The purpose of this thesis is to research and compile the five major religions in the United States in order to provide hospice music therapists with informative material on how the philosophies of those religions may affect a patient and family’s quality of care at end-of-life.…
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In the fall of 2003 I was invited to lead a team of music therapists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a country that had been recently savaged by two brutal inter-ethnic wars. The program operated out of the Pavarotti Music Centre on the East side of Mostar, a divided city in th…
Music therapy is widely portrayed either as a paramedical practice within which music is a technology applied as a form of treatment or as a form of psychotherapy within which the music plays a primarily symbolic role or acts as a lead in to verbal consideration of the patient’s…
The objectives of this thesis were to explore the effects of receptive individualised live and recorded-music on interactions within participating dyads consisting of a person with dementia who was in their final phase of life (resident), and a person with whom he or she shared …
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication skills, including motor control, emotional facial expressions, and eye gaze / joint attention. This Ph.D. dissertation focuses on studying the feasibility and effectiveness of …
Alzheimer’s Disease International has identified that dementia and related disorders is threatening populations in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) at an increasing rate. Persons with dementia (PwDs), their family members, and caregivers experience increased social isolat…
The protracted Global War on Terrorism affects the mental health of military personnel, veterans, and their families, and their numbers increase. Clinicians providing mental health treatment primarily utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Due to statistically significant i…
This mixed-methods study examined music therapists’ experiences with, education regarding, and attitudes about music therapy with people who have multiple intersectional cultural perspectives. In the first phase, a survey created by the researcher was used to gathered informatio…
In Taiwan, many Taiwanese elders suffered from tumultuous political changes throughout their lifetime due to Japanese colonization (1895-1945) and the Kuomintang (KMT) dictatorship (1949-1991). They were born and raised to become Japanese, but their childhood was heavily disrupt…
The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine (LACMM) of the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) in New York City has sustained robust music therapy programming for over 26 years. This case study of its strategies of sustainability was conducted with consideration of the broade…
Little to no research has been done on the history, development and current practice of a specific country’s approach to music therapy. This study examines the development of music therapy in Hungary with regards to cultural influences, which the researcher has a unique understa…
Theories of autistic musicality—or, how autistic people experience and perform music—have existed since the modern concept of autism was elaborated in the 1940s. As understandings of autism have changed, so too have ideas concerning autistic musicality. This dissertation explore…
This thesis, which was completed as part of the requirements for the Doctor of Ministry degree program at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, NJ, describes a study done in a small, rural, Vermont United Church of Christ congregation comparing the use of spoken g…