Across music disciplines, authenticity has been referred to in various ways. Within therapy and teaching, only sparsely it discussed focusing on the intrapersonal aspects of authenticity. This study seeks explore understand as experienced expressed by three professionals practicing within areas therapy, performance, goal being primarily deepen, enrich, experience possibly benefit their clients,...

Music is part of everyday life, and is generally regarded as therapeutic. There is increasing interdisciplinary interest in innate human musicality and the link between music and the emotions. Innate musicality is evident in the dynamic forms of emotional expression that both regulate and cultivate the foundations of meaning in human communication (intersubjectivity). This article discusses mus...

Experience has shown that therapy using music for therapeutic purposes has certain effects on neuropsychiatric disorders (both functional and organic disorders). However, the mechanisms of action underlying music therapy remain unknown, and scientific clarification has not advanced. While that study disproved the Mozart effect, the effects of music on the human body and mind were not disproved....

There is a need to develop an outcome measure specific to music therapy in dementia that reflects a holistic picture of the therapy process and outcome. This study aimed to develop a clinically relevant and scientifically robust music therapy outcome measure incorporating the values and views of people with dementia. Focus groups and interviews were conducted to obtain qualitative data on what ...

We breathed a sigh of relief when we read Ms. Cameron's Jetter to the editor (October 1992 AJOT, p. 955) responding to the article "Should Music Be Used Therapeutically in Occupational Therapy'" (March 1992 AJOT, pp. 275-277). A number of us (music therapists) who work side by side with occupational therapists were concerned regarding the general direction of the original article, which indicat...

OBJECTIVES Agitation in nursing home residents with dementia leads to increase in psychotropic medication, decrease in quality of life, and to patient distress and caregiver burden. Music therapy has previously been found effective in treatment of agitation in dementia care but studies have been methodologically insufficient. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of individual music t...

BACKGROUND The literature supporting the use of music therapy in palliative care is growing. However, the number of quantitative research studies investigating the use of music therapy in palliative care, and specifically anxiety, is limited. OBJECTIVE The aim of this research project was to examine the effectiveness of a single music therapy session in reducing anxiety for terminally ill pat...