ALMANYA’DA MÜZİK TERAPİ ALANINDA GERÇEKLEŞTİRİLEN BİLİMSEL YAYINLARIN İNCELENMESİ (2010-2019)

Abstract

The healing power and effect of music are well-known by many cultures throughout history. Thanks to the recent technological developments, it has been proved that beyond its soothing and calming properties, music is a powerful cognitive stimulant. It can reach an individual’s inner world deeper where the oral communication falls short, and it is a motivation source for motoric movements. Because of these researches and their outcomes, the music therapy field occurred in psychology. Germany initiated research on music therapy with psychiatric patients in a clinical environment after WWII. The field of music therapy has been gaining popularity among researchers from different disciplines, and new interdisciplinary studies have been emerging. In the field of music therapy in Germany, the types of publication, subject fields, distribution of scientific studies, publication fields, years and what they are were determined as the problem of the research in the field of music therapy in 2010-2019. The aim is to investigate and study of these publications that are published in Germany. The surveying method is used to denounce the problem of this study. The data of this study is attained by analysing the databases; and these data are categorised as books, theses, articles and scientific events; the analysis of the data is done descriptive and quantitative according to the frequency and percentage distribution. As a result of the research, it was determined that there are 582 scientific publications: 190 books, 137 theses, 195 articles and 60 scientific events (congresses, symposiums, conferences, etc.).