A Response to Nigel Hartley's Article “the Arts in Heath and Social Care — Is Music Therapy Fit for Purpose?”

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Wetherick
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Social Care ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Fit For Purpose

The Arts in Health and Social Care — Is Music Therapy Fit for Purpose?

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Arts Teachers ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
Arts In Health

This article considers the place of the arts therapies within contemporary health and social care provision, from the perspective of a music therapist employed as a senior manager in an end-of-life healthcare institution. Using St. Christopher's Hospice, London, as a case study, the work of a large group of artists, made up of arts therapists, community artists and arts teachers, is profiled, with a particular focus on how they work together, how their work conflicts and overlaps, and the challenges and complexities that service users, members of a multi-professional team, managers and funders all face in understanding what each of the artists has to offer. The question “Is music therapy fit for purpose?” is directed at both the training institutions who educate arts therapies students and the professional bodies who support them and define their work. Their responsibility to understand and articulate the changing environment within which their students and members are expected to practise is placed central to the argument. It is suggested that if music therapy and other arts therapies are to be considered fit for purpose and thus survive the challenges currently facing the health and social care sectors, they may need to reconsider the content of what they teach and revisit their definitions of what arts therapists do.

Aesthetic Music Therapy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Andrew Lee
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Work ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Musical Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicine Community ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

This chapter provides an overview of a music-centered model of music therapy entitled Aesthetic Music Therapy (AeMT). AeMT was developed over many years of practice and theoretical reflection not only as a music-centered approach to therapeutic work, but also as a way to consider the myriad means by which humans experience the world of self and others. By placing AeMT within the framework of other present-day music therapy models, the need for music-centered thinking to be considered equal to those of medicine, community, and psychotherapy is endorsed. By expanding our knowledge and use of diverse musical cultures, music therapy will remain at the forefront of contemporary theories in both the field of health and the arts.

Towards the social prescription of the arts: 
The arts in health and 
social care in Malta

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Valerie Visanich ◽  
Toni Attard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Arts In Health

Recently, the notion of arts as therapy has been of growing interest to sociologists. The aim of this article is to evaluate community-based arts funded projects in terms of their priorities and effectiveness and discuss possibilities for enabling Arts on Prescription schemes in Malta. Thematically, this article explores discourse on the potential of the arts on promoting well-being. Methodologically, this article draws on primary data collected from focus groups, interviews and an online survey with project leaders and artists of funded arts projects targeting mental health, disability or old age. Specifically, this research evaluates all national funded community-based arts projects in Malta between 2014 to 2018 under a national scheme of the President’s Award for Creativity fund, managed by the national Arts Council Malta. Analysis of this data was used to inform the new national cultural policy on the implantation of the Arts on Prescription scheme in Malta.

scholarly journals Preferences for group arts therapies: a cross-sectional survey of mental health patients and the general population

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. e051173
Author(s):  
Emma Millard ◽  
Emma Medlicott ◽  
Jessica Cardona ◽  
Stefan Priebe ◽  
Catherine Carr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
General Population ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Mental Health Patients

ObjectivesThe arts therapies include music therapy, dance movement therapy, art therapy and dramatherapy. Preferences for art forms may play an important role in engagement with treatment. This survey was an initial exploration of who is interested in group arts therapies, what they would choose and why.DesignAn online cross-sectional survey of demographics, interest in and preferences for the arts therapies was designed in collaboration with patients. The survey took 10 min to complete, including informed consent and 14 main questions. Summary statistics, multinomial logistic regression and thematic analysis were used to analyse the data.SettingThirteen National Health Service mental health trusts in the UK asked mental health patients and members of the general population to participate.ParticipantsA total of 1541 participants completed the survey; 685 mental health patients and 856 members of the general population. All participants were over 18 years old, had capacity to give informed consent and sufficient understanding of English. Mental health patients had to be using secondary mental health services.ResultsApproximately 60% of participants would be interested in taking part in group arts therapies. Music therapy was the most frequent choice among mental health patients (41%) and art therapy was the most frequent choice in the general population (43%). Past experience of arts therapies was the most important predictor of preference for that same modality. Expectations of enjoyment, helpfulness, feeling capable, impact on mood and social interaction were most often reported as reasons for preferring one form of arts therapy.ConclusionsLarge proportions of the participants expressed an interest in group arts therapies. This may justify the wide provision of arts therapies and the offer of more than one modality to interested patients. It also highlights key considerations for assessment of preferences in the arts therapies as part of shared decision-making.

scholarly journals Report of the 5th International Symposium for Qualitative Music Therapy Research International Music Therapy Institute Universität der Künste, Berlin

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
The Arts

The 5th International Symposium for Qualitative Music Therapy Research of the International Music Therapy Institute of the UdK was held from April 21-26, this year. A group of 23 music therapists from ten different countries met at Gutshof Sauen, in the Brandenberg region. Gutshof Sauen is owned by the UdK and other Berlin colleges of the arts and has been specifically established for use by such meetings.

scholarly journals The Significance of Qualitative Research – Arts-based Research in Special Needs Education and Music Therapy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Knapik-Szweda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Special Needs Education

One of the functions of art is understanding an individual and his or her potential. Art provides an individual with proper conditions and gives new opportunities to function regardless of one’s age and disability. The purpose of this article is to get the reader acquainted with the significance of qualitative research especially in the context of arts-based research in special needs education and music therapy. In theoretical part, the authoress will attempt to answer the question of what benefits this research method brings and why it is useful. What is to be described at the beginning quite extensively is the situation of research in special education and music therapy as a scientific discipline. This presentation will smoothly lead the reader to the essence of article, i.e. the arts-based research method. The definitions of arts-based research will be presented together with differences resulting from defining the notions connected with art. Examples will also be provided of research based on art resulting from the combination of two disciplines such as special needs education and music therapy. Moreover, the authoress will demonstrate her own research based on art with the application of music which emphasizes the significance of changes that occur within the music therapy process. Finally, the arguments which emphasize the significance of artsbased research will be mentioned.

scholarly journals Sorry It Has Taken So Long: Continuing Feminist Dialogues in Music Therapy

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Creative Arts Therapies ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The Arts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Forthcoming Special Issue ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Orientation Ability

The impact of feminism – along with its understanding of the complex interactions in our lives of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, ability, and age – arrived late in music therapy. This paper reviews what feminist impact exists, explores possible challenges faced, and identifies the most recent endeavors in the area including the first International Conference on Gender, Health, and the Creative Arts Therapies and a gathering of feminist music therapy researchers, both hosted in Montreal, Canada in 2012. These issues will be explored further in the forthcoming special issue of the Arts in Psychotherapy dedicated to Gender, Health, and the Creative Arts Therapies edited by Dr. Sandra Curtis, with contributions from many significant experts in the field.  Members of the music therapy community are encouraged to examine the meaning of feminism and gender in their own context and to join in the important dialogue on gender in music therapy which holds great potential to enrich our theory, practice, and research.

Community Music Therapy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Ansdell ◽  
Brynjulf Stige
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Traditional Theory ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Short History ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Interdisciplinary Theory ◽  
Late Modern

This chapter provides an overview of the wide and complex territory of Community Music Therapy, orientating readers to the key events, arguments, and practices of this international movement. Characterizing CoMT as a “social movement” helps explain the particular pattern of its emergence and development, and the varying reactions to it. This also indicates how the movement critically refracts dimensions of the practice, discipline, and profession of international music therapy more generally in its late-modern phase—showing how it is adapting to the demands and opportunities of globalization, cultural plurality, economic crisis, and the restructuring and revisioning of health and social care services. In its short history CoMT has functioned variously as an inspiration for broader and more flexible practice, as a critique of traditional theory, as a platform for exploring fresh interdisciplinary theory, and as an instigator of inter-professional dialogue and dispute.

Playing With Chaos: Broadening Possibilities for How Music Therapist’s Consider Chaos in Group Work With Young People

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Oosthuizen ◽  
Katrina McFerran
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
South African ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
The Arts ◽  
African Context

Abstract Many music therapists have alluded to challenges in their work with groups of young people. However, chaos, incorporating experiences of disintegration and destruction, is a construct often overlooked in music therapy literature. Some music therapy authors have related experiences of chaos to the struggles faced by young people referred for therapy. These experiences require management, modification, or resolution. The authors of this article synthesized broader understandings and approaches towards chaos described in literature from fields including music therapy group work, drama therapy, the arts, psychoanalysis, organizational studies, and philosophy. Chaos is positioned as an inherent and necessary aspect of music therapy groups with young people, situated within a mutually potentiating relationship with more ordered features of a group process. From this paradoxical perspective, therapeutic transformation is enabled through creativity that holds the tension between order and the destructiveness of chaos. When chaos is welcomed in music therapy groups and framed within appropriate boundaries, the authors argue that experiences of chaos can be harnessed to support engagement with the paradoxes of creativity and destructiveness. The provision of a space to play with chaos supports young people who are required to flourish within adverse, chaotic life circumstances. The significance of this position for a group of young people who have committed offences in the South African context is highlighted.

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