Le Plus nous sommes ensemble, nous sommes plus heureux: Music Pair dans le traitement de la santé mentale au Zimbabwe

Auteurs-es

  • Jeffrey Robert Angell
  • Ruth Verhey The Friendship Bench Project

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v15i3.837

Mots-clés :

Zimbabwe, en Afrique

Résumé

Ruth Verhey est un psychologue clinicien impliqué dans le développement et l'exécution du Banc d'amitié, un initiative basée sur groupe globale de soins de santé mentale à Harare, au Zimbabwe. En 2013, elle a invité Jeffrey Angell, un musicothérapeute de New York, afin de faciliter l'un des groupes de soutien Zeebag hebdomadaires à l'hôpital de Harare. Le groupe Zeebag est composé de huit femmes qui souffrent de dépression. L'essai fournit des premiers comptes de personne de Jeffrey de cette expérience, ainsi que décrire la musique, le processus de la musique, et comment ceux-ci intergré dans le modèle d'autonomisation par les pairs du Banc Amitié.

Bibliographies de l'auteur-e

Jeffrey Robert Angell

After graduating with a Masters of Arts in Music Therapy from New York University in 2012, Jeffrey Angell worked as a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in an in-patient psychiatry unit at King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, where he led hip-hop, songwriting, drumming, sing-a-long, and improvisatory music therapy groups. He also supervised NYU music therapy masters students committed to psychiatric clinical internships. For two weeks in 2013, he lectured on music therapy to students and faculty at the University of Zimbabwe, conducted clinical sessions at clinics throughout Harare, and was the guest speaker at a local therapist supervision group. Jeff was the music facilitator at Project Common Bond in 2014, a summer symposium for international adolescents who lost family members to acts of terrorism, violent extremism, or war. Jeff returned to Africa in August 2015, this time to Yaoundé, Cameroon where he moved with his wife while she helps to advise an HIV Impact Assessment with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Jeff continues his journey as an international music therapist, as a student of music, culture, and healing.  Jeff also enjoys performing, recording, and teaching as a bassist and guitarist.

Ruth Verhey, The Friendship Bench Project

Ruth is a clinical psychologist who is involved in all the components of the Friendship Bench.She works with the Zee bag participants offering psychological support and direction. She is involved in developing the intervention, the manual and training for the lay health workers.She is also an outstanding baker and has ensured all the team have been well fed throughout the course of the project.

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Publié-e

2015-11-09

Comment citer

Angell, J. R., & Verhey, R. (2015). Le Plus nous sommes ensemble, nous sommes plus heureux: Music Pair dans le traitement de la santé mentale au Zimbabwe. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v15i3.837

Numéro

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2015): Special Issue on Medical Ethnomusicology and Music Therapy

Rubrique

Invited Submission - Special Issue

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