“Human Experiences are so Complex”

A Creative Arts Exploration of UK Qualified and Trainee Music Therapists’ Views About Mental Health Diagnoses and Their Relevance to Music Therapy Clinical Practice.

Autor/innen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v26i3.4689

Schlagworte:

Story completion, improvisation, interviews, client-centred, reflexive thematic analysis

Abstract

A significant percentage of music therapists work in mental health settings. The music therapy literature evidences a range of perspectives on mental health diagnoses, but there is little in the way of research exploring music therapists’ and trainee music therapists’ sense-making around them. This qualitative study uses a novel story completion-reflexive improvisation-interview (SC-RI-I) method to explore in-depth eight UK qualified and trainee music therapists’ assumptions and beliefs about, and approaches to, mental health diagnoses. We used reflexive thematic analysis to develop four themes from the data: 1) Ambivalence about diagnosis; 2) Where do music therapists fit?; 3) Music therapists are client-centred; and 4) Music therapists critique the system. The participants expressed mainly reservations about mental health diagnoses, but also acknowledged they can have value, and were uncertain about their own positioning within diagnosis-led mental health systems. They emphasised the importance of recognising client individuality and prioritised person-centred approaches, which they viewed as fundamentally at odds with diagnosis-led mental healthcare. Their accounts often echoed anti-/critical-psychiatry views, critiquing both mental health systems and wider understandings of mental health. The SC-RI-I method could serve as a useful framework for producing rich and detailed data about music therapists’ experiences and perspectives in future research.

Autor/innen-Biografien

Tina Hitchens, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Tina Hitchens, MA, MMus (she/her) graduated from the MA Music Therapy training at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in 2024. Based in the South West of England, Tina is a free improviser, composer, sound artist, and educator. For over 30 years Tina has been interested in how we experience ourselves with others in sound, and has often collaborated across disciplines (including film, poetry and dance), in addition to exploring Deep Listening practices. Tina has worked with community groups including people with a history of substance use, people with dementia, and mental health groups. Tina has experience of working in music therapy with people with learning disabilities, those with mental health needs, and people who have experienced trauma. Since qualifying as a music therapist, Tina has worked in adoption and special guardianship, and recently has taken up a post in a learning disability service. [thitchensmusictherapy@gmail.com]

Victoria Clarke, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Victoria Clarke, PhD, CPsychol, FBPSsS, FAcSS (she/her, they/them) is a Professor of Qualitative Psychology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, where she teaches research methods to music therapy students and supervises MA music therapy dissertation projects. Her own research addresses issues of difference and social justice, and with Virginia Braun she has written extensively about thematic analysis – see www.thematicanalysis.net – including most recently the award winning textbook Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (2022, Sage). They also write about qualitative methods more broadly and have a particular interest in developing the story completion method (see www.storycompletion.net). [Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk]

Luke Annesley, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Luke Annesley, DPhil, MPhil, MRes (he/him) is a jazz/improvising musician and a Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He worked for 12 years in the National Health Service for Oxleas Music Therapy Service and has been published in several academic journals, including the British Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Music Therapy and Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy. He has hosted the British Association for Music Therapy podcast Music Therapy Conversations since 2017. [Luke.Annesley@uwe.ac.uk]

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Hitchens, T., Clarke, V., & Annesley, L. (2026). “Human Experiences are so Complex”: A Creative Arts Exploration of UK Qualified and Trainee Music Therapists’ Views About Mental Health Diagnoses and Their Relevance to Music Therapy Clinical Practice. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v26i3.4689

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