Blind spots in music therapy. Toward a critical notion of participation in context of children with visual impairment

Metell, Maren; Stige, Brynjulf

doi:10.1080/08098131.2015.1081265

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“…Qualitative research is often used in exploratory studies (Hammersley & Atkinson, 2007). As it is not the first time I am writing about this topic (Metell, 2011; Metell & Stige, submitted), having personal interest and pre-understanding, I need to use an approach that is reflexive (Alvesson & Sköldberg, 2000/2009). Reflexivity is a characteristic of qualitative research (Hammersley & Atkinson, 2007).…”

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“A great moment . . . because of the music”: An exploratory study on music therapy and early interaction with children with visual impairment and their sighted caregivers

Metell

2015

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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The focus of this article is on how musical interaction can contribute to bonding and early interaction. This article is based on a music therapy project in a pedagogical institution for people with visual impairment. The study is qualitative and exploratory, where children with visual impairments (aged 1–4 years) and their caregivers participated in music therapy sessions over 10 weeks. Data have been collected by participant observation, video recordings, and interviews. Moments of positive interactions in music were selected and analyzed, and the selections were triangulated by interviews with the caregivers. The data material indicates that music therapy promotes positive bonding patterns and enhances early interaction. Musical interaction facilitates elements of early interaction that can be challenging for children with visual impairments and their sighted caregivers. Both caregivers and children seemed to experience one another as a source of joyful interaction. This article discusses the findings in the broader perspective of disability studies and community music therapy and argues that music therapy promotes positive interactions and empowerment of children with visual impairment and their caregivers.

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“A great moment . . . because of the music”: An exploratory study on music therapy and early interaction with children with visual impairment and their sighted caregivers

Metell

2015

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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“…Matell (2011), who discusses the concept of participation in relation to music therapy, asserts that human beings require social participation . If this participation is denied, human beings tend to develop strategies (such as aggressive or destructive behaviour) to compensate for their isolation.…”

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“…In the context of theories from Buber, Bakhtin, Malloch and Trevarthen, I would propose that, on the one hand, there is a human capacity to communicate and share experiences (that is, to co-create), regardless of the presence of a disability, but on the other hand, we must be allowed at least the possibility of using this capacity. The human being is born to seek intersubjectivity and make cultural learning in companionship possible (Matell, 2011; Stensæth & Trondalen, 2012). In the same way, we could say that the users in RHYME seek to co-create through companionship with the close other, and that the CCTs offer a space—or a field—in which the co-creation can take place.…”

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“Musical co-creation”? Exploring health-promoting potentials on the use of musical and interactive tangibles for families with children with disabilities

Stensæth

2013

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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The point of departure in this text is the ongoing qualitative interdisciplinary research project RHYME (www.RHYME.no), which addresses the lack of health-promoting interactive and musical Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for families with children with severe disabilities. The project explores a new treatment paradigm based on collaborative, tangible, interactive net-based musical “smart things” with multimedia capabilities. The goal in RHYME is twofold: (1) to reduce isolation and passivity, and (2) to promote health and well-being. Co-creation is suggested as a possible path to achieving these goals, by evoking feelings, for example, or accommodating the needs to act and to create social relations; co-creation also motivates users to communicate and collaborate within (new) social relations. This article engages co-creation by incorporating aspects connected to interaction design and the field of music and health. Empirical observations will be referred to. The research question is as follows: What might co-creation imply for families of children with disabilities when musical and interactive tangibles are used as health-promoting implements?

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“…In this special issue of Voices, LaCom and Reed (2014) discuss the instability of disability and outline Reed's questioning of her understandings of disability as a disabled MT student. Outside this issue, there are a small number of articles, chapters, and presentations that explore or include this interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue between disability studies and MT (Gross, 2018;Hadley, 2017;Hadley & Thomas, 2018;Metell & Stige, 2015;Tsiris, 2013Tsiris, , 2018. The term PP may not be as appropriate within the context of disability studies as often disability is seen as part of identity within this literature, not as something to be fixed through being a patient.…”

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“…Intersections in Music Therapy: Music, Health, and the Person, critical thinking papers (Metell & Stige, 2015) and online training courses such as McFerran's (2018) seminar on critical thinking. Alongside this, more therapists are becoming aware of alternative models of disability to that of the predominant medical model, such as the social model of disability (Gross, 2018).…”

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Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

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<p>This PhD examined a therapist’s experience of illness/disability to see if any new light could be shed on music therapy whilst also finding ways to navigate disability as a practitioner. There has not been adequate research attention given to the experiences of music therapists who have an illness/disability. The position is often negotiated in isolation with minimal tools and resources. An arts-based autoethnography was used to determine how the close examination of one’s personal experience with illness/disability can impact on practice, how the work can be negotiated, and to uncover any new practical or theoretical meanings. Furthermore, it looked to determine what arts-based autoethnography could offer one’s practice. A poststructural lens was used that drew on social constructionism, feminism, and the work of Michel Foucault. Data generated from a music therapist’s practice, experiences of illness/disability, literature, and professional documents were analysed using Foucault’s “critical ontology of ourselves” (Foucault, 1984b, p. 47). Hidden processes of problematic ableism were found within the practice examined as well as in some educational and professional encounters. These regimes of ableism were supported by universalising and dichotomising discourses, namely humanism, western normativity, limited observable understandings of disability, and the enforcement of able/disabled divide through many binaries. The methodology provided the tools to reposition the practice to politicise disability and address ableism. Addressing ableism was found to be more complex than simply incorporating disability issues into existing contemporary frameworks. The analysis led to the development of Post-Ableist Music Therapy (PAMT). PAMT extended the relational ethic beyond what was present in the prior practice by drawing on aspects of posthumanism, agonistic plurality, and increasing the visibility of disability studies and crip theory. Therefore, PAMT offers a different lens to the critical orientations’ apparatus: a social justice practice not based on empowerment and humanism but on agonism and posthumanism instead. As there is a lag in the theorisation of ableism, PAMT provides an alternative framework that can be applied to current approaches to increase our professional consciousness of ableism. By repositioning the practice and exploring alternative subjectivities, the professional and personal narratives of a therapist experiencing illness/disability became more integrated, working with–not against–each other in a shared activism. The methodology fostered an increased ethical care of the self; offered tools that critiqued what we are; experimented with going beyond the limits imposed on us. The use of such tools could have wider application in the everyday practices of therapists. The findings have significant implications for practice and training, as the challenges people and societies face cannot be adequately dealt with without tools to explicitly uncover and address normalisation and ableism.</p>

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Blind spots in music therapy. Toward a critical notion of participation in context of children with visual impairment

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

“A great moment . . . because of the music”: An exploratory study on music therapy and early interaction with children with visual impairment and their sighted caregivers

“A great moment . . . because of the music”: An exploratory study on music therapy and early interaction with children with visual impairment and their sighted caregivers

“Musical co-creation”? Exploring health-promoting potentials on the use of musical and interactive tangibles for families with children with disabilities

Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

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