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Profile of Community Music Therapists in North America: A Survey

open access: yesVoices, 2015
This study surveyed music therapists (682 respondents from 1,890 survey recipients) to examine their experiences in terms of reported perceptions of their situations, their practices, their approaches, and their personal, work, and family concerns.
Sandra L. Curtis
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of group arts therapies (art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy) compared to group counselling for diagnostically heterogeneous psychiatric community patients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial in mental health services (the ERA study)

open access: yesTrials, 2023
Background Arts therapies are widely but inconsistently provided in community mental health. Whilst they are appealing to patients, evidence for their effectiveness is mixed. Trials to date have been limited to one art-form or diagnosis.
C. Carr   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"The Popular Organizaton Heals”

open access: yesVoices
This research was conducted in Santiago, Chile, between March 2022 and June 2023, with a group of eight men aged 35 to 50, who were members of a popular social organization focused on public health who denounce the current crisis and advocate for ...
Gonzalo Ureta-Fredes   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collaborative Work: Negotiations between Music Therapists and Community Musicians in the Development of a South African Community Music Therapy Project

open access: yesVoices, 2007
Music therapy in South Africa is slowly negotiating a practice that takes into account our continent's musical vibrancy, as well as contextual understandings of "health" and "illness." Although music therapy in the (so-called) developed world is situated
Helen Oosthuizen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy

open access: yesVoices
The mental health recovery movement recognises the importance of expertise by experience held by service users alongside healthcare practitioners.
Tríona McCaffrey   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feminist Music Therapists in North America: Their Lives and Their Practices

open access: yesVoices, 2015
This survey study investigated the lives and practices of those in North America who self-identify as feminist music therapists. Earlier reports from this survey studied: 1) the experiences of music therapists, with a comparison of men, women, and their ...
Sandra L. Curtis
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the impact of music therapy on two in-patient psychiatric wards for people living with dementia: retrospective observational study

open access: yesBJPsych Open, 2023
Background Music therapy can lift mood and reduce agitation for people living with dementia (PwD) in community and residential care settings, potentially reducing the prevalence of distress behaviours.
Naomi Thompson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) art in care of ageing society: focus on dementia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
open access articleBackground: Art enhances both physical and mental health wellbeing. The health benefits include reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, pain perception and briefer inpatient stays, as well as improvement of communication skills and ...
Harwood, Tracy   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Voices: World Forum for Music Therapy - A new avenue for communication among music therapy communities

open access: yesVoices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 2001
Welcome to the inaugural issue of a new international music therapy journal, electronically published and with free access. We're sure you have noticed the growing interest in the field of music therapy. The number of music therapists around the world is increasing every year. Diverse contexts for music therapy work grow too.
Carolyn Kenny, Brynjulf Stige
openaire   +2 more sources

The Perception and Practice of Community Music Therapy in Ireland

open access: yesVoices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 2018
The community music therapy (CoMT) approach is increasingly recognised as a valid way of working with clients in the context of their culture and society.
L. Murphy
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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