Starting out in music therapy process research

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Sue Van Colle ◽  
Tim Williams
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Therapy Process

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>

Visible through an Audible Voice

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gro Trondalen
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Improvised Music

This article describes a music therapy process with a 14-year-old girl I will call Sara, who had ceased talking for some years. Sara was an in-patient at a Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During nine months of individual music therapy, Sara presented herself through improvised music and eventually an audible voice. In this article I argue that what I term relating experiences through music has contributed to strengthening Sara's ‘self-in-relation’ and given her space for increased autonomy. This allowed Sara to perceive herself in new ways, which led to a more permanent sense of her identity.

scholarly journals Rethinking Music Therapy From the Perspective of Bio-politics

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Miyake
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Social Conformity ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Cultural Inclusion ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Political Implications

In this article, I intend to reconsider music therapy process from the perspectives of bio-power and bio-politics by Foucault (1977, 1990), Agamben (1998, 1999) and Hardt & Negri (2000, 2004). My interest is in the political implications of music therapy. I examine discussions of music therapists on the first session of Edward that appeared in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (2003). In this article, a predilection to culturally acceptable musical expression is suggested. This musical integration might increase "possibilities of action" or might be a process of civilization (social conformity). When I position these arguments beside bio-politics, the discourses are exclusively discussed from the side of bios, or civilization. Little concern seems to be rendered from the perspective of zoe. Can the cultural inclusion through music therapy really help clients construct identities? To go beyond this, I introduce Hardt and Negris' concept of multitude. This concept seems to resonate with many recent music therapists' intentions. The new ways of music making and therapy that can respect the singularity of musical expressions. I suggest that common ideas might be more acceptable within this conceptual framework.

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.

Chaos, Noise and a Wall of Silence: Working with Primitive Affects in Psychodynamic Group Music Therapy

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Chronic Mental Illness ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Emotional Communication ◽  
Single Session ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Theoretical Standpoint

This article explores the efficacy of weekly psychodynamic group music therapy with those with chronic mental illness in a Therapeutic Community setting. An exploration of the author's general theoretical standpoint acts as the context for a discussion of the group in question and the specific approach that has evolved over four years' work. The group's use of the music therapy process is examined in the light of a single session, and its underlying processes are further explored in relation to Wilfred Bion's theory of K and minus K (Bion 1967). The music therapy is viewed essentially as providing a space for emotional communication and resonance to a group whose members are all severely isolated, silent and cut off.

scholarly journals Music Therapy and Eating Disorders- A Single Case Study about the Sound of Human Needs

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Therapy Intervention

In this article, I reflect on a music therapy intervention realized many years ago, with a young woman who had the diagnosis of Bulimia Nervosa. The concepts to which I will refer are the concept of resource orientated psychotherapy and the Bernese concept of need adapted -and motivational attunement (Grawe, 1998; Grawe and Grawe-Gerber, 1999; Stucki and Grawe, 2007). I re-viewed one of my cases, Ms. H., following some of the ideas developed by the authors.  I discovered various moments of interest, which made me think in terms of a Need Adapted Music Therapy process. Therefore, in the presentation of the case, besides talking about the patient’s eating disorder I want to point out her basic needs and how she demanded for them to be met symbolically during shared improvisational moments with the music therapist. And even if the therapist did not have the mentioned concepts in her mind at the time, it seems as if patient and therapist met quite often in this kind of “silent space of needs”.

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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