179 research outputs found
Methods in Music Therapy
No full text3.9.1 Improvisation-Based Methods3.9.2 Songwriting3.9.3 Therapeutic Voice Work3.9.4 Receptive Method
Music therapy assessment: Theory, research, and application (Jacobsen, Waldon & Gattino, Eds.)
Full text linkThis is a review of the book "Music therapy assessment: Theory, research, and application" edited by Stine Lindahl Jacobsen, Eric G. Waldon and Gustavo Gattino.
Title: Music therapy assessment: Theory, research, and application Editors: Stine Lindahl Jacobsen, Eric G. Waldon & Gustavo Gattino Publication year: 2018 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Pages: 432 ISBN: 978178592295
Fertility or pregnancy rates for understanding the declining fertility?
No full textID: 116 / Session 4B: 1Abstract for presentationSessions: Fertility in Nordic Countries and Germany I & IIKeywords: Fertility decline, pregnancy rates, IVF, abortions, immigrationFertility or pregnancy rates for understanding the declining fertility?Lindahl-Jacobsen, Rune1; Beck, Astrid Linnea2; Rizzi, Silvia1; Holmboe, Stine Agergaard2; Skakkebæk, Niels Erik21University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; 2Department of Growth and Reproduction, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected] rates have been below the sustainability level of 2.1 children per woman in most high-income countries for decades. Meanwhile, the use of artificial reproductive techniques (ART) has increased for conceiving a child. In this study, we combine nationwide information on abortions, ART and immigration to illustrate the difference in pregnancy rates and fertility rates.We used Danish registry data on ART treatments, induced abortions and country of origin to estimate pregnancy rates and compare them to fertility rates. To include birth cohorts with not completed fertility, ART and abortion rates, these were forecasted.Our results clearly show that pregnancy rates have declined more rapidly than fertility rates and that immigration has significantly contributed to the fertility rates seen in Denmark. The forecasted fertility and pregnancy rates suggest this pattern will continue.We infer from our results that pregnancy rates may be more informative in understanding the fertility crisis on Earth and that biological factors could significantly contribute to the findings
Musictherapeutic Songwriting and Mentalization: An Examination about how Mentalization, as a Part of Emotional Identity Development, can be Understood Through the Use of Songwriting during Music Therapy with a Teenager Placed in Foster Care
No full textMentalization is a concept that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with attachment theory and cognitive theory, among others. The ability to mentalize is developed through, and dependent on, a secure attached relationship, and gives the person the capacity to view and understand both oneself and other people’s internal mental states such as emotions, needs, motives, beliefs, thoughts, etc. Mentalization gives the person the ability to distinguish between the inner and outer reality, which is in closely connected to identity through the interaction of selfreflection and interpersonal components. When a person has insecure attachment patterns, the capacity of mentalization can be diminished, and therapy for the development of the ability to mentalize may be deemed necessary in order for the person to become more confident being in the world as an independent, defined, individual. These difficulties are often seen in individuals with personality disorders, but some of the issues may also be seen during adolescence, because of the emergence of identity crisis following development from childhood to adulthood.Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to examine how mentalization, as a part of emotional identity development, can be understood through the use of Songwriting during music therapy with a teenager placed in foster care.Method: To answer the above question, a single-case study is examined in a qualitative inquiry, inspired by both a hermeneutic and phenomenological approach. The concepts of attachment, affect attunement and mentalization will be examined through theory according to the purpose of the research as well as through a review of existing literature on Songwriting. The case is defined by a Songwriting process in music therapy with a 15 year old girl, during the investigator’s internship.Data: The data in this investigation consist of the lyrics of the song, composed within a music therapy session, with the investigator as the therapist, along with selected samples of conversations from the music therapy sessions. The data material is gained from audio and video samples, and presented in the thesis text as transcriptions. These examples are analysed using a modified model of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) by Anthony Bateman & Peter Fonagy (2007) to examine levels of mentalization, and two models designed by the investigator, to explore attachment patterns and voice parameters.Results: The results of the investigation show that it is possible to analyse and achieve understanding of levels of mentalization through the use of Songwriting in music therapy, given the platform of both verbal and musical interventions. This symbiosis facilitated the possibility of emotional understanding regarding both the client herself and others, which is closely connected to mentalization abilities. The investigation confirmed that attachment is closely related to the mentalization processes and therefore enlightening for the insight of these. Furthermore, it showed that the voice can be a clarifying channel for a deeper understanding of mentalization
Therapeutic songwriting with a woman with breast cancer in end-of-life care with an existential and relational focus - a qualitative single-case study
No full textAbstract Aim: This qualitative single-case study seeks to investigate the use of therapeutic songwriting with a patient in palliative care suffering from metastatic breast cancer, from the perspective of the field of existential therapy. Furthermore, the study explores the therapeutic relationship in light of the therapeutic songwriting process. Background: This master thesis arises from a four month practice placement at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. From seeing a total of 25 individual patients in music therapy during these four months one case in particular stood out. A woman in her mid 50’s diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer whom, by the time of referral, was already in palliative care. An intense course of six music therapy sessions during a period of eight days paves the foundation of this case study. Receptive music therapy methods were used with the aim of relaxation and quality of life as well as to help manage pain. After experiencing imaging and reliving memories of nature while listening to improvised music, the idea of therapeutic songwriting was put forward. We spent the last three sessions writing a song, during one of which, a recording of the process was made. The song was finished and recorded in a studio. Two days later the patient died and the song was played at her funeral. Method: A qualitative and explorative approach based on hermeneutics is chosen for this study. The study consists of a bottom up design where recordings from a songwriting session are transcribed and analyzed through the principles of thematic coding as described by Kvale & Brinkmann (2015). Perspectives from the field of existential therapy are applied to the analysis to interpret the findings and broaden the understanding of therapeutic songwriting and the therapeutic relationship. Results: The study highlights several existential themes emerging from the therapeutic songwriting process. The most prominent findings among the existential themes are meaning (meaningfulness), sense of coherence, insight and clarification. Other themes include embodiment and finding peace. Regarding the therapeutic relationship in the songwriting process the findings include respect, engagement, shared process and guiding. Furthermore, discussing the therapeutic relationship results in a deeper understanding of the fluid boundaries of personal and emotional distance between therapist and patient. Keywords: Music therapy, therapeutic songwriting, existential therapy, therapeutic relationship, breast cancer, palliative care, end-of-life care. Abstract Aim: This qualitative single-case study seeks to investigate the use of therapeutic songwriting with a patient in palliative care suffering from metastatic breast cancer, from the perspective of the field of existential therapy. Furthermore, the study explores the therapeutic relationship in light of the therapeutic songwriting process. Background: This master thesis arises from a four month practice placement at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. From seeing a total of 25 individual patients in music therapy during these four months one case in particular stood out. A woman in her mid 50’s diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer whom, by the time of referral, was already in palliative care. An intense course of six music therapy sessions during a period of eight days paves the foundation of this case study. Receptive music therapy methods were used with the aim of relaxation and quality of life as well as to help manage pain. After experiencing imaging and reliving memories of nature while listening to improvised music, the idea of therapeutic songwriting was put forward. We spent the last three sessions writing a song, during one of which, a recording of the process was made. The song was finished and recorded in a studio. Two days later the patient died and the song was played at her funeral. Method: A qualitative and explorative approach based on hermeneutics is chosen for this study. The study consists of a bottom up design where recordings from a songwriting session are transcribed and analyzed through the principles of thematic coding as described by Kvale & Brinkmann (2015). Perspectives from the field of existential therapy are applied to the analysis to interpret the findings and broaden the understanding of therapeutic songwriting and the therapeutic relationship. Results: The study highlights several existential themes emerging from the therapeutic songwriting process. The most prominent findings among the existential themes are meaning (meaningfulness), sense of coherence, insight and clarification. Other themes include embodiment and finding peace. Regarding the therapeutic relationship in the songwriting process the findings include respect, engagement, shared process and guiding. Furthermore, discussing the therapeutic relationship results in a deeper understanding of the fluid boundaries of personal and emotional distance between therapist and patient. Keywords: Music therapy, therapeutic songwriting, existential therapy, therapeutic relationship, breast cancer, palliative care, end-of-life care. </p
Parent-child music therapy intervention with late talkers
No full textIn this work a music therapy intervention with three families of late talking children is investigated with the aim to understand how a music therapy program could empower late talkers’ parents in engaging their children to enhance their communicative and interactional skills. Three mother-child dyads participate at the program that consists in 8 weekly sessions run by a music therapist that is also a speech and language therapist, at her private practice in Verona, Italy. Children were diagnosed by local or private services prior to attend the program and an evaluation of their language and communicative skills was conducted pre to post intervention using parent’s base questionnaires. During the program improvisational and re-creative techniques were adopted to facilitate children’ communication and participation, while parents, directly involved in the program, receive a model from the therapist on how to interact with their children using a responsive style (Girolametto & Weitzman, 2002). Parents’ active participation and initiative where analysed in order to understand parent’s involvement in the program and the different patterns of interactions with the child. To understand if some form of transferability happened between the music therapy setting and the home context MEL Questionnaire (Gottfried, Thompson, 2012) was administrated pre to post intervention. A final questionnaire and a follow-up interview were conducted to understand parents’ perceptions about the program and additional elements of transferability. Findings and understanding were shaped and explored thought a hermeneutic stance that informed the way this qualitative work was conducted. Findings underline a certain degree of transferability between the two settings that could affect the way music is used with the child in the everyday context and the pattern of interaction within musical activities. Parents’ highlighted the positive effects of enhancing their responsiveness in interacting with their child and recognized in musical activities an occasion to positively interact and communicate with their children overcoming their language difficulties. Understandings gained from this preliminary study aims to open a new discussion for the music therapy field on families of late talking children
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