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work in one-on-one or group settings. Music therapy is used with people of varying ages, experiences, and challenges, which may include but are not limited to physical and. mental health, trauma, and well-being. Music therapy methods can include recreation of. pre-composed music, listening, composition, and improvisation (Hiller).
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Music therapy is a form of therapy that integrates music and therapeutic techniques to improve emotional, cognitive, and physical functioning. Developed in the early 20th century and formalized by pioneers such as E. Thayer Gaston and Nordoff-Robbins, music therapy combines elements of music creation, performance, and listening with therapeutic ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Receptive: The client listens to music and responds to the experience silently, verbally, or in another modality (eg. art, dance). The music used may be live, or a recording. Some types of receptive approaches may include music-assisted relaxation, as well as the use of music and imagery. Goals may encompass several areas, including:
- 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 ...
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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.) (2003). They use the term “realization” to ...
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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. It considers in particular how music therapists may valuably ...
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Jul 5, 2021 · Strange J (2017b) Improvised music to support child-assistant interaction: The perceptions of music therapists. In: Strange J, Odell-Miller H, Richards E (eds) Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice: Roles, Relationships, Challenges. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 235–252.
