Abstract
Background: As a student on my second year field-learning placement, working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in a mainstream school, I became interested in finding a research instrument that would identify, and capture the complexity of, the “active ingredients” in the music therapy process, namely, child characteristics, therapist characteristics and characteristics of their interaction.Objective: To explore the application of the Child Psychotherapy Q-Sort (Schneider & Jones, 2004) to the process of Music Therapy.Methods: Rating of the 100 Child Psychotherapy Q-Sort (CPQ) items by experienced music therapists from various theoretical orientations, in order to construct a Music Therapy CPQ prototype. Comparison of this prototype with qualitative descriptive analyses of Music Therapy session videos.Discussion: This research is still in the data gathering stage. Discussion of results to follow.Conclusions: This research is still in the data gathering stage. Conclusions to follow.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
