Effects of comprehensive group music therapy on affect and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia undergoing community-based rehabilitation: a preliminary study [PDF]
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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How Can Music Build Community? Insight from Theories and Practice of Community Music Therapy
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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Community Music Therapy in the United States: A Thematic Analysis
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
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
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)
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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A Systematic Review of Music Therapy Practice and Outcomes with Acute Adult Psychiatric In-Patients [PDF]
PMCID: PMC3732280This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
A Davies +83 more
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Being Who You Aren't; Doing What You Can't: Community Music Therapy & the Paradoxes of Performance
This article gives some introductory thoughts on the 'paradoxes of performance' in contemporary music therapy, through the perspective of the evolving practice and discourse of Community Music Therapy—where aspects of the practice, theory and ethics of ...
Gary Ansdell
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Community Music Therapy for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities
Examination of the lives of people with developmental disabilities in the 21st century highlights the need to formulate creative solutions for the challenge of providing meaningful community engagement. The Performing Arts Program described in this paper
Sandra L. Curtis, Chesley Sigmon Mercado
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No-one is Unmusical:Elizabeth, Everyday Cheermongery, and Active Musical Citizenship [PDF]
Everyday cheermongers spread positive emotion through social contagion. This capability is illustrated here through a portrait of Elizabeth, a ‘Suzuki method’ violin teacher in Edinburgh.
Thin, Neil
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