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These are details of books on research. For the list please click on Research List on the left-hand side.
Art-Based Research Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998, Price £16.95 By Shaun McNiff
Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process.
Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for research.
A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy – Theory, Clinical Practice, Research and Training Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002, Price £27.50 (Book includes 2 CDs) By Tony Wigram, Inge Nygaard Pedersen & Lars Ole Bonde Music therapists, as in medical and paramedical professions, have a rich diversity of approaches and methods, often developed with specific relevance to meet the needs of a certain client population. This book reflects the many components of such diversity, and is a thoroughly comprehensive guide to accessing and understanding the ideas, theory, research results and clinical outcomes that are the foundations of this field. Providing a detailed insight into the field of music therapy from an international perspective, this book enables the reader to see the complete picture of the multifaceted and fascinating world that is music therapy.
Art and Music: Therapy and Research Published by Routledge, 1995 Price £19.99 Edited by Andrea Gilroy and Colin Lee
Do art therapy and music therapy work? How can you conduct research into disciplines which incorporate art, music and therapy? This is the first comprehensive overview of the present state of research in art therapy and music therapy in the UK. It challenges assumptions about research in these areas, and makes use of research models from art history and music analysis, as well as the more orthodox psychological and medical models used in clinical work. Information and reassuring for those interested in undertaking research, the book gives lively accounts of the personal process of the art therapy and music therapy researcher. It presents the reader with many original ideas and strategies, and will be an invaluable reference book for practitioners and students of art therapy and music therapy, as well as for health professionals who work with them.
Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies - a practical guide Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001, Price £18.99 By Gary Ansdell and Mercédès Pavlicevic
A mystique about research usually comes from reading (a) writers who launch into philosophical dialectics about research and avoid the basics: (b) poorly written research papers full of undecipherable formulae; and c) smug, unfriendly research texts.
This book begins at the beginning. Ansdell and Pavlicevic hold your hand and give you plenty of hints and tips while you prepare your funding proposal or research project. The help you think about your title, structure your research questions and aims, and prepare to collect, organize and analyze your research data. Moreover, you're not alone! Franz and Suzie have their own projects which you're invited to follow with opportunities to learn about the nitty-gritty of tables, pie-charts, data transcription, data presentation - and supervisors who toss off clever, useless bits of advice.
Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies puts the zap into arts therapies research, making it fun and serious, exasperating and utterly absorbing. Miss this book and you'll deprive yourself of a sympathetic ear, firm advice and a sensible and imaginative combustion of theory, debate and determination. Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies is recommended to all arts therapies practitioners: students, researchers, and those clinicians who simply want to 'keep up' with research literature without 'doing it for themselves'.
Case Study Designs in Music Therapy Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005 Price £19.95 Edited by David Aldridge
Research and clinical work are often perceived as opposites in the field of music therapy. This book demonstrates how these two areas of work creatively complement one another, enriching both perspectives. Each chapter is written by a leading researcher and practitioner in the field, and the book covers a wide spectrum of approaches within different settings, including methodological and musicological approaches to case studies, the use of case studies in an interactive play setting and in music therapy with the elderly. It is a must for all professionals working and studying with music therapy, as well as for health researchers.
Multiple Perspectives - A Guide to Qualitative Research in Music Therapy Published by Barcelona Publishers, USA, 1997, Price £23.00 By Henk Smeijsters
A comprehensive and insightful survey of existing approaches to qualitative research in music therapy. The author begins by comparing qualitative and quantitative paradigms; he then introduces the reader to single-case designs. In the rest of the book, Dr Smeijsters provides a probing and thoughtful analysis of ten examples of qualitative research, pointing out significant theoretical and methodological issues, while also offering sensitive and personal commentary on each approach. Drawing upon his extensive experience in clinical music therapy research, he gives enormous breadth and depth of perspective to the diversity already evident in the field. Reading the book is like taking a journey through the forest with a guide continually pointing out what to notice. The language is straightforward and the dialogue is personal. This book is certainly one of the landmarks in the forest.
Music Therapy Research - Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives Published by Barcelona, USA,1995, Price £31.00 Edited by Barbara L Wheeler Edited and authored by eminent researchers and scholars in the field, the book contains 24 chapters each dealing with a particular facet of research. This is a standard reference for students and professionals, only obtainable in the UK from the BSMT. Music Therapy Research: Growing Perspectives in Theory and Practice Volume 1 Published by BSMT Publications, 2001 Price £15.95 Edited by Jacqueline Z Robarts This is the first volume of research papers to be published by the British Society for Music Therapy ~BSMT Publications~. It includes original articles as well as reprinted papers with original commentaries by distinguished researchers and experienced clinicians - Ken Aigen, Wendy Magee, Amelia Oldfield, Mercedes Pavlicevic, Jackie Robarts, Penny Rogers, Gro Trolldalen and Barbara Wheeler. Growing Perspectives is a collection of papers intended for music therapists embarking on research. It focuses on practitioner research, as this is an customary stepping stone into the research field for many music therapists. This is not a research manual, outlining how to do research. Rather it presents researchers experiences of research, and in this way acts as an introduction to contemporary research in music therapy, covering projects with a range of client-participants, children and adults, and with a range of paradigms. We are invited behind the scenes, as authors reflect on certain aspects of their studies, illuminating the lived experience of research. Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996, Price £18.95 By David Aldridge This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging volume explores the power of music as a healing treatment for a variety of medical conditions including AIDS, cancer, coma, senile-dementia and autism in children. This eye-opening book is valuable reading not only for music therapists but also creative arts therapists, occupational therapists, healthcare professionals, hospice workers and any other profession or student with chronically ill patients or the dying. Presenting the Evidence: A Guide for Music Therapists Responding to the Demands of Clinical Effectiveness and Evidence-Based Practice Published by Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, 2004, Price £10.00 By Gary Ansdell, Mercedes Pavlicevic and Simon Procter What is your response to Evidence-based Practice? Can you present evidence for the Clinical Effectiveness of your work? Do these two questions bring sweat to your palms, fog to your head? If so, you are not alone! Most arts therapists are not trained to make and informed response to these questions. But often - as lone clinicians - they nevertheless need to engage with the culture of evidence-based practice, in order to launch new services, or protect existing ones. This Guide was written by members of the Research Department of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, for its Outreach partners - who were needing advice on how to tackle the 'demand for evidence'. Whilst this Guide cannot be a comprehensive treatment of the subject, it sets out to support the clinician by:
Qualitative Music Therapy Research: Beginning Dialogues Published by Barcelona Publishers, 1996, Price £19.00 Edited by Mechtild Langenberg, Kenneth Aigen and Jörg Frommer Inspired by the First Symposium on Qualitative Music Therapy Research, this book brings together the ideas of scholars from around the world on the challenges of researching clinical work. First, the authors present monologues on their own theories and approaches to qualitative inquiry, using a variety of novel narrative forms to explore fundamental questions: What are meaningful criteria for evaluating the integrity of qualitative research? What is the role of the researcher's self? What are the epistemological foundations for the various positions taken? After providing their own answers, the authors react to one another in a lively and fascinating set of dialogues, which also includes reactions of other symposium participants. Together, the monologues and dialogues present a dazzling array of creative ideas on music therapy research, while also creating a daring new form for scholarly interaction.
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