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Rickson DJ. Instructional and improvisational models of music therapy with adolescents who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A comparison of the effects on motor impulsivity. Journal of Music Therapy. 2006;43(1):39–62. doi: 10.1093/jmt/43.1.39. [Google Scholar] Rickson DJ, Watkins WG.
- Method
- Characteristics of Improvisation
- Effects on Health Or Wellbeing
- Mechanisms
- 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
The handful of evidence-based music therapy studies on psychiatric conditions have shown promising results. Traditional music, such as Indian classical music, has only recently been evaluated in evidence-based research into music therapy. The need for systematic research in this area is underscored. An overview of Indian classical music
Jan 1, 2009 · A distinction was made between music improvisation and clinical improvisation. The survey sought responses regarding client populations, goals, theoretical orientations, influential models of improvisational music therapy, and musical media that are relevant to MT-BCs' use of improvisation in therapy.
- James Hiller
- 2009
Jul 26, 2021 · The dose was in line with the dose of improvisational music therapy for children and adolescents with behavioural and emotional problems that was used in a study by Porter et al. (Citation 2017) showing a decrease in depressive symptoms. The phasing was experienced as pleasant and functional to work on ER.
- Sonja Aalbers, Sonja Aalbers, Annemieke Vink, Martina de Witte, Martina de Witte, Kim Pattiselanno, ...
- 2021
Nov 1, 2020 · Erkkila et al. (2011) also found that improvisational music therapy decreased anxiety and Punkanen, Eerola, and Erkkila (2011) suggested that depressed individuals tend to evaluate emotions negatively compared to healthy controls in music therapy. These findings support the usefulness of the students’ strategy to focus and improve emotion regulation strategies of negative feelings in particular.
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Jun 28, 2008 · The music therapy to be offered is based on the ideas and principles of improvisational music therapy [21,22], and the application of the ideas of Priestley's analytical music therapy. The practical application of the clinical improvisation method has been developed during the training of therapists involved in this research project at JYU Music Therapy Clinic for Research and Training.
