Core Themes in Music Therapy Clinical Improvisation: An Arts-Informed Qualitative Research Synthesis

Meadows, Anthony; Wimpenny, Katherine

doi:10.1093/jmt/thx006

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“…In addition to exploring the brain mechanism, the influence of music on other physiological indexes has always been the focus of researchers. Meadows et al [17] prove that music has a significant influence on human physiological values, including blood pressure, myocardial contraction, respiration, heart rate and other physiological States. In the work of Pé rez-Eizaguirre et al [18] , it is found that music therapy can affect the heart rate and breathing of patients with heart surgery, and can help reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure, which is beneficial to the rehabilitation of patients.…”

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Music education curriculum design based on the adjustment of college students’ mental health

Ma,

Heng

2023

Environ. Soc. Psychol.

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Music aesthetic education can affect people’s emotions through hearing, thereby directly affecting their hearts, sublimating their emotions, and eventually purifying their hearts. Music can enrich college students’ imagination and also make them fully relaxed, thereby making their personality livelier and more cheerful and enabling them to better complete their learning tasks. This study proposes a curriculum design of music education based on the research on the regulating effect of music education on college students’ mental health (MH). Results indicated that music aesthetic appreciation has evident intervention effect on the overall level of MH and interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, and terror of the experimental group. Accordingly, the curriculum of music education in colleges and universities runs through the appreciation of classic classics with a vertical line of music historical development. Hence, students are able to appreciate popular songs and also understand the musical styles and aesthetic orientations in certain stages of music development. Therefore, the proposed music education course takes the adjustment of college students’ MH as the guiding ideology, emphasizes the main position of students’ MH, encourages students to actively construct knowledge, strengthens cooperation and communication, and better completes teaching tasks.

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“…This study selected the SCL-90 scale as the main measuring tool for pre-and post-tests to observe changes in the experimental results [17,18] . This scale contains 90 questions, and each question is scored by 5 points.…”

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Music education curriculum design based on the adjustment of college students’ mental health

Ma,

Heng

2023

Environ. Soc. Psychol.

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“…The role of the music therapist in the free improvisation music-making stream is to musically support the participant as they explore the iPad-based instrument through free improvisation. In order to do this, the music therapist will draw upon pre-existing frameworks for therapeutic improvisation (Meadows & Wimpenny, 2017) that are individualised to each participant. These frameworks include, but are not restricted to, empathic improvisation, reflective improvisation, grounding and holding (Wigram, 2004).…”

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Functional electrical stimulation+iPad-based music therapy for upper limb recovery after stroke: Study protocol for a mixed methods randomised controlled trial

Silveira

Dorsch

Thompson

et al. 2020

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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Introduction: Music therapy offers an effective avenue for simultaneously addressing goals of upper limb function and wellbeing post stroke. However, there are currently no trials of therapeutic music-making interventions for stroke survivors with a very weak upper limb (Grade 0-3 level of strength). This randomised controlled trial will examine the effect of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) with iPad-based music therapy on upper limb recovery and wellbeing outcomes for stroke survivors.Method: This convergent mixed methods study will take place at seven participating hospitals in Sydney, Australia. Forty participants will be randomly allocated to usual care only or usual care plus daily FES+iPad-based music therapy for four weeks (20 sessions). Standardised assessments of the paretic upper limb and self-report wellbeing measures will be administered at three time points (pre-and postintervention, and at three months follow up) by a blinded assessor. All participants will be interviewed about their perceptions of the way the treatment they received (usual care only or usual care plus daily FES+iPad-based music therapy) supported their recovery.Results: Ethics approval has been granted and data collection has commenced.

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Evaluation for Arts-Based Research Performance: Audience Perceptions ofRising from the Ashes

Viega

2021

Journal of Music Therapy

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The purpose of the study is to understand how audiences evaluated an arts-based research performance called Rising from the Ashes. Audience evaluation promises egalitarian and pluralistic perspectives that may assist artist-as-researchers with gaining new insight into out of performative arts-based research results. Rising from the Ashes was performed several times between 2015 and 2019. Evaluations were provided to six different audiences and consisted of rating-scale and open-ended questions based on general criteria for judging arts-based research: incisiveness, concision, generativity, social significance, evocation and illumination, and coherence. Descriptive rating scores and thematic analysis of open-ended questions aided in the artist-as-researcher’s understanding of how audiences responded to the performances. Descriptive scores showed that audiences strongly agreed that the performance was concise, incisive, and evocative and illuminating. The performance was less likely to support audiences’ understanding of the social issues addressed in the study, which implied decreased generativity and social significance. Open-ended questions enhanced and supported rating-scale responses as well as revealed specific elements of the performance that addressed its coherence. The results deepened the artists-as-researcher’s understanding of potential strengths and limitations of Rising from the Ashes based on the audience evaluations. Implications for arts-based research evaluation in music therapy, particularly related to music performance, are discussed.

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Core Themes in Music Therapy Clinical Improvisation: An Arts-Informed Qualitative Research Synthesis

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Music education curriculum design based on the adjustment of college students’ mental health

Music education curriculum design based on the adjustment of college students’ mental health

Functional electrical stimulation+iPad-based music therapy for upper limb recovery after stroke: Study protocol for a mixed methods randomised controlled trial

Evaluation for Arts-Based Research Performance: Audience Perceptions ofRising from the Ashes

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