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Clinical Improvisation is a generative and creative process of musical intervention involving the client's spontaneous creation of sounds and music. It helps the client to explore aspects of self, in relation to others, in an appropriate way. Improvisation also generates new and individualized musical forms.
Jan 31, 2020 · Improvisation is also a defining feature of music therapy since it can facilitate a clinical relationship between therapist and client (Wigram, 2004; Foubert, 2020; Foubert et al.,...
Improvisation in music therapy is seen to have specific benefits for particular populations including the amelioration of neurological damage, improvements in mental health conditions, reductions in stress and anxiety, and improved communication and joint attention behaviours in children with autistic spectrum disorders.
- MacDonald RAR, Wilson GB
- Musical improvisation and health: a review
- Journal Article
- 2014
improvisation in music therapy can be used to help people express and share their in-the- moment feelings. It can also be practiced by people with little to no musical background.
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- Characteristics of Improvisation
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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
Improvisation plays a central role in music therapy clinical practice, and the use of clinical improvisation is, in large part, what sets music therapists apart and makes our contribution to health care so unique. The growing body of literature focusing on improvisational approaches in music therapy as well as on broadening the clinical ...
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This comprehensive guide introduces the fundamentals of improvisational music therapy, surveys over 25 models of therapy, and synthesizes the various models into basic principles of clinical practice.
