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Concepts of Music in Community Music Therapy

open access: yesVoices
This article explores how concepts of music shape music therapy practices, focusing on a three-year-long Community Music Therapy workshop with adolescents at a community center in Argentina. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from Nordoff-Robbins music
Santiago Bertoni
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How Can Music Build Community? Insight from Theories and Practice of Community Music Therapy

open access: yesVoices, 2016
Community music therapy has emerged as a widespread approach to music therapy practice since the beginning of the twenty-first century. This article outlines its development from an initial reaction against the individualistic consensus model of ...
Megan Ellen Steele
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Effects of comprehensive group music therapy on affect and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia undergoing community-based rehabilitation: a preliminary study [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience
Background and objectiveMost individuals with schizophrenia reside in the community, where they frequently encounter difficulties related to emotional problems and social functioning– critical areas of concern in the rehabilitation process.
Peikun Hong   +6 more
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Music Psychotherapy and Community Music Therapy: Questions and Considerations

open access: yesVoices, 2005
In his article on community music therapy, Aigen (2004) recognizes the challenges that can emerge when a new form of practice develops and he emphatically states that when these changes take place, "new ethical, self-reflexive, and conceptual signposts" (
Alan Turry
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Community Music Therapy and Participatory Performance

open access: yesVoices, 2019
This case study research explores the impact of a musical performance event—the Coffee House—held bi-annually at an adolescent mental health treatment facility in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
Elizabeth Mitchell
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Community Music Therapy & The Winds of Change

open access: yesVoices, 2002
I hope respondents to this article will outline, from the stance of their own individual or national contexts, convergent or divergent patterns to those I suggest - in the service of building a more inclusive map of this territory.
Gary Ansdell
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Community Music Therapy in the United States: A Thematic Analysis

open access: yesVoices, 2023
Community Music Therapy (CoMT) practices are continuing to develop within the international music therapy community. However, the development and implementation of music therapy through a CoMT lens in the United States has not been widely written about.
Kathleen M. Murphy   +4 more
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Mexican American Values and Therapeutic Alliance in Music Therapy

open access: yesVoices, 2023
The process of building rapport with clients varies across cultures. There are roles, values, and social expectations that music therapists must be aware of to establish a meaningful therapeutic alliance.
Marisa Deleon
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A Study of Japanese Concepts of Community

open access: yesVoices, 2007
How can Community Music Therapy be practiced in Japan? This paper aims to describe two Japanese concepts of community – "shakai" and "seken" – and to explore the relation between these two concepts and the practice of Community Music Therapy in Japan ...
Setsu Inoue
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Service Learning Within the Community Music Therapy Approach (CoMT)

open access: yesVoices, 2019
The paper explores service learning as one of the pedagogical methods for music therapy students in supporting them to become professionals who can adapt and practice a holistic approach.
Soo-Jin Kwoun
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