Hope and change

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In issue 2 of this year, we announced that Grace Thompson agreed to become co-Editor-in-Chief and that Claire Ghetti was stepping down from her role as Associate Editor (Bradt, 2021). Because of these changes, we launched a search for two new Associate Editors and we are excited to announce that Andeline dos Santos and Stine Camilla Blichfeldt-Ærø joined our editorial team. Andeline is Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator for the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Her clinical and research expertise is in music therapy with high school students. She recently published an article about her research in our journal (dos Santos, 2020). Stine is a music therapy clinician at Oslo University Hospital, Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine and is part-time instructor in the Master’s program in music therapy at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Stine brings medical music therapy expertise to our team and has a special interest in discursive differences and challenges, on a philosophical, practical and academic level. We would like to thank Jason Butler, Editor of The Arts in Psychotherapy, for his time and valuable feedback as external member of our search committee. In addition, we would like to inform you about recent changes in our Advisory Editorial Board (AEB). Several AEB members rotated off the board after many years of service. We would like to sincerely thank them for their guidance and input during the past years: Drs. Jos De Backer, Cheryl Dileo, Denise Grocke, Helen Odell-Miller, Clare O’ Callaghan, Paul Nolan and Barbara Wheeler. We are happy to welcome several new AEB members: Dr. Kana Okazaki-Sakaue from Kobe University (Kobe, Japan), Dr. Sumathy Sundar from Chennai School of Music Therapy (Chennai, India) and Ga Eul Yoo from Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Republic of Korea). In this issue, we are delighted to include six research papers and one book review. The first two research papers collected important data about community understandings of music therapy and the growth of the profession in two countries for the first time. Karulkar, Gunjawate and Sundar (p. xx) conducted a survey of parents in India whose children access special education and therapy services to better understand parents’ awareness and knowledge of music therapy. They note that India has a long history of health and healing practices that include various music experiences, and yet there are still only small numbers of certified music therapists practicing in the country. This is the first survey of its kind in India, and therefore provides important insights into the professional standing of music therapy and the potential demand for future services. Seventy-