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Arbeitszufriedenheit von Musiktherapeut*innen in den Vereinigten Staaten: Eine Mixed-Methods Analyse
No full textDiese Mixed-Methods Studie berichtet über die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Musiktherapeut*innen, die in den Vereinigten Staaten tätig sind. Insgesamt nahmen 1.154 staatlich geprüfte Musiktherapeut*innen an der Umfrage mit 28 Fragen teil. Die Fragen bezogen sich auf den Arbeitsplatz, die Arbeit an sich, Erfahrungen bei der beruflichen Entwicklung sowie auf Stress-, Burnout- und Zufriedenheitsaspekte. In zwei offenen Fragen wurden die Befragten gebeten über ihre Identität als Musiktherapeut*innen nachzudenken. Die Gesamtwerte für die Arbeitszufriedenheit wurden anschließend in Quartile eingeteilt, welche Gruppen mit hoher, mittlerer und niedriger Arbeitszufriedenheit charakterisieren. Musiktherapeut*innen, die eine hohe Arbeitszufriedenheit angaben, zeigten ein signifikant höheres Maß an positiver Zustimmung bei Fragen zur Arbeitszufriedenheit als jene Musiktherapeut*innen, welche eine mittlere oder niedrige Arbeitszufriedenheit angaben. Die Arbeitszufriedenheit stand auch in signifikantem Zusammenhang mit Stress, Burnout und Zufriedenheit. Die Profile der Musiktherapeut*innen, die eine hohe, mäßige und niedrige Arbeitszufriedenheit angaben, wurden weiter mit ihrer Musiktherapeut*innen-Identität in Verbindung gebracht. Darüber hinaus wurden die Merkmale beleuchtet, von Musiktherapeut*innen die sich wohlfühlen, jenen die eine mäßige Zufriedenheit angaben, und jenen, die Probleme im Arbeitsalltag angaben. Diese Profile bieten Erkenntnisse zum beruflichen Wohlbefinden des Berufsstandes.This mixed methods study reports levels of work satisfaction of music therapists working in the United States. A total of 1,154 board-certified music therapists completed a 28-question survey focused on their workplace, work, and professional development experiences, along with their levels of stress, burnout, and happiness. Two open-ended questions asked respondents to reflect on their identities as music therapists. Composite work satisfaction scores were subsequently divided into quartiles, characterizing high, moderate, and low work satisfaction groups. Music therapists reporting high work satisfaction indicated significantly higher levels of positive agreement with questions regarding work satisfaction than did music therapists reporting moderate or low work satisfaction. Work satisfaction was also significantly associated with stress, burnout, and happiness. The profiles of music therapists reporting high, moderate, and low work satisfaction were further connected to their identities as music therapists, illuminating the characteristics of music therapists who are thriving, those who are moderately satisfied at work, and those who are struggling. These profiles provide insights into the occupational wellbeing of the profession
Recounting a Dream about Music, Language and Submitting an Abstract for Voices
No full textHi Mike .... I had the idea yesterday to submit some of my music pieces as part of an abstract submission to "Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy to explore the topic of language and power in music therapy. " posted yesterday.
These are the starting lines of the abstract. The entire submission can be found in the PDF which includes the entire abstract-submission and review process. This submission is in two parts. The first part is the original abstract which was considered as a complete submission. Part 1 contains a proactive engagement with The disembodied voice of Mike Barrett. The second part is the dialogue between the reviewer, lead author, and editors during the review process
From Nowhere to Somewhere: Creating to Join Conversations on Music, Inclusion, and "Jargonalisationism"
No full textIn August 2020, two colleagues and I began an ongoing conversation on music, consent, power, language/jargon, accessibility, and inclusivity. We are not music therapists, but each of us, from our own professional and personal perspectives, is interested in the therapeutic nature of music. One colleague is a community musician in Glasgow, Scotland. She works for Good Vibrations and the Resonate Project which facilitate inclusive musical workshops and experiences. The other colleague is an amateur musician, participant advisor for one of her music groups, and a representative of people with additional support needs. I am an ethnomusicologist who specializes in Javanese and Balinese gamelan outside of Indonesia particularly as they pertain to community music making. We met through playing gamelan and through the Resonate workshops. Our conversations were a doorway for each of us into community music, musical academia, and the musical life of a woman with special needs. In our conversations, the question of accessibility as it is tied to language and power arose several times. In April 2021, we offered an edited video presentation of our conversations at the 2021 Mid- Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) virtual conference. In fall 2021, we hosted an event in collaboration with Good Vibrations at which we used our MACSEM video to facilitate an open conversation among academics, community musicians, music therapists, people with additional support needs, and members of the general public. One goal of this work is to provide unheard voices a place to speak. Our submission to Voices is a video reflection on our experiences beginning with our three-person, off-the-cuff conversations that originated over a year ago. Through this video, we will (literally) share our voices with your readership as we discuss our experiences of language, power, and whose voices are heard. We also reflect back on previous conversations by including our collaborative editing of the video itself. During our overall discussions, we came up with the title, “From nowhere to somewhere: Creating to Join a conversation.” This really helped focus our shared idea of what this is all about: three people from different life experiences and opportunities finding ways of speaking together and creating a format to have a voice in this arena.
Ted Ficken: Music of Hate, Music for Healing: Paired Stories from the Hate Music Industry and the Profession of Music Therapy
No full textThis is a book review of Music of Hate, Music For Healing: Paired Stories from the Hate Music Industry and the Profession of Music Therapy by Ted Ficken published by Luminare Press in 2020.
Varieties of Pennsylvania Dutch: Postvernacular or Not so Simple?
No full textSome language communities continue identifying with their heritage language even after a shift to the majority language has occurred. In this paper I use a comparative approach to investigate the extent to which this postvernacular phase can be found among the broad spectrum of Pennsylvania Dutch-affiliated groups in North America. The results of a sociolinguistic survey presented here reveal that vastly different relationships to and experiences with the language and its affiliated cultures exist under the Pennsylvania Dutch umbrella. The postvernacular framework effectively describes the status of the language among the non-sectarians. However, with some exceptions, it cannot account for the extremely diverse scenarios existing among the sectarians (i.e., separatists). A better understanding of each of the relevant linguistic and cultural aspects at play here will have cross-linguistic implications for how languages are bound to human identities
Newspaper advertisements as an indicator of verticalization: A case study of the Eureka Post
No full textComparing advertisements published in both the English and German versions of the Eureka Post, a newspaper from Eureka, South Dakota, this study explores one avenue of potential language shift under the verticalization model and aims to gauge external influences on this one particular community-controlled institution. By assessing advertising language in two parallel publications, external and internal community influences should be visible over time. If external factors are attributing to a shift of the print language from the community-dominant language (which is non-dominant in broader society) to the dominant language, this should be evidenced in an increase of advertisements in the non-dominant community language. However, the results indicate that at a time where verticalization processes are changing the publishing landscape in other areas of the Midwest, in Eureka, South Dakota, the opposite appears to be true. The community-dominant language, German, sees an increase in advertisements published in German and a decrease in those published in English
AI-based Law Enforcement Online: The Impact of the European Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA)
Get PDFThe article addresses provisions of the AIA affecting law enforcement authorities (‘LEA’), particularly the implications on crime prevention and investigation online. The analysis demonstrates that online, LE officers have fewer means for meaningful presence and intervention against crime than in the physical domain. This calls for a nuanced approach in the regulation of LEAs’ use of AI, to ensure that the AIA does not impede LE online. The proposal by IMCO/LIBE of the European Parliament, for a blanket prohibition against predictive policing thus seems too sweeping. The analysis further criticises that the restriction on LE use of biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces is not applicable to publicly accessible spaces online. It concludes that the provisions relevant to LE need improvement to ensure legal certainty and that needs for effective LE online are catered for
‘Love is in the Air’ Exploring recruitment into prostitution by abuse of a position of vulnerability as human trafficking
Get PDFThe crime of human trafficking is intended to encompass activities such as recruitment by abusing a position of vulnerability for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Recruiting a young person into prostitution by ‘lover boy’ tactics can thus fall within the definition of human trafficking, a conviction that carries with it severe penalties. Several countries have seen a number of such convictions, including domestic cases not involv ing cross-border trafficking. Though there are Swedish convictions for recruitment into prostitution through abuse of emotional bonds in cross-border cases, a review of Swedish judgments shows that recruitment through such abuse in national cases is generally prosecuted as procuring (prostitution) – not as human trafficking.Since 2004, there have been only three Swedish prosecutions, and no convictions, for domestic human trafficking. The article argues that recruitment into prostitution by abuse of emotional bonds qualifies as abuse of a position of vulnerability – one of the elements of the crime of human trafficking. Thus, it is possible – even an international obligation – to prosecute national cases where there is recruitment into prostitution by abuse of emotional bonds as domestic trafficking. Prosecuting as human traffickingwould be in line with what the drafters of the 2000 global human trafficking treaty intended: to encompass all the subtle means by which persons are recruited for the purpose of exploitation. This should also apply to nationals
Marlowe and Prayer: : The Forgotten Sources of the Mighty Line
Get PDFThis article argues that Marlowe\u27s persuasive dramatic poetry, the admired but also ridiculed “mighty line,” is closely related to Marlowe\u27s theological training in general and to prayer in particular. The conventions of sincere prayer alluded to in the Good Angel’s line to Faustus in II.i.16 seem deliberately to be pitted against the friars’ traditional or “Catholic,” prayer-like incantation to expell him. Why there has been little focus on this aspect of Marlowe’s grounding in biblical style is hard to tell, especially when there has been such interest in contemporary theological issues in general. This may be so because of Marlowe’s preference for daring topics and because of his reputation as a “reckless” young man about town and a figure associated more readily with the spectacular accusations launched by Robert Greene or John Baines, than with his years of study in theology and related subjects at Corpus Christi in Cambridge
Being Together in Music: Thoughts From a Philosophy Cafe Dialogue
No full textIn diesem Beitrag werden Fragen, die sich aus den Musiktherapiesitzungen mit einem Jugendlichen mit schwerer Mehrfachbehinderung ergeben haben geteilt, und mit Personen diskutiert, die nicht direkt in den Fall involviert waren. In den ersten Sitzungen mit diesem Klienten fragte ich mich: "Wie kann ich mit diesem Klienten Musik machen?" Intuitiv spürte ich, dass sich diese Frage nicht auf die dyadische Beziehung zwischen dem Klienten und mir als Therapeutin beschränkte, sondern vielmehr in Zusammenhang stand, mit der größeren sozialen Struktur und den verschiedenen Werten und Beziehungen innerhalb dieser Struktur. Um diese Frage mit denjenigen zu teilen, die nicht direkt in den Fall involviert waren, organisierte ich eine kleine Veranstaltung nach der Methode des Philosophy Café. Dabei konnten die Teilnehmenden die unterschiedlichen Ansichten der Anderen kennen lernen und gemeinsam neue Standpunkte entdecken, so, dass sie sich ein gemeinsames Bild machen konnten. Dies könnte als Beispiel dafür dienen, wie sich die klinische Musiktherapiepraxis mit der sie umgebenden Gemeinschaft verbinden und gesellschaftlich verknüpfen kann. Ein solcher Dialog ermöglicht auch eine sorgfältige Prüfung der, im Bereich der Musiktherapie, verwendeten Begriffe und Konzepte. Dies könnte zu einer Überprüfung der Verwendung dieser Begriffe und Konzepte führen, die aus einer modernen, westlich geprägten Perspektive heraus entwickelt wurden.In this paper shares and discusses questions that arose from music therapy sessions with an adolescent with severe multiple disabilities, with people not directly involved in the case. In the early sessions with this client, I wondered, “How can I make music with this client?” I intuitively felt that this question was not confined to the dyadic relationship between the client and myself as therapist, but was connected to the larger social structure and the various values and relationships within it. To share this question with those not directly involved in the case, I organized a small dialogue event using the Philosophy Cafe method. Through this, participants got a taste of each other\u27s differing views and discovered new viewpoints together, thus enabling them to create a shared image of the word. This could serve as an example of how clinical music therapy practice can connect with the community surrounding it, and open up the case to society. Such dialogue also enables careful examination of the words and concepts used in the field of music therapy. This could lead to a review of the use of these words and concepts which had been developed from a modern, Western-centric perspective