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Response to Lehtonen's "Some Ideas About Music Therapy for the Elderly"

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:43:57 +0000

I read this article, interested in the authors work with the elderly using music therapy. I have recently begun my first year internship at a nursing home in south Boston and have become very interested in this population. An issue that the author brings up in this text is the use of music to evoke memories.

Response to "Internalization vs. Globalization"

John Lawrence — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Thank-you for your article concerning Internalization vs. Globalization. We, as North American (aka Western Music & Tonality) centric therapists, have a lot to learn about our fellow practitioners in Asian countries and India.

Response to “Aesthetic Experience and Transformation in Music Therapy”

Rachelle Norman — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

In Tsiris’s 2008 article “Aesthetic Experience and Transformation in Music Therapy,” the author discussed Aigen’s idea that aesthetic experiences in music therapy give rise to the processes of transformation that lead to success in music therapy. Reviewing the work of thinkers in aesthetics, humanistic psychology, and music-centered music therapy, Tsiris concluded that aesthetic experience and the transformation it enables are central to successful music therapy.

Response to "Building the First MT Programme.."

Trenton Barrick — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

In "Building the First Music Therapy Programme ... A Reflection on New Music Therapy in New Place," Ludwika Konieczna reports the experience of her first job as a music therapist. She explains the challenge of beginning a new music therapy program to an area where the words "music therapy" have never been spoken. She describes her work in a facility previously foreign to music therapy and discusses the dangers and benefits of being her own boss.

Response to “First Love...”

Sarah Vick — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

I found this article very interesting. It made me

Response to “so music Therapist…. How good is your juggling?”

Tara Whitworth — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

In her article the author Sarah Hoskyns talks about all the million and one things that a person has to handle at one time in everyday life. She also addresses how every music therapy student has their strength and weakness that help or hinder their abilities to be a music therapist. This article was what I really needed to read.

In response to “Music Therapy in Kenya”

Katelyn Stephens — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

In the fall 2003 I had the opportunity to visit Nairobi Kenya for two and a half weeks with a music group that I was touring with. During our two weeks there, we traveled around the city of Nairobi, experiencing the sights and sounds of Kenya. We were hosted by a church with a fairly large congregation whose members accompanied and guided us through the city and surrounding areas. We went into Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi and the second largest slum in Africa. We also visited a village of the Maasai tribe.

Congratulations and Comments

John Lawrence — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Dear members of the Voices forums,
First, let me congratulate you on 10 yrs of service to the music therapy community! I am constantly checking in, finding out what's new and exciting and look forward the challenging and diverse expressions of music therapy. I also admire the efforts that you had made, and are making, to represent various philosophies of practice and culturally specific articles.
With regards to the discussions, I would "second" the notion that more individuals would contribute responses.

Response to "The Last Song"

Kathy McCann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000

I was touched and inspired by the story of Yumiko Sato (2009), her work with the dying, and her story of her patient. Since 2003 when I took care of my paternal grandmother as she was dying of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, hospice care and working with the dying have been of particular interest to me. I wonder how we may take the practice of music therapy a step further and utilize it to assist more particularly with the patient's dying processes.

Response to Addressing Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in Palliative Care Through Music Therapy Practice

Kristen D. Macleod — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Lucy Forests article Addressing Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in Palliative Care Through Music Therapy Practice is an important insight for any music therapist or music therapy student who wishes to work within this population in the future. As the number of immigrants is increasing the world over the implications for music therapists are vast in this subject area.