What Did You Expect?

Exploring the Roles of Clients’ and Referrers’ Expectations in the Success of the Music Therapy Process

作者

  • Susannah Wettone Non-affiliated, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i2.2950

关键词:

Expectations, therapeutic relationship, therapy process, assessment, client perspective

摘要

你期望什么?探讨来访者和转介人的期望在音乐治疗过程成功中的作用

摘要

本文探讨了来访者和转介人的期望是如何影响音乐治疗过程的。这一位为音乐治疗提供者工作的个体音乐治疗师。该治疗师的转诊来自社区,经由提供者网站。社区中心有一个房间用作治疗室。本文通过三个案例研究,探讨了来访者或转介人对音乐治疗的期望与工作实际结果之间的关系。第一个案例研究阐明,在来访者的期望与治疗师所能提供的服务不对等的情况下,来访者在知情的情况下仍决定继续接受音乐治疗。第二个案例研究考虑了如何通过治疗师和转介人之间关于转介人期望的沟通,来满足具有挑战性治疗过程中客户的需求。第三个案例研究探讨了转介人的治疗经验可能导致她所转介的来访者对治疗的高期望。本文探讨了这些期望是如何影响治疗过程的。作者认为,转介来访者的人的期望会对治疗的过程产生重大的影响,必须加以考虑。

Author Biography

Susannah Wettone, Non-affiliated, UK

Susannah Wettone graduated as a music therapist from Anglia Polytechnic University (now Anglia Ruskin University) in 1999, completing her MA in music therapy in 2001. She began her career as an employed music therapist in special education. She has also worked in the NHS in adult mental health. Since 2004 she has worked for a music therapy provider in South East England. She has worked with adults and children in a variety of settings, such as schools, hospitals, day centres and residential homes as well as taking referrals from the community. Susannah has an interest in communication with referrers and the wider multi-disciplinary team and enjoys supervising music therapy students on placement. Her main areas of experience over the last few years are autistic spectrum conditions, pre-school children and, more recently, music therapy for parents and children.

Photo of author Susannah Wettone

已出版

2021-06-25

How to Cite

Wettone, S. (2021). What Did You Expect? Exploring the Roles of Clients’ and Referrers’ Expectations in the Success of the Music Therapy Process. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i2.2950

栏目

Reflections on Practice