Authors: Andrea Gilroy
ISBN-13: 9780415100458, ISBN-10: 0415100453
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Art and Music is an edited collection of sixteen pioneering case studies that are structured around the research problems common to art and music therapists. It is notoriously difficult conducting research in psychotherapy, as the scientific method preferred by academic research is not necessarily appropriate when it comes to assessing what happens in therapy. Art therapists and music therapists have traditionally worked side by side and both work in a predominantly non-verbal medium. As their respective professions grow to maturity, they have increasingly begun to develop their own research methods and tools.
The contributors to this collection examine recurring questions in various contexts and the editors draw these common themes together, enabling the reader to take a critical look at what is described within an informed context. There are many important research questions for each profession to address, but there are a variety of research methodologies available. Presenting original work in a structured way, Art and Music offers ideas and ways forward for those who are practicing therapists, considering emabarking on research projects, or who would like to know more about research possibilities in the field of art therapies.
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Introduction: juxtapositions in art therapy and music therapy research | 1 | |
1 | Researching the esoteric: art therapy research | 21 |
2 | The analysis of therapeutic improvisatory music | 35 |
3 | Music and emotion: aspects of music therapy research | 51 |
4 | Changes in art therapy groups | 66 |
5 | Starting out in music therapy process research | 85 |
6 | Research in art therapy with people who have psychotic illnesses | 101 |
7 | Making sense of marking space: researching art therapy with people who have severe learning difficulties | 117 |
8 | Observing offenders: the use of simple rating scales to assess changes in activity during group music therapy | 138 |
9 | The sound-world of speech- and language-impaired children: the story of a current music therapy research project | 152 |
10 | The effects of music therapy on a group of adults with profound learning difficulties | 164 |
11 | Research and the particular: epistemology in art and psychotherapy | 185 |
12 | 'The biter bit': subjective features of research in art and therapy | 206 |
13 | The development of art therapy in Bulgaria: infiltrating the system | 223 |
Brief bibliography of suggested reading on research | 241 | |
Name index | 244 | |
Subject index | 248 |