Valerie Sheese, BFA, MMT Candidate Research Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn L. R. Arnason Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, CANADA Abstract: The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine and present a client’s point of view of their own music therapy experiences. Purposeful sampling was employed to identify a client who was able to provide an insightful [...]
Dr. Heidi Ahonen, Professor of Music Therapy, WLU; Director of Manfred and Penny Conrad Institute for Music Therapy Research, Canada Workshop: The therapist’s and counselor’s own self is a tool s/he uses as a transference object and role model in the therapeutic relationship. They also uses themselves as containers into which a client can release [...]
Brian Abrams, Ph.D., MT-BC Montclair State University, New Jersey USA Abstract: Music can be understood fundamentally as a human, arts-based phenomenon, centrally involving the dimension of relationship, or ways of being together in and through the time-ordered aesthetics, creativity, and imagination. Given that music is the foundation of the music therapy discipline, the practice of [...]
Patricia Deek, MMT candidate, Dr. Heidi Ahonen, Research Supervisor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, CANADA Abstract: Exploring one’s identity through sounds and improvisation is a means of increasing awareness of who one is, how one relates to others and what one’s place is in the world. Specifically, this presentation is based on group improvisations of adolescents [...]
Daniel Rose, MMT candidate, Bachelor of Arts with Psychology major Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario Canada Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine potential therapeutic applications of electric bass guitars in music therapy sessions. The researcher conducted interviews with music therapists who have used the bass guitar during sessions, providing information regarding the [...]
Demian Kogutek BMT, MMT (cand) Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario Canada Abstract: The purpose of this research is to incorporate Tango music into a clinical improvisational setting. The main question being, how does the musical component of tango affect the therapeutic process? The objective is to analyze the qualities of improvised tango, specifically dynamics, rhythmic, [...]
Principal investigator: Davina Leong, BScOT(c), MMT Candidate Advisor: Dr. Carolyn L. R. Arnason, MTA, Research Supervisor Abstract: As music therapists, our colleagues in allied health professions are often our greatest advocates. It is important to be aware of how they perceive our work and how we can influence their understanding of music therapy. Music therapists [...]
Paul Gray, USA Abstract: Paul Gray received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1970 from Wilfrid Laurier University, obtained his CPA designation in 1975 and became a partner with KPMG (formerly Peat Marwick) in 1978. Mr. Gray entered the health care industry in 1982 in Houston Texas, focusing on skilled nursing facilities and development of [...]
Amanda Schenstead, Music Therapist, Master of Music Therapy (MMT), MTA, BMus Wascana Rehabilitation Centre, Regina, SK CANADA Abstract: This heuristic, arts-based research project provides an in-depth look at the researcher’s imaginative exploration of flute improvisation and her responses to the various phenomena she experiences while in this creative space. After exploring flute improvisation in 25 [...]
Joel Kroeker, RCC, MTA, MA, MMT, Bmus Masters in Music Therapy, Wilfrid Laurier University Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Services Fraser Health – Vancouver Coastal/Burnaby Vancouver, BC, Canada Abstract: Through this arts-based heuristic case study I offer a music therapy method for exploring the human condition through the creative emergence, personification and amplification of archetypal psyche [...]
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