Music therapy research: I. A review of the medical research literature within a general context of music therapy research. Special Issue: Research in the creative arts therapies

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1993; 20: 11-35.

Abstract: Reviews music therapy (MT) research published in medical and creative arts therapy journals from 1983 to 1990. Although the literature is extensive, there is a general absence of valid clinical research material from which substantive conclusions can be drawn. Group creative MT in psychiatric hospitals appears to reflect the acceptance of the creative arts therapies themselves in such hospital settings. Receptive taped music, used as an anxiolytic for individual patients has found favor particularly in coronary care units and in cancer pain care. MT with handicapped adults and children is not extensively represented in the literature, although general reports emphasize the necessity of a creative arts environment within general hospital settings for the management of the mentally handicapped. Major flaws exist in the research methodology of many MT studies.

Note: music therapy research in medical & creative arts therapy journals; 1983 90; literature review

Keyword(s): Music therapy; experimentation ; literature review

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