health psychology report • volume 8(3), review article There is preliminary evidence that music therapy plays a beneficial role for preterm infants and their primary caregivers during the neonatal period; however, available research considers mostly cohorts from North and South Americas, Australia, Israel and certain western European countries, excluding Poland. Remembering that music, and therefore music therapy, is highly culturally dependent, there is no "perfect program package" that can be directly applied across all communities to achieve desired effects everywhere. The commencement of the multi-center international randomized controlled trial, Longitudinal Study of music Therapy's Effectiveness for Premature (LongSTEP) infants and their caregivers, has provided the impetus for Polish music therapists to begin offering music therapy services in neonatal intensive care units as a part of clinical research. Since research on music therapy dedicated to premature babies and their families is only beginning to emerge in Poland, there is a call to develop a culturally and contextbased approach that can be implemented in Polish neonatal settings. The objective of this perspective article is to present recommendations for clinical practice with premature babies and their families based on available international research and practical guidelines, as well as national experiences from the LongSTEP trial that make it culturally appropriate. This paper might be of great interest to readers interested in implementing music therapy interventions with local conditions and opportunities to improve outcomes for a "real-world" impact.
Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje przebieg i rezultaty badania eksperymentalnego, którego celem było sprawdzenie, czy element muzyczny, w postaci czynnika metrorytmicznego i melodycznego, wpłynie na trafność zapamiętywania przypadkowych ciągów cyfr przez dzieci w wieku szkolnym. Biorące udział w badaniu dzieci (n=33) przypisane zostały losowo do trzech grup. Zadanie postawione przed nimi dotyczyło zapamiętania ciągu przypadkowych cyfr i odnotowania ich w odpowiedniej kolejności. Forma prezentacji informacji do zapamiętania różniła się między grupami: 1) odczyt, 2) zrytmizowany odczyt, 3) śpiew. Analiza wariancji nie wykazała istotnych statystycznie różnic między osiągnięciami grup w zakresie dekodowania podawanych treści, opis ilościowy sugeruje jednak trend na korzyść umuzycznionych form prezentacji.
The text is focused on two relatively young yet rapidly developing disciplines: psychology of music and music therapy. The goal of the article was to outline the territories of both disciplines and consider relationships between them. The text includes characteristics, presented through clarification of the subjects of both areas, attempt to place them in the general classification of sciences and considerations regarding the methodology. It also indicates important aspect of artistic component, present especially in practical music therapy, and reaching beyond scientific inquiry. The author notices difficulties of integrating activities utilizing arts with systematic, research-oriented perspective. She shows relationships between disciplines, paying attention to the significant differences, but also complementary values. She concludes that despite of being separate, psychology of music and music therapy have common grounds.
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