Music Therapy with Mexican Migrant Farmworkers: A Pilot Study

Schwantes, Melody; McKinney, Cathy H.

doi:10.1093/mtp/28.1.22

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“…Percussion music (mainly drumming) was used by four researchers (Choi et al, 2008; Schwantes and Mckinney, 2010; Erkkilä et al, 2011; Han et al, 2011). One author (Choi et al, 2008) used music based on instruments that were selected according to participant's preferences.…”

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“…For experimental groups, we counted 954 individuals ( n min = 5; n max = 116; n av = 34.07; SD = 27.78), and 856 ( n min = 10; n max = 120; n av = 30.57; SD = 29.10) for the control respectively. Although three authors (Ashida, 2000 ; Guétin et al, 2009b ; Schwantes and Mckinney, 2010 ) did not use a control sample, those articles were nevertheless considered for calculating accurate and up-to-date data. Depending on each review, sample groups differed profoundly in number of participants.…”

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“…Depending on each review, sample groups differed profoundly in number of participants. The smallest one had five participants (Schwantes and Mckinney, 2010 ), followed by three authors (Hendricks et al, 1999 ; Ashida, 2000 ; Guétin et al, 2009b ) who used between 10 and 20 individuals in their clinical trials. Medium sized groups of up to 100 participants were found in six articles (Gupta and Gupta, 2005 ; Castillo-Pérez et al, 2010 ; Erkkilä et al, 2011 ; Wang et al, 2011 ; Lu et al, 2013 ).…”

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Reviewing the Effectiveness of Music Interventions in Treating Depression

2017

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Depression is a very common mood disorder, resulting in a loss of social function, reduced quality of life and increased mortality. Music interventions have been shown to be a potential alternative for depression therapy but the number of up-to-date research literature is quite limited. We present a review of original research trials which utilize music or music therapy as intervention to treat participants with depressive symptoms. Our goal was to differentiate the impact of certain therapeutic uses of music used in the various experiments. Randomized controlled study designs were preferred but also longitudinal studies were chosen to be included. 28 studies with a total number of 1,810 participants met our inclusion criteria and were finally selected. We distinguished between passive listening to music (record from a CD or live music) (79%), and active singing, playing, or improvising with instruments (46%). Within certain boundaries of variance an analysis of similar studies was attempted. Critical parameters were for example length of trial, number of sessions, participants' age, kind of music, active or passive participation and single- or group setting. In 26 studies, a statistically significant reduction in depression levels was found over time in the experimental (music intervention) group compared to a control (n = 25) or comparison group (n = 2). In particular, elderly participants showed impressive improvements when they listened to music or participated in music therapy projects. Researchers used group settings more often than individual sessions and our results indicated a slightly better outcome for those cases. Additional questionnaires about participants confidence, self-esteem or motivation, confirmed further improvements after music treatment. Consequently, the present review offers an extensive set of comparable data, observations about the range of treatment options these papers addressed, and thus might represent a valuable aid for future projects for the use of music-based interventions to improve symptoms of depression.

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Reviewing the Effectiveness of Music Interventions in Treating Depression

2017

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“…Based on a review of music therapy literature spanning from 1966–2005, Krout (2007) concluded that the guitar's use has increased through the decades and ‘dramatically during the first decade of the 21st century’ (p. 48). Strategies for assisting clients to play the guitar include varied approaches to open tunings (Barksdale, 2003; Aigen, 2005; Meyer et al , 2010; Beer, 2011; Oden, 2014) and standard tuning (Thompson, 2009; Schwantes & McKinney, 2010; Soshensky, 2011; Oden, 2014).…”

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Guitars have disabilities: exploring guitar adaptations for an adolescent with Down syndrome

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2014

Brit. J. Music. Ed.

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The guitar has a high value in cultural capital and we are immersed in a culture in which the guitar is the predominant vehicle of music-making. Given the guitar's mass popularity, it follows that the guitar-learning community is vast and diverse. Subscribing to the social model of disability, I problematise the guitar as being disabled and conducted an instrumental case study using the ethnographic tools of video-based observation, field notes and a semi-structured interview to chronicle the experience of teaching an adolescent with Down syndrome how to play the guitar. Different approaches to enabling the guitar are examined including open-tuning, standard tuning and a modified two-string guitar. Findings discuss the importance of the guitar to the participant as a percussive and rhythmic instrument and additionally as support for singing in the context of jamming.

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“…The music therapy literature also contains examples of mixed methods studies where qualitative data were used to help interpret, clarify, and contextualize quantitative results. In a mixed methods RCT, Schwantes and McKinney (2010) implemented a music therapy program with Mexican migrant farmworkers, with objectivist outcome measures focusing on levels of depression, anxiety, and social isolation. However, they also conducted focus group interviews, which revealed important information about how the music therapist's role facilitated the development of relationships between the participants.…”

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confidence: 99%