Main Issue, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Editorial

Carolyn Kenny:

A World of Full of Voices

For several hundred years now, the primary research method in anthropology has been ethnography. One does not see many experimental studies that use randomized clinical trials in the study of culture. And there is a very practical reason for this. Culture is far too complex to control variables.

Clinical Paper

Claudia Regina de Oliveira Zanini:

Therapeutic Choir - A Music Therapist Looks at the New Millenium Elderly

This paper is the result of qualitative Music Therapy research in Gerontology. It introduces a new concept, – the therapeutic choir – a therapeutic activity conducted by music therapists for the elderly.

Story

Jennifer Nicol:

Me Making Music, Music Making Me: Unexpected Travels in Music and Music Therapy

Personal stories illuminate the particular while also hinting at the universal in its many variations. I offer my story because of its very ordinary and everyday nature. The particulars of this version evolved through reflection and conceptualization, that is, recalling personal anecdotes of lived experience and lived meaning as well as situating them in theory.

Report

Eun Young Hwang & Se Yeon Park:

A Decade of Music Therapy in Korea: An Analysis of Korean Graduate Research from 1997 to 2005

The purpose of this study was to investigate the trends of research in music therapy through the analysis of studies from 1997 to 2005, and to make some directions for the future development of music therapy research in Korea.

Report

Kate Williams:

Action Inquiry Into the Use of Standardized Evaluation Tools for Music Therapy

Sing & Grow is an early intervention music therapy project that provides community group music therapy programs to families with young children who encounter risk factors that may impact on parenting and optimal child development.

Report

Rahmi Oruc Guvenc:

Tümata

The musical healing and movement therapy tradition, which uses ethnomusical elements within the environment of modern medical science, has an important place in Turkish history and culture.

Interview

Michael McGuire interviewed by Sumathy Sundar:

How to Introduce Standards for Competent Music Therapy, Education and Training in Countries where Music Therapy is in an Early Stage of Development

It is very important that instead of merely copying western music therapy concepts, competencies should be developed for education and training programs suitable to the culturally sensitive approaches, techniques or methods adopted in various unique clinical situations in a particular country. This interview with Dr. McGuire is an attempt to get an expert opinion on Music Therapy Competencies and certain issues underlying a framework for establishing standards in countries where music therapy is just evolving

International Archives

Josée Prefontaine:

On Becoming a Music Therapist

This article succinctly presents general concepts of learning and outlines salient characteristics of learning in the field of music therapy. The relationship between training in music therapy and becoming a music therapist is highlighted