite the growing amount of literature, not enough is known regarding the scope of theoretical perspectives and therapeutic approaches that guide family centered music therapy. The aim of this international survey study was to better understand the professional perspectives and approaches of music therapists who work with families around the world. This article presents the results of the survey where a total of 125 responses were analysed. Participants’ responses indicated that music therapy with families is well established as an important field of practice that includes a large range of populations across the life span. Music therapists working with families emphasise that the work is holistic and flexible, both in terms of the theoretical approaches that inform their work and the methods/techniques that are included in sessions. The participants in this study advocated for more continuing professional development opportunities to further deepen and develop their practice. In addition, the survey data offers priorities and recommendations for future research.

Group Music Therapy Reconsidered

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Pavlicevic
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Community Centers ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Group Music Therapy

Group music therapy, while acknowledged professionally as a powerful therapeutic format, remains relatively undocumented and untheorized in the literature. This historical scarcity is puzzling, given that music therapists do group work in a range of formats as part of their service delivery in schools, care homes, health centers, hospitals, cafes, and community centers. In this chapter a range of approaches to group work in music therapy will be presented. Four key texts providing information about group work in music therapy are reviewed and discussed in order to show how group work offers opportunities for differences, opportunities for attachment, for different kinds of simultaneous roles, relationships, and transferences, and different combinations of self-and-others, with larger groups, and with offering opportunities for the person to become themselves by contributing to the group.

The Evolution of Music Therapy

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Mastnak
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Guided Imagery And Music ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
International Importance ◽  
Evolution Of Music ◽  
Based Medicine

Abstract. Five overlapping eras or stages can be distinguished in the evolution of music therapy. The first one refers to the historical roots and ethnological sources that have influenced modern meta-theoretical perspectives and practices. The next stage marks the heterogeneous origins of modern music therapy in the 20th century that mirror psychological positions and novel clinical ideas about the healing power of music. The subsequent heyday of music therapeutic models and schools of thought yielded an enormous variety of concepts and methods such as Nordoff–Robbins music therapy, Orff music therapy, analytic music therapy, regulatory music therapy, guided imagery and music, sound work, etc. As music therapy gained in international importance, clinical applications required research on its therapeutic efficacy. According to standards of evidence-based medicine and with regard to clearly defined diagnoses, research on music therapeutic practice was the core of the fourth stage of evolution. The current stage is characterized by the emerging epistemological dissatisfaction with the paradigmatic reductionism of evidence-based medicine and by the strong will to discover the true healing nature of music. This trend has given birth to a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary hermeneutics for novel foundations of music therapy. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, regulatory and chronobiological sciences, quantum physical philosophies, universal harmonies, spiritual and religious views, and the cultural anthropological phenomenon of esthetics and creativity have become guiding principles. This article should not be regarded as a historical treatise but rather as an attempt to identify theoretical landmarks in the evolution of modern music therapy and to elucidate the evolution of its spirit.

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