scholarly journals Sounding the Authentic Self:

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Andrew Lee
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Recording Session ◽  
Intersecting Identities

This piece is a queer autoethnographic cycle of words, poems, and improvisations that reflect my lived experience as a queer music therapist. The improvisations come from a two-day recording session held at the Maureen Forrester Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. By expressing my identity as a queer music therapist, I came to understand with greater clarity the therapeutic-creative process that was central to my work with clients. The music offered as part of my contribution to this queering music therapy special issue acknowledges the courage and peace needed to embrace my intersecting identities as a composer–music-therapist and a queer cisgender man.

scholarly journals The great reveal: The experiences of a Registered Music Therapist with a disability: an arts-based research project

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Kalenderidis
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Intersecting Identities ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Accessible Format

Disability is a human phenomenon experienced not by a small minority but a large percentage of our global population.  Disability is encountered by people of all ethnicities, religions, genders (and non-conforming), sexualities, socio-economic backgrounds, and ages.  Recent music therapy literature has advocated for a diverse workforce and others describe the value in music therapists adopting an intersectional lens, which considers the interconnectedness of social and political identities. However, there is limited dialogue featuring lived experiences of music therapists of underrepresented identities, such as disability.  This research sought to canvass the experiences of Australian Registered Music Therapists who identify as having a disability and to explore how their disability may impact or inform their practice.  One Australian Registered Music Therapist (RMT) who identified as disabled was interviewed.  The student-researcher engaged with arts-based research through music composition to allow an embodied analysis and to present results in an accessible format.  Several themes were revealed, including; hidden disability, disclosure of disability, alliance, positive transference, visibility, and identity.  These findings demonstrate the importance of lived experiences in the music therapy community and calls to amplify diverse voices of those with disabilities and other intersecting identities within our profession. Acknowledging the work of disabled music therapists may further challenge ableist attitudes in our society and provide options to participants who might prefer to work with therapists who have relevant lived experience.

scholarly journals Exit Music: The Experience of Music Therapy within Medical Assistance in Dying

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
SarahRose Black ◽  
Lee Bartel ◽  
Gary Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Medical Assistance In Dying ◽  
Canadian Music

Since the 2015 Canadian legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAiD), many Canadian music therapists have become involved in the care of those requesting this procedure. This qualitative study, the first of its kind, examines the experience of music therapy within MAiD, exploring lived experience from three perspectives: the patient, their primary caregiver, and the music therapist/researcher. Overall thematic findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of ten MAiD cases demonstrate therapeutically beneficial outcomes in terms of quality of life, symptom management, and life review. Further research is merited to continue an exploration of the role of music therapy in the context of assisted dying.

Considerations of Development Issues in Choosing Interventions for Resistance in Music Therapy

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice M. Dvorkin
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Object Experience

It is the focus of this paper to look at the idea of resistance as providing information on the primary object experience. Using this information, the music therapist needs to assess his or her role in playing music during the session, in the same way that he or she assesses verbal interventions.

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 Working With and Within Chaos

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Brenda Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Valuable Complement ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
First Time

The Support Programme for Abuse Reactive Children, was initiated by the Teddy Bear Clinic (an NPO established to protect abused children) in South Africa in response to the increase of child-on-child offenders in this country.  This short-term programme aims to offer holistic rehabilitation to first time young sex offenders and incorporates conventional diversion approaches alongside creative programmes, including group music therapy. Based on a review of my session notes, this paper considers challenges and positive developments I experienced over time as the programme’s music therapist from 2006 to 2016. Although I often experienced this work as chaotic, findings suggest that through co-creating a context-specific music therapy programme alongside group members, clinic staff and the broader community, music therapy has offered an increasingly relevant and valuable complement to the diversion programme. Continuing challenges within this work are also highlighted.

scholarly journals Working as a Music Therapist in Mexico

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Murow
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
The World ◽  
Percussion Instruments

Music therapy in Mexico is only beginning. Though there is a lot of interest in what it is and on its effect on health and personal growth, there are also a lot of misconceptions about what it really is. I have encountered that one of the obstacles for the growth of music therapy in Mexico is what I call the myths about what it is. I am sure some of them are well known to my colleagues around the world: if you play a music tape the client gets well, or just get some percussion instruments and have the children play and you are doing music therapy. I think one of the worst misconceptions here is that some people believe there is no need for professional training and education to practice music therapy. Being a music therapist has been a real struggle not to mention trying to educate health and education professionals about music therapy, and that it is a real profession in other Countries! On the other hand, there are many musicians and health professionals who are very interested in music therapy and its use.

scholarly journals Attachment theory and music therapy: What was the relevance of attachment theory to a student’s music therapy programme for ‘at-risk’ mothers and their babies?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Helen Ridley
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Student Placement ◽  
Positive Mother ◽  
Qualitative Secondary Analysis ◽  
Therapy Programme

<p>This qualitative secondary analysis research project sought to explore the relevance of attachment theory as it might apply to a music therapy programme set up and run within a residential service for ‘at risk’ mothers and their babies. The explicit purpose of the music therapy programme was to assist the mothers in bonding with their babies. The researcher was a student music therapist on placement at the facility, involved in weekly one-to-one sessions with a total of nineteen young women and their babies, over the time that each was resident at the facility. The music therapist also ran some weekly group sessions (mothers with babies) as part of the facility’s mandatory education programme. The music therapy programme took place over twenty-two weeks, with a two week break after the first ten weeks. The research analysis commenced on completion of the programme. Thematic analysis was used to look at two types of data; data from the placement (including clinical notes and personal reflective journal), and literature on attachment theory. There was an initial review of selected literature on attachment theory and music therapy. The researcher/student music therapist then carried out an inductive qualitative secondary analysis of the data that had been generated as a standard part of her practice over the period of the student placement. This was followed by a further examination of attachment theory literature to confirm key aspects of the theory. The findings from the inductive analysis were then looked at in the light of those identified key features of attachment theory. The research findings showed many strong links between key concepts of attachment theory, and the patterns that emerged from the placement data, manifesting on a number of different levels. However some patterns might be more usefully explained and/or elucidated by other theories. Findings suggested that attachment theory provided a useful framework and language for observing and understanding the interactive behaviours and external and personal structures that appeared to work for or against mother-infant bonding. In addition, the music therapy programme seemed a particularly suitable vehicle for promoting positive mother-infant bonding. However it was found that although the music therapy programme may have been helpful in a positive mother-infant bonding process, there was no evidence to suggest that this would necessarily extend to promoting a secure attachment relationship, given the personal, structural and legal factors associated with the high ‘at-risk’ context. An attachment-based music therapy programme may well have a more useful role to play in a lower risk context where mothers and babies remained for longer in the facility, and where the programme could continue throughout the women’s transition into the community and beyond.</p>

scholarly journals Involving Family Members of People with Dementia in  the Music Therapy Process at a Residential Care Facility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Patrice Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Residential Care Facility ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
People With Dementia

<p>The therapeutic use of music with older adults with dementia is widely documented, and family involvement is encouraged in both music therapy practice and dementia care services. This qualitative study explores and describes the experience of a student music therapist involving the family members of people with dementia in the music therapy process in a residential care facility. Grounded theory methodology informed analysis of the data sources. Secondary data was analysed and a theoretical perspective regarding family involvement in the music therapy process in this setting was developed. The findings are presented in main categories consisting of: building relationships, sharing information, unplanned family involvement in music therapy sessions, flexibility, spontaneity, joy and humour, and negotiation of the music therapist role in the community of the facility. The emergent theoretical perspective suggests that involving family members in the music therapy process in residential care facility is valuable in fostering and strengthening a sense of community between residents, family members and care staff.</p>

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