Laurel Young, PhD, MTA, FAMI Professional Leader, Creative Arts Therapies, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto CANADA and Kenneth Aigen, DA, LCAT, NRMT, MT-BC Associate Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia UNITED STATES Abstract: The teaching apprenticeship training program is an integral part of graduate study in music therapy at Temple University. Experiences of a music therapy professor [...]
Auli Lipponen Music Therapist Infant Family Mentor Abstract: This presentation will focus on the idea of my thesis and the latest results. The case study presented will focus on the similarities, and differences of contents between “ early interaction mother-baby music therapy” and a mother`s own music therapy. The connections of the mother-baby mirroring and [...]
Philippa Derrington, MA The Cottenham Schools Federation, Cambridge UNITED KINGDOM Abstract: This presentation will describe my research, the leading study of The Music Therapy Charity’s ‘Youth at Risk’ project. The aim is to evaluate and document the value of music therapy with students aged 11- 16 who are at risk of exclusion or who have [...]
Paul Lauzon MMT MTA Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia CANADA Abstract: This presentation presents a model of clinical techniques of improvisation in Music Therapy. In the Playwheel Model we see the elements of music woven into the dyadic relationship of therapist and individual. The basic techniques of therapeutic improvisation are categorized according to the parameters [...]
Anita Ayling Supervisor: Dr. Heidi Ahonen Abstract: This study will examine various client-therapist relationships and how they have been created. The researcher will conduct semi-structured interviews with five music therapists from four different countries (including herself). This qualitative study uses the phenomenological research method and its objective is to analyze and describe the experiences of [...]
Elaine Streeter, PhD Abstract: Music improvisation is difficult to evaluate. This presentation describes the development of the Music Therapy Logbook Evaluation System – a 21st century tool intended to help therapists record and log their music therapy improvisations, then undertake automatic and semiautomatic computational analysis of their music data (Streeter 2008). Research on music therapists’ [...]
Kumi Shimada Japan Abstract: In recent music therapy research, the communicative aspects of ‘musicing’ are discussed from various points of view such as Community Music Therapy (Pavlicevic & Ansdell 2004), Culture-Centered Music Therapy (Stige 2002), or the phenomenological investigation on therapeutic process (Kenny 1989). They show alternative ways of thinking about music therapy to the [...]
Presenting Author: Andrea Lamont, MMT, MTA Contributing Author: Sarah Dobbs, BA, MEd (in process) Abstract: The literature describing the benefits and effectiveness of music as a procedural support for medical interventions is well established but does not include Botulinum Toxin intervention to manage spasticity. In 2008, the Centre for the Arts team of Holland Bloorview [...]
Hiroko Miyake, Ph.D. Keio University, Tokyo, JAPAN Abstract In the medical model in music therapy, music has been regarded mainly as the object for treatment. On the other hand, in recent socio-cultural oriented model (contextual model), metaphor of music has been radically changing : music is conceived as a broader range of capacity from psycho-biological [...]
Joyce Leung, BFA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Abstract: Music plays an important role to individual and human relationships. Each single pitch represents a unique code and group of pitches form the language of music. Pitch originated as a musical term and has become a psychological term used to designate a perceived quality of sound. Deaf people [...]
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