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Improvisation is used in therapy in many different ways that may involve. improvisations by therapist, client, or both. In clinical improvisation, therapist and patient. interact through on-the-spot musical composition using instruments, vocals, and other. forms of media (Hiller).
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Jan 31, 2020 · This paper discusses the nature of group music therapy when its practice involves both free musical improvisation and verbal exchange.
Music therapists Alan Turry and David Marcus describe the advantages of including compositions in group music therapy in the chapter “Using the Nordoff-Robbins Approach to Music Therapy with Adults Diagnosed with Autism” in Action Therapy with Families and Groups: Using Creative Arts Improvisation in Clinical Practice, (Weiner & Oxford (Eds ...
- MicheleR@maketherapymusical.com
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- Characteristics of Improvisation
- Effects on Health Or Wellbeing
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- Aesthetic and Therapeutic Improvising
The Medline and PsycInfo databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles in English with all of the search terms music*, improvis* and either therap*, well-being or health* in the abstract, returning 177 articles. In addition published works known to the authors were reviewed, and the reference lists of identified articles were checked f...
Although database searches were not exclusively limited to interventions labelled as ‘therapy’, all the relevant references examined or discussed music therapy; that is, improvisation undertaken with therapeutic intent, involving a trained and certified music therapist. Rolvsjord et al. ([2005]) identifies improvisation as an ‘essential but not uni...
Therapy involving musical improvisation has been studied in application to a wide range of groups and conditions, including patients in rehabilitation from neurological damage (Aigen [2009]; Pavlicevic and Ansdell [2004]); patients with substance use disorders (Albornoz [2011]); cancer patients (Burns et al. [2001]; Pothoulaki et al. [2012]); patie...
The mechanisms by which improvisation facilitates enhancements to health or wellbeing are not always specified in the literature, where the focus may be on demonstrating effectiveness of the intervention as a whole. This is largely the case for studies observing an effect of improvisation on physical conditions arising from neurological damage, alt...
The literature reviewed above has examined uses of musical improvisation within therapy. Improvisation is of course more widely practiced than in therapy alone, primarily for aesthetic purposes (Aldridge [1998]). To consider how the study of therapeutic improvising might inform our understanding of improvising in other contexts, it is important to ...
- Raymond Ar MacDonald, Graeme B Wilson
- 2014
Analytical Music Therapy: This approach uses improvised musical “dialogue” through singing or playing an instrument to express unconscious thoughts, which are then reflected upon and discussed with the therapist. It aims to provide insight into inner psychological processes and facilitate emotional healing.
It discusses the acquisition of improvisation skills, different styles of improvisation, and how such a flexible and creative form of music-making can be applied in therapeutic work. Finally, it describes the results from a research study where improvisational music therapy was applied to achieve measurable benefits for young children with ...
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