Moving towards anti-oppressive practice in music therapy

IF 1.6 4区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI:10.1080/08098131.2023.2209402

B. Pickard

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It is a privilege to be invited to contribute an Editorial to this issue of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, which maintains and advances the momentum which Thompson’s (2022) call for respect-focused writing set in motion at the end of last year. It is a period of noticeable growth within the profession, with disability studies-informed and social justice-oriented perspectives emerging from theoretical and philosophical works initially, through to examples in practice, research, pedagogy, and increasingly in publications. There is an increasing acceptance that respectful, anti-ableist practice is everyone’s responsibility and not a specialist approach or focus, with ever-increasing dialogue about how to nurture, facilitate and achieve antioppressive aspirations in the profession. This welcome paradigm shift demonstrates the potential of music therapy as an evolving discipline to respond to multifaceted challenges and opportunities, and for antioppressive perspectives (Baines, 2021) to offer practitioners a valuable lens through which to develop and orientate their work. Through working toward dismantling the inaccurate historical binary and power dynamic between music therapy participants and music therapists, expertise by experience is increasingly understood and valued (Swamy & Webb, 2022). Several of the articles in this issue offer landmark examples of these ideas and signal a shift in the trajectory of research and practice in music therapy. In this issue, Marie Strand Skånland asks whether participation in music therapy, offered through flexible assertive community treatment (a Dutch model of communitybased, recovery-oriented mental health care) can contribute to social recovery (p. 290). This recovery-oriented position shifts emphasis from a pathologizing model to recognition of personal and social recovery, with potential for music therapy to optimise the participant’s health. Skånland proposes that the relational experiences shared in the research may add to the service users’ feelings of being met as equal human beings:

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走向音乐治疗中的反压迫实践

我很荣幸被邀请为本期《北欧音乐治疗杂志》撰写社论，该杂志保持并推动了汤普森（2022）呼吁以尊重为重点的写作于去年年底启动的势头。这是一个行业内显著增长的时期，从最初的理论和哲学著作，到实践、研究、教育学中的例子，以及越来越多的出版物中，都出现了以残疾研究为基础、以社会正义为导向的观点。人们越来越认识到，尊重、反对残疾人的做法是每个人的责任，而不是专业的方法或重点，关于如何培养、促进和实现职业中的反压迫愿望的对话也越来越多。这一受欢迎的范式转变表明，音乐治疗作为一门不断发展的学科，有潜力应对多方面的挑战和机遇，并从反抑制的角度（Baines，2021）为从业者提供一个宝贵的视角，通过这个视角来发展和定位他们的工作。通过努力消除音乐治疗参与者和音乐治疗师之间不准确的历史二元性和权力动态，经验专业知识越来越被理解和重视（Swamy&Webb，2022）。本期的几篇文章提供了这些想法的里程碑式例子，并标志着音乐治疗研究和实践轨迹的转变。在本期文章中，Marie Strand Skånland询问，通过灵活自信的社区治疗（荷兰基于社区、以康复为导向的心理健康护理模式）提供的音乐治疗是否有助于社会康复（第290页）。这种以康复为导向的立场将重点从病理模型转移到对个人和社会康复的认识，并有可能通过音乐治疗来优化参与者的健康。Skånland提出，研究中分享的关系体验可能会增加服务用户被视为平等人类的感受：

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Nordic Journal of Music Therapy REHABILITATION-

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3.50

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期刊介绍： Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (NJMT) is published in collaboration with GAMUT - The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (Uni Health and University of Bergen), with financial support from Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences and in co-operation with university programs and organizations of music therapy in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy serves the international community of music therapy by being an avenue for publication of scholarly articles, texts on practice, theory and research, dialogues and discussions, reviews and critique. Publication of the journal is based on the collaboration between the music therapy communities in the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the three Baltic Countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This international but still regional foundation offers a platform for development of communication with the broader international community of music therapy. Scholars from all over the world are welcomed to write in the journal. Any kind of scholarly articles related to the field of music therapy are welcomed. All articles are reviewed by two referees and by the editors, to ensure the quality of the journal. Since the field of music therapy is still young, we work hard to make the review process a constructive learning experience for the author. The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy does not step aside from active engagement in the development of the discipline, in order to stimulate multicultural, meta-theoretical and philosophical discussions, and new and diverse forms of inquiry. The journal also stimulates reflections on music as the medium that defines the discipline. Perspectives inspired by musicology and ethnomusicology are therefore welcomed.