Main Issue, Vol. 3, No. 3.

Editorial

Brynjulf Stige:

What Could Music Therapy Be?

In the opening of her book The Mythic Artery. The Magic of Music Therapy, Carolyn Kenny (1982) describes vividly how challenging the question "what is music therapy?" may be, and how...

Essay

Bernhard Muriithi Kigunda:

Music Therapy: A Therapeutic Force Remains Anonymous in Kenya

In Kenya, discussing music therapy must bring in an idea of traditional ritual healing processes - and this suggests confusion between the traditional ritual healing...

Essay

Colin Andrew Lee:

Reflections on Working with a String Quartet in Aesthetic Music Therapy

Aesthetic Music Therapy (AeMT) is a music centred approach to clinical practice. This essay describes the beginning experiences of sessions with a professional string quartet...

Essay

Katrina McFerran-Skewes:

Contemplating the Nature of Adolescent Group Improvisations

The roles of pulse and rhythm feature prominently in many adolescent group improvisations and I would like to propose that they are often more audibly present than other elements such as melody and harmony...

Essay

Melanie Voigt:

Orff Music Therapy: An Overview

This article provides a brief introduction to Orff Music Therapy, an approach to music therapy developed in Germany by Gertrud Orff at the Kinderzentrum München in Munich, Germany. It has been used as a therapy with children with developmental delays and disabilities for over thirty years...

Report

Cristiane Ferraz:

A Personal Experience in the Process of Implementing Music Therapy in a Hospital in Brazil

It seems to me that when music therapy enters a general hospital environment, it encourages the contribution of music medicine, medical music therapy and music psychotherapy. Each medical department, each patient, each situation is unique and requires a...

Report

Satomi Kondo:

My Vision in Teaching at Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Japan

Another characteristic of the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido is its vision of Total Care Treatment to pursue an integration of medical and social support network. I would like to call it "iryo to fukushi ni okeru inochi no rire," which means "to mindfully carry the life between the medical and social support network." ...

International Archives

Sue Baines:

A Consumer-Directed and Partnered Community Mental Health Music Therapy Program: Program Development and Evaluation

...as mental health care continues to move out of institutions and into the community, an emphasis on prevention and health promotion, accountability, and consumer involvement have been identified as fundamental. Currently, most community mental health programs remain grounded in the medical/psychiatric model...