Pub Date : 2022-11-19DOI: 10.1177/13594575221137778
F. Myerscough
This article grew from a consideration of perceived visibility; specifically how this might play a role in experiences of minoritisation. In this article, I reflect on the concepts of (in)visibility and (in)audibility, together with critical theories of bodymind literacy and Barthes’s theory of the grain of the voice to consider what fresh perspectives these might offer to music therapy. Examples are drawn from clinical work and my personal lived experience as a nonbinary, trans, White, disabled person, to demonstrate how these concepts can be applied together in the context of music therapy work. Links are made with contemporary politics and popular culture to situate the implications for music therapy within a broader context, and to acknowledge some of the experiences nonbinary, trans and disabled people might carry to therapy sessions with them. I conclude with reflections questioning who Music Therapists are willing to listen to, suggesting the use of different conceptual lenses to support inclusive practice relating to music therapy process and experience, and noting the potential relevance to discussions around therapist self-disclosure, especially implicit disclosure.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1177/13594575221129353
Donald Wetherick
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Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.1177/13594575221120347
Rachel Darnley-Smith
I am writing this review during the heatwave of summer of 2022, at a time when as a White European cisgendered financially secure gay woman, it has become impossible to ignore the links between the causes of climate change, racism, war, disease, sexual violence, the price of oil, monetary inflation, hunger, climate and global injustice. The facts of this matter have created a sense of urgency to do something that is on a different scale to previous political activism I have been drawn to. The modern expression ‘woke’ as originating in ‘woke up’ could not be more apt. But who is it that needs to wake up? The recent report of a survey compiled by members of the British Association of Music Therapy (BAMT) provides an invaluable snapshot of the music therapy profession in the United Kingdom during 2020 (Langford et al., 2020). The demographic information collated shows the profession as largely made up of White individuals (86%) trained in classical music (87%), who received private paid for music lessons (91.16%) and were not first-generation graduates (59.53%). The observation that the profession has historically been represented by White classical musicians and that this continues to be the case should come as no surprise to anyone currently living in the United Kingdom. The cost of this intersection of Whiteness, economic security, together with the dominance of Western classical music, means that for any number of reasons, in recent decades it is likely that the profession has lost a wide range of diverse knowledge, skills and experience beyond White culture, even before potential therapists are accepted on to a training. The problem with this state of affairs is the problem with any dominant culture, professional or otherwise; that is the tendency for insiders to stay comfortably within and to perpetuate its value systems, generally to believe its truths, and to hide from any notion of power or privilege. The impact of this tendency upon practice has begun to be challenged widely over the past two decades, and in recent years especially in music therapy literature published in North America therapy by therapists of colour. However, it must be acknowledged that change towards a widespread consciousness and acknowledgement of the impact of colour and class privilege upon the directions our profession have taken, and who this concerns, has been slow (Coombes and Tsiris, 2020; Gipson et al., 2020; Langford et al., 2020; Norris, 2020a, 2020b; Sajnani et al., 2017; Silveira, 2020; Webb, 2019). Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies is a timely exploration of clinical practice and practitioners that directly addresses many of these issues and it is theoretically well informed and reflexive at every turn. The notion of intersectionality is taken from many varied sources, as Editors Jessica Collier and Corrina Eastwood write, ‘the primary concerns. . . were born of activism, and social justice work prompted by social inequalities’ (p. 21). The te
我是在2022年夏天的热浪中写这篇评论的，当时，作为一名经济上有保障的欧洲白人变性同性恋女性，不可能忽视气候变化、种族主义、战争、疾病、性暴力、石油价格、货币通胀、饥饿、气候和全球不公正等原因之间的联系。这件事的事实让我产生了一种紧迫感，需要做一些不同于以往吸引我的政治行动主义的事情。现代表达“woke”源于“woke up”再合适不过了。但到底是谁需要醒来呢?英国音乐治疗协会(BAMT)成员最近编写的一份调查报告提供了2020年英国音乐治疗行业的宝贵快照(Langford et al.， 2020)。整理的人口统计信息显示，该行业主要由白人(86%)组成，他们接受过古典音乐培训(87%)，接受过私人付费音乐课程(91.16%)，不是第一代毕业生(59.53%)。历史上，这个行业一直由白人古典音乐家代表，而且这种情况将继续下去，这对目前居住在英国的任何人来说都不足为奇。白人身份、经济保障以及西方古典音乐的主导地位交织在一起的代价意味着，由于种种原因，近几十年来，这个行业很可能在潜在的治疗师被接受培训之前，就已经失去了大量白人文化之外的各种知识、技能和经验。这种状况的问题是任何主流文化的问题，无论是专业文化还是其他文化;这是内部人士的一种倾向，他们舒适地呆在其价值体系内，并使其永久化，通常相信其真理，并躲避任何权力或特权的概念。在过去的二十年里，这种倾向对实践的影响已经开始受到广泛的挑战，尤其是近年来，在北美出版的有色人种治疗师的音乐治疗文献中。然而，必须承认的是，对肤色和阶级特权对我们职业发展方向的影响的广泛意识和承认的变化是缓慢的，这与谁有关(库姆斯和Tsiris, 2020;吉普森等人，2020;Langford et al.， 2020;诺里斯，2020a, 2020b;Sajnani et al.， 2017;问题,2020;韦伯,2019)。心理治疗中的交叉性是对临床实践和从业者的及时探索，直接解决了许多这些问题，从理论上讲，它在每一个转折点都是充分了解和反思的。交叉性的概念来自于许多不同的来源，正如编辑杰西卡·科利尔和科里纳·伊斯特伍德所写的那样，“主要关注的是……是由社会不平等引发的激进主义和社会正义工作而诞生的”(第21页)。这个词最早出现在律师、学者和黑人女权主义作家金伯利·克伦肖1989年发表的一篇著名文章中。克伦肖(1989)使用判例法历史来证明黑人妇女是如何被隐形的，“理论上被抹去”的，在这种情况下，支持和反对反歧视的论点要么基于性别，要么基于种族，而不是两者都基于。在充分认识到克伦肖的贡献的同时，科利尔和伊斯特伍德也强调了“作为批判性探究的交叉性”与“来自基层政治的交叉性实践”之间的距离(第23页)。他们写道,
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1177/13594575221119134
Cerrita Smith
Coombes E and Tsiris G (2020) Adapting to change, welcoming otherness. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy 12(2): 167–168. Crenshaw K (1989) Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989: 8. Fricker M (2007) Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gipson L, Williams B and Norris M (2020) Three black women’s reflections on COVID-19 and creative arts therapies. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy 20(2): 31153. Langford A, Rikallah M and Maddocks C (2020) BAMT diversity report. BAFM therapy. Available at: https://www.bamt.org/resources/ diversity-report Norris M (2020a) A call for radical imagining: exploring anti-blackness in the music therapy profession. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy 20(3): 3167. Norris M (2020b) Freedom dreams: what must die in music therapy to preserve human dignity? Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy 20(3): 3172. Sajnani N, Marxen E and Zarate R (2017) Critical perspectives in the arts therapies: Response/ability across a continuum of practice. The Arts in Psychotherapy 54: 28–37. Silveira TM (2020) ‘But where are you really from?’ Approaching music therapy research and practice as an Australian of Indian Origin. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy 20(3): 8. Webb AA (2019) The Full Has Never Been Told: An Arts-based Narrative Inquiry into the Academic and Professional Experiences of Black People in American Music Therapy (Publication Number ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019. 13862525.). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/openview/d9732c46548bfac4be9a087d13f15b3e/1.pdf?pq-orig site=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1177/13594575221119569
Joe Smith-Sands
This article investigates Music Therapists’ experience and understanding of UK Drill. As a recently emerged sub-genre of Rap, its graphic lyrics have been linked to increases in gang activity and violent crime in the United Kingdom, while simultaneously voicing the experiences of marginalised black, working-class people. This has fuelled wider debate around censorship and diversity, tensions within which are explored in this article in a review of the literature on Rap and music therapy. The review suggests that while the therapeutic use of UK Drill may be contraindicated, to exclude the genre from music therapy is problematic from a socio-political perspective. This debate is then explored through semi-structured interviews with two white Music Therapists with experience of working with young people who want to use UK Drill in their music therapy sessions. Data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three themes are discussed: research participants’ descriptions of their perception of the therapeutic components of UK Drill, their perspectives on the psychosocial context of UK Drill and their negotiating questions of identity when working with UK Drill. Findings suggested a complex role for UK Drill in music therapy. While the ethical and clinical necessity of not excluding UK Drill from sessions was established, so were a number of challenges posed for Music Therapists looking to integrate it into their practice. Research participants were also found to be emotionally desensitised to UK Drill’s graphic lyrics. This is argued to represent an underlying anxiety towards UK Drill’s intense emotional expression, which was further suggested by the absence of open consideration towards clients’ racial identities. The findings are considered in the context of wider diversity issues within the profession. They also signal the need for a more socially cognisant music therapy practice, with greater open consideration paid towards the client’s racial identity by white Music Therapists.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1177/13594575221117968
Elide Scarlata, M. Baroni, Filippo Giordano
The COVID-19 pandemic meant that people’s lives and work changed significantly across the world. Governments took measures such as social distancing, lockdowns and quarantine protocols to stem the spread of the pandemic. This had a significant impact on music therapy clinical practice, generating reflections and adaptations among the worldwide music therapy community, with several studies still underway. A number of professional music therapy organisations have explored methods for carrying out remote interventions. MusicTeamCare is an approach developed by three Italian Certified Music Therapists that could offer access to support in emergency and crisis situations. This approach is rooted in receptive music therapy theory, with particular reference to Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). MusicTeamCare was used for the first time in March to April 2020, with healthcare workers in Italy who were treating COVID-19 patients. This article outlines theoretical framework, development and evaluation phases of MusicTeamCare. Detailed explanations are given of the theoretical framework, methods of musical analysis, assessment and evaluation strategies, criteria for constructing the playlists and interactive triangulation between the Music Therapists in the research team.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.1177/13594575221110193
E. Coutinho, T. van Criekinge, Gregory Hanford, R. Nathan, M. Maden, R. Hill
Music therapy (MT) has been used to support people with a variety of eating disorders (EDs), but it is unclear whether there is sufficient and robust evidence from controlled experimental studies. In this article, we report the results of a systematic review that summarises the evidence from published controlled studies where MT has been used to treat people diagnosed with any type of ED. Our results demonstrate that robust evidence concerning the effectiveness of MT for the treatment of EDs is severely lacking. Nonetheless, the evidence described in this paper warrants further investigation especially given that new treatment strategies for EDs are urgently needed. To this end, we offer a set of recommendations for future high-quality experimental studies that can inform the development of effective MT interventions and support for people with EDs.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1177/13594575221103501
B. Dowson
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Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1177/13594575221090182
H. Davies
Neurodiversity (the idea that autism is a natural part of human diversity) is a concept that is only just beginning to be explored in music therapy research. The idea of neurodiversity can be viewed as an important part of the emerging discourse around diversity and social justice in British music therapy, with a potentially radical influence on both music therapy practice and the way in which autistic clients and colleagues are viewed. This article, written from the ‘insider perspective’ of an autistic Music Therapist, explores the origins of the concept of neurodiversity, the emerging strand of music therapy research concerning neurodiversity, the re-framing of autistic characteristics such as stimming within the concept of autistic culture, and the potential influence on music therapy practice and discourse of a wider paradigm shift towards the neurodiversity paradigm. These topics are considered within a social justice context, situating autistic / neurodivergent people as a minoritized identity within society and examining the potential influence of power dynamics, unconscious bias and privilege within the therapeutic relationship. The characteristics of a neurodiversity-affirmative style of music therapy are considered, and a need is identified for more music therapy research in order to elucidate this way of working.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1177/13594575221090180
T. Roman
This article is a critical reflection on the development of a research approach to explore therapeutic relationships in psychodynamic music therapy with children and young people with complex needs. The article starts by positioning my research project within contemporary music therapy discourse, discussing literature from psychoanalysis, music therapy research and a broad range of related disciplines. This illustrates the development of a socially, culturally and politically contextualised understanding of the theory and practice of music therapy with people with complex needs and outlines the theoretical concepts which support and inform my research approach. Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice paradigm is used to provide a contextualised philosophical concept to explore why and how people with complex needs are frequently excluded from academic research. A critical disability study perspective is used to outline the need for inclusive research practice to develop epistemological frameworks and methodologies to include the voices of those marginalised in society. The article concludes with an outline of my current research project, discussing how the ideas previously described have informed the research approach and been integrated into the project design.
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