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- Spiro, Neta, et al.
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Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network
- 2023
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Ingår i: Music & Science. - : SAGE Publications. - 2059-2043. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we report on the inaugural meetings of the Musical Care International Network held online in 2022. The term “musical care” is defined by Spiro and Sanfilippo (2022) as “the role of music—music listening as well as music-making—in supporting any aspect of people's developmental or health needs” (pp. 2–3). Musical care takes varied forms in different cultural contexts and involves people from different disciplines and areas of expertise. Therefore, the Musical Care International Network takes an interdisciplinary and international approach and aims to better reflect the disciplinary, geographic, and cultural diversity relevant to musical care. Forty-two delegates participated in 5 inaugural meetings over 2 days, representing 24 countries and numerous disciplines and areas of practice. Based on the meetings, the aims of this paper are to (1) better understand the diverse practices, applications, contexts, and impacts of musical care around the globe and (2) introduce the Musical Care International Network. Transcriptions of the recordings, alongside notes taken by the hosts, were used to summarise the conversations. The discussions developed ideas in three areas: (a) musical care as context-dependent and social, (b) musical care's position within the broader research and practice context, and (c) debates about the impact of and evidence for musical care. We can conclude that musical care refers to context-dependent and social phenomena. The term musical care was seen as useful in talking across boundaries while not minimizing individual disciplinary and professional expertise. The use of the term was seen to help balance the importance and place of multiple disciplines, with a role to play in the development of a collective identity. This collective identity was seen as important in advocacy and in helping to shape policy. The paper closes with proposed future directions for the network and its emerging mission statement.
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- Ullsten, Alexandra, 1967-, et al.
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“The rocky horror NICU show” - challenges and potentials of disturbances in neonatal music therapy : A forum theatre workshop
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Disturbances, interruptions, and inconveniences are part of everyday work in the music therapist’s practice in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and other hospital settings. Infants or parents are asleep, parents are busy breastfeeding, infants suffer from pain or painful procedures and staff comes and goes. Alarms are abruptly going off, CPAP machines and devices intended for respiratory support are hissing and buzzing, and sometimes even rounds seem to be more important than family and patient needs.These are well-known distracting situations a neonatal music therapist must relate to in her/his treatments with vulnerable and sick infants and their caregivers. Other disruptions are, however, both beneficial and welcome. Parents sing along in the music, staff and students stay to observe, siblings determine the songs, the head of the department comes by. These “disturbances” may create favourable circumstances for the music therapy service and the music therapist. Our workshop performs four challenging everyday music therapy scenarios that music therapists from all sorts of clinical settings will recognize and which require different strategies, skills, and tools to manage. We will act out the unresolved disturbances, dilemmas, and possibilities. Instead of delivering premade solutions, we engage the audience to suggest and explore creative and therapeutically meaningful solutions to the various disruptions. Based on the principles of forum theatre developed by Augusto Boal, our workshop takes an interactive and participatory format such that the knowledge, aspirations, and capacities of the workshop participants may be brought to bear on the exploration of viable solutions on the stage. After observing the separate scenarios, the first time, the play is performed again, and invites the workshop audience to stop the play at any point, replace a character whose experience they may understand, and attempt to change the course of dramatic action. In our workshop, spectators are transformed into “spect-actors”, not only observing but acting to change the challenging situations they are presented. We aim to empower the workshop participants and facilitate spontaneity and creativity, collaboration, listening and awareness, communication, effective interaction, confidence and capacity, information and education, problem-solving and community development. Thereby we aim to widen our horizon of therapeutic responsiveness from the macro level of environmental circumstances to the micro-level of the tiniest patient signs.
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