{"title":"Book Review: Trauma Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice","authors":"Imogen Dyer","doi":"10.1177/13594575231225386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231225386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"35 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139388797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The therapeutic relationship in music therapy in a Flexible Assertive Community Treatment team: A joint interview study of service users and their Music Therapist","authors":"Marie Strand Skånland, Gro Trondalen","doi":"10.1177/13594575231211298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231211298","url":null,"abstract":"Flexible Assertive Community Treatment provides integrated and community-based support to clients with mental illness and challenges in social functioning. Music therapy has been incorporated into several Norwegian Flexible Assertive Community Treatment teams, but there is limited published research on its outcomes. The Flexible Assertive Community Treatment model is recovery oriented, and the significance of robust relationships with staff members is emphasised. To understand the processes and critical factors in the relationships between service users and their Music Therapist in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment, we addressed the following research question: What characterises the relationship and interaction between the Music Therapist and the service user in the context of Flexible Assertive Community Treatment? Six joint interviews with service users and their Music Therapist were conducted using a dyadic approach. Using reflexive thematic analysis, the characteristics of the music therapy relationship were categorised in three themes; (1) the humanistic, therapeutic relationship, (2) the friendship-like relationship and (3) the musical relationship. The relationship between the service user and the Music Therapist is essential to therapeutic outcome, and links to common factors in therapy. Building relationships with the Music Therapist and the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment team may be a vital step towards social participation for the service user and may be understood as a critical factor towards recovery.","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"10 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139273699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Bob Heath, <i>Songs From a Window. End of Life Stories From the Music Therapy Room</i>","authors":"Helen Loth","doi":"10.1177/13594575231209216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231209216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"28 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135935047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Developing Issues in World Music Therapy Education and Training: A Plurality of Views","authors":"Elizabeth Coombes","doi":"10.1177/13594575231208114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231208114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135512987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding a pathway through music therapy: Supporting a woman with cerebral palsy to access her community","authors":"Alan John Wells","doi":"10.1177/13594575231199341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231199341","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the experiences and learning of the author during a year-long music therapy trainee placement at a drop-in centre for adults with disabilities. The context and setup of the placement are outlined and the author discusses how his approach was influenced by ideas taken from community music therapy literature. The article then focuses on how music therapy supported Shona, a woman with cerebral palsy, to access her community. The journey of Shona and the trainee Music Therapist is depicted as a joint pathway encompassing individual sessions, group work and performance; insights and reflections from the trainee’s tutors are discussed and the work is conceptualised in three stages. The affordances and limitations of iPad technology (with ‘Thumbjam’ software) are also discussed. The author reflects on the frustration he felt at different stages of this journey, where the advice of his tutors seemed to contradict each other. He concludes that there is no ‘right’ answer, only additional perspectives in a continual process of finding new ways to take the work forward. Shona’s story and her real name are used with her informed consent.","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135538601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial November 2023","authors":"Emma Millard","doi":"10.1177/13594575231199380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231199380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135864496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cornelia Bent, Donald Wetherick, Catherine Elizabeth Carr
{"title":"‘Filling the void with melody’: Therapists’ reflections on group songwriting using GarageBand in music therapy for adults with depression","authors":"Cornelia Bent, Donald Wetherick, Catherine Elizabeth Carr","doi":"10.1177/13594575231194304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231194304","url":null,"abstract":"Songwriting is widely used in individual music therapy but less often in groups. This article draws on the authors’ experience of facilitating music therapy groups for adults with severe depression using songwriting. This work was part of the SYNCHRONY study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, to assess the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial of group music therapy with a songwriting component for patients with long-term depression (1 year or longer) within the community. The authors (all music therapists in the study) describe their experiences and reflections on the group processes and use of songwriting, drawing on semi-structured interviews conducted as part of the study. Themes of the work included pre-composed songs as a more accessible way to talk about difficult experiences, musical improvisation enabling an environment for songwriting, the impact of difficulties in attendance on group cohesion and the songwriting process, building confidence through song development and recording, and considerations around the end process and creating the song album. These are illustrated with clinical vignettes. Some recommendations for practice are also offered. The authors hope to identify the potentials and challenges of a songwriting approach in a community mental health context.","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music therapy in paediatric palliative care: A scoping review","authors":"Monika Overå","doi":"10.1177/13594575231196406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231196406","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this scoping review is to summarise the existing empirical evidence and produce an overview of the ways in which music therapy in paediatric palliative care is described in the literature, with a specific focus on hospital-at-home. It was performed through searches undertaken in eight databases and completed using the methodological framework proposed by Arksey and O’Malley. The findings of the scoping review indicate the following: (1) there is no clear definition of music therapy in paediatric palliative care; (2) there is limited research on paediatric palliative care; (3) music therapy in hospital-at-home offers isolated patients and families a feeling of connectedness; (4) both expressive and receptive music therapy approaches are included in the existing studies, emphasising the need to adapt to the patient’s age, abilities, interests and energy levels; and (5) the outcomes of the music therapy discussed in the literature focus on enhancing the quality of life. Overall, music therapy appears to be an asset for the interdisciplinary team working to improve quality of life, but research methods which respond specifically to the voices of the children and adolescents must be developed to improve paediatric palliative care further.","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45577573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Colonialism and Music Therapy Interlocutors (CAMTI) Collective, Colonialism and Music Therapy","authors":"Michaela de Cruz","doi":"10.1177/13594575231194605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231194605","url":null,"abstract":"the effects of European colonialism and ongoing Eurocentric colonial structures on music therapy training, practice and the profession in different parts of the world. Going beyond the violent and widespread history of colonial","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45914018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Sabah Choudrey, Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive","authors":"F. Myerscough","doi":"10.1177/13594575231193322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13594575231193322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42422,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Music Therapy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44168702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}