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Hubert J Bardenheuer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Music Therapy in palliative care
Deutsches Arzteblatt International, 2015Co-Authors: Marco Warth, Thomas K. Hillecke, Jens Kesler, Hubert J BardenheuerAbstract:Music Therapy has been used successfully for over 30 years as part of palliative care programs for severely ill patients. There is nonetheless a lack of high-quality studies that would enable an evidence-based evaluation of its psychological and physiological effects.In a randomized controlled trial, 84 hospitalized patients in palliative care were assigned to one of two treatment arms--Music Therapy and control. The Music Therapy intervention consisted of two sessions of live Music-based relaxation exercises; the patients in the control group listened to a verbal relaxation exercise. The primary endpoints were self-ratings of relaxation, well-being, and acute pain, assessed using visual analog scales. Heart rate variability and health-related quality of life were considered as secondary outcomes. The primary data analysis was performed according to the intention-to-treat principle.Analyses of covariance revealed that Music Therapy was more effective than the control treatment at promoting relaxation (F = 13.7; p <0.001) and well-being (F = 6.41; p = 0.01). This effect was supported by a significantly greater increase in high-frequency oscillations of the heart rate (F = 8.13; p = 0.01). Music Therapy did not differ from control treatment with respect to pain reduction (F = 0.4; p = 0.53), but it led to a significantly greater reduction in the fatigue score on the quality-of-life scale (F = 4.74; p = 0.03).Music Therapy is an effective treatment with a low dropout rate for the promotion of relaxation and well-being in terminally ill persons undergoing palliative care.
Jane Edwards - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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"Music Therapy Helped Me Get Back Doing": Perspectives of Music Therapy Participants in Mental Health Services.
Journal of music therapy, 2016Co-Authors: Tríona Mary Mccaffrey, Jane EdwardsAbstract:Background Mental health service development internationally is increasingly informed by the collaborative ethos of recovery. Service user evaluation of experiences within Music Therapy programs allows new phenomena about participation in services to be revealed that might otherwise remain unnoticed. Objective The aim of this study was to demonstrate how asking service users about their experience of Music Therapy can generate useful information, and to reflect upon the feedback elicited from such processes in order to gain a deeper understanding of how Music Therapy is received among service users in mental health. Methods Six mental health service users described their experiences of Music Therapy in one or two individual interviews. Transcripts of interviews were analyzed using the procedures and techniques of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results Interviews with mental health service users provided rich, in-depth accounts reflecting the complex nature of Music Therapy participation. Super-ordinate themes refer to the context in which Music Therapy was offered, the rich sound world of Music in Music Therapy, the humanity of Music Therapy, and the strengths enhancing opportunities experienced by service users. Conclusions Participants indicated that they each experienced Music Therapy in unique ways. Opinions about the value of Music Therapy were revealed through an interview process in which the researcher holds an open attitude, welcoming all narrative contributions respectfully. These findings can remind practitioners of the importance of closely tuning into the perspectives and understandings of those who have valuable expertise to share about their experience of Music Therapy services in mental health.
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Oxford handbook of Music Therapy
2015Co-Authors: Jane EdwardsAbstract:In the Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy, international leaders in the field from 10 countries have contributed their expertise to showcase contemporary Music Therapy.
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Music Therapy for Hospitalized Children
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015Co-Authors: Jane Edwards, Jeanette KennellyAbstract:This chapter provides information about Music Therapy practice with children receiving care in a hospital, including information about Music Therapy service development in new settings. Music Therapy offers opportunities for children and their families to be supported while undergoing difficult experiences following an injury or during an illness. Children with life-limiting conditions, and with chronic illness are also treated in hospitals, and can benefit from specialized support and help to cope with their circumstances. Music Therapy can be provided to address treatment goals relating to psychosocial care, rehabilitation, pain management, developmental skill attainment, palliative care, and family issues. Music therapists use Music improvisation, song singing, instrumental playing, Music listening, and Music composition, particularly song writing, to support young patients and their families. There is an emerging evidence base to support the role of Music Therapy as helpful to children and families needing support to cope with hospitalization and treatments.
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Developmental Music Therapy
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015Co-Authors: Jane Edwards, Jason Francis NooneAbstract:Developmental Music Therapy (DMT) is a model that underpins Music Therapy practice with multiple client groups. The resonances of DMT can be found whenever Music therapists use any or all of their understanding of developmental stages, family context, and social and cultural frameworks to consider needs and interactions within individual or group Music Therapy. Music Therapy training courses teach developmental theories, and therefore most practising Music therapists use these theoretical perspectives in their interactions with clients. Thus chapter will show how developmental Music Therapy refers to three major theoretical orientations: (1) Theories of stress, coping, and adaption; (2) Human life span development, including stage models of development, and Musical milestones of development; and (3) Ecological perspectives such as Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of development (Bronfenbrenner 1979). Boxill consistently termed her approach developmental Music Therapy (Boxill 1989). Therefore, this chapter provides an overview of Boxill’s writings and theoretical positioning within DMT.
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The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015Co-Authors: Jane EdwardsAbstract:SECTION ONE: Music Therapy CONTEXTS AND POPULATIONS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN SECTION TWO: APPROACHES AND MODELS OF Music Therapy SECTION THREE: Music Therapy METHODS SECTION FOUR: Music Therapy RESEARCH SECTION FIVE: Music Therapy TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Thomas K. Hillecke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Music Therapy in palliative care
Deutsches Arzteblatt International, 2015Co-Authors: Marco Warth, Thomas K. Hillecke, Jens Kesler, Hubert J BardenheuerAbstract:Music Therapy has been used successfully for over 30 years as part of palliative care programs for severely ill patients. There is nonetheless a lack of high-quality studies that would enable an evidence-based evaluation of its psychological and physiological effects.In a randomized controlled trial, 84 hospitalized patients in palliative care were assigned to one of two treatment arms--Music Therapy and control. The Music Therapy intervention consisted of two sessions of live Music-based relaxation exercises; the patients in the control group listened to a verbal relaxation exercise. The primary endpoints were self-ratings of relaxation, well-being, and acute pain, assessed using visual analog scales. Heart rate variability and health-related quality of life were considered as secondary outcomes. The primary data analysis was performed according to the intention-to-treat principle.Analyses of covariance revealed that Music Therapy was more effective than the control treatment at promoting relaxation (F = 13.7; p <0.001) and well-being (F = 6.41; p = 0.01). This effect was supported by a significantly greater increase in high-frequency oscillations of the heart rate (F = 8.13; p = 0.01). Music Therapy did not differ from control treatment with respect to pain reduction (F = 0.4; p = 0.53), but it led to a significantly greater reduction in the fatigue score on the quality-of-life scale (F = 4.74; p = 0.03).Music Therapy is an effective treatment with a low dropout rate for the promotion of relaxation and well-being in terminally ill persons undergoing palliative care.
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Scientific perspectives on Music Therapy.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2005Co-Authors: Thomas K. Hillecke, Anne Kathrin Nickel, Hans Volker BolayAbstract:What needs to be done on the long road to evidence-based Music Therapy? First of all, an adequate research strategy is required. For this purpose the general methodology for Therapy research should be adopted. Additionally, Music Therapy needs a variety of methods of allied fields to contribute scientific findings, including mathematics, natural sciences, behavioral and social sciences, as well as the arts. Pluralism seems necessary as well as inevitable. At least two major research problems can be identified, however, that make the path stony: the problem of specificity and the problem of eclecticism. Neuroscientific research in Music is giving rise to new ideas, perspectives, and methods; they seem to be promising prospects for a possible contribution to a theoretical and empirical scientific foundation for Music Therapy. Despite the huge heterogeneity of theoretical approaches in Music Therapy, an integrative model of working ingredients in Music Therapy is useful as a starting point for empirical studies in order to question what specifically works in Music Therapy. For this purpose, a heuristic model, consisting of five Music Therapy working factors (attention modulation, emotion modulation, cognition modulation, behavior modulation, and communication modulation) has been developed by the Center for Music Therapy Research (Viktor Dulger Institute) in Heidelberg. Evidence shows the effectiveness of Music Therapy for treating certain diseases, but the question of what it is in Music Therapy that works remains largely unanswered. The authors conclude with some questions to neuroscientists, which we hope may help elucidate relevant aspects of a possible link between the two disciplines.
Paul Cary - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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LibGuides: Music Therapy: Books
2012Co-Authors: Paul CaryAbstract:A Library Research Guide for Music Therapy students. This guide is designed to help you navigate the wide variety of Music Therapy resources available through the Jones Music Library.
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LibGuides: Music Therapy: Home
2012Co-Authors: Paul CaryAbstract:A Library Research Guide for Music Therapy students. This guide is designed to help you navigate the wide variety of Music Therapy resources available through the Jones Music Library.
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LibGuides: Music Therapy: Journals
2012Co-Authors: Paul CaryAbstract:A Library Research Guide for Music Therapy students. This guide is designed to help you navigate the wide variety of Music Therapy resources available through the Jones Music Library.
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LibGuides: Music Therapy: Bibliography
2012Co-Authors: Paul CaryAbstract:A Library Research Guide for Music Therapy students. This guide is designed to help you navigate the wide variety of Music Therapy resources available through the Jones Music Library.
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LibGuides: Music Therapy: Databases
2012Co-Authors: Paul CaryAbstract:A Library Research Guide for Music Therapy students. This guide is designed to help you navigate the wide variety of Music Therapy resources available through the Jones Music Library.
Denise Grocke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Receptive Music Therapy
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015Co-Authors: Denise GrockeAbstract:In the Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy, international leaders in the field from 10 countries have contributed their expertise to showcase contemporary Music Therapy.
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Receptive Music Therapy
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015Co-Authors: Denise GrockeAbstract:Listening to Music is an everyday experience for most people. In Music Therapy Music listening can be used to support many therapeutic goals. This chapter presents an overview of methods used in receptive Music Therapy that are supported by research literature, including Music-assisted relaxation, Music and imagery, and Guided Imagery and Music (Bonny Method). Salient features of each approach are outlined and supported with evidence-based research. Elements of Music used in relaxation and imagery are discussed in some further depth to highlight the need for greater transparency when reporting the effect of recorded and live Music in receptive Music Therapy.
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Celebrating the Voice of Music Therapy
Australian journal of music education, 2005Co-Authors: Denise GrockeAbstract:Music Therapy was established as an allied health profession in Australia in 1975 and celebrates 30 years of development in 2005. Traditional areas of Music Therapy practice are as relevant today as in 1975, however new areas of practice, substantiated by research, have unfolded. Results of studies at The University of Melbourne indicate that Music Therapy is effective in the management of anxiety and pain, in reducing agitated behaviours and increasing orientation, and in facilitating non-verbal communication. Music Therapy is practised in hospitals and special schools and increasingly in community programs. The fields of Music Therapy and Music education are thus aligned in many ways.
