International Association for Music & Medicine

Welcome to IAMM With You - Fall Edition!
2021-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
For our first session in this series, we will look back at the wonderful events we hosted in the previous season of IAMM With You: In Conversation. Additionally, we will give you a preview of what is coming up for the Fall Edition of IAMM With You.

More information about IAMM With You:
Leading scholars, researchers, educators, therapists, musicians, practitioners, and other visionaries offer their expertise in various specialties through an online interview or concert/presentation and open discussion. In the first 30 minutes, they present their current work, its development, and perspectives on the future of music and medicine/health, then respond to questions and comments for another 30 minutes.
These experts will also provide reading lists, playlists, websites, or audio/video files for future reference and investigation. Explore the full schedule here.
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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Siva Kumar
2021-09-21 10:00 - 11:00
Every person has the potential to heal themselves by discovering and abiding in the Spiritual dimension. Music is perhaps the most easily accessible route to reach this destination. That’s why, a strong role for music in all religious and spiritual traditions across various cultures throughout the ages could be discerned. However, an awareness regarding the mechanism of its working is very important to sustain the gains. Like a map being perused before the actual visit, the role of music in the scheme of things needs to be understood well. In Eastern philosophy, especially Indian, being perhaps among the oldest asserts the individual mind as the centre of the universe. Once this background canvas is experientially established, the individual personality and the world revealed through the mind get realized as separate un-entangled entities.
To reiterate, the revealing non-localized intelligence, which is the essence of oneself, is thereafter known as something not entangled in the enormous and confusing visible panaroma. This clarity affords real and absolute freedom that enables healing to happen at all levels. Music is perhaps the most easiest and endearing means for the mind to become lucid enough to experience and abide in this dimension. In this presentation, an attempt shall be made to decipher a few relevant verses of scriptural instructions enunciated by someone universally acknowledged as the greatest sage of the 20th century, Ramana Maharishi, whom the father of psychoanalysis Carl Jung glorified as the “whitest spot in the white space”. Come, let’s explore this dimension together!

About the Guest
Siva Kumar currently, is associated with the Research Department at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kerala, South India, the institution inspired by globally acclaimed spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. He is a post-graduate with M.Phil degree in life sciences and worked in the biopharmaceutical and medical diagnostics industry for over two decades earlier including heading the organization’s corporate training institution as well. He has been disseminating the teachings of Ramana Maharishi for the past several years. He cherishes teaching Indian philosophical thoughts to post-graduate students of Clinical Psychology and value education classes to undergraduates at the healthcare campus of this leading university. He firmly believes that humanity has no option but to evolve to the higher spiritual consciousness in order to establish genuine peace in a world where expanding competitive cultural and religious boundaries cause friction.

This event will be hosted by Maria Montserrat Gimeno Domènech, EdD., LCAT, MT-BC, a member of IAMM’s Board of Directors.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Sebastian Hachmeyer
2021-09-29 11:00 - 12:00
In a recent article about musical healing in the Bolivian Andes (Hachmeyer 2019), Sebastian Hachmeyer focused on performative and kinaesthetic aspects of collective flute music and dance as part of a place-based bodily understanding of healing in the Andes. He argued that health and sickness, but also music and dance, can be very different things depending on ontological perspective.
In this conversation, he wishes to turn to sound as a source of healing in the Andes. He will discuss sound within three spheres: Sound as Energy, Sound in Environment, and Sounds of (Dis)Harmony.
About the Guest
Sebastian Hachmeyer is a Post-Doc Researcher at Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany. He received his PhD in Music and Geography from Royal Holloway University of London. Sebastian is a human ecologist, environmental geographer, and ethnomusicologist specialised in ecomusicology. Besides climate change, materiality of music/musical instruments, and questions of sustainability, his research in Bolivia further addresses issues surrounding musical healing and the relationship to place and the spiritual environment of the Andes.

This event will be hosted by Samuel Gracida, MA, MT, IAMM Chair of Communications and Outreach, Operating Director at Sam’s Fans, and leader in diverse projects regarding music therapy in Germany, Mexico, and Internationally.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Jennifer Buchanan
2021-10-19 13:00 - 14:00
Like many music therapists, Jennifer started with a huge mission. She wanted to help people in their pursuit of optimum health. But after running her private practice for twenty years, even with thousands of clients and loyal staff, she felt burned out and not sure if her private practice would make it. Rather than quit, Buchanan went on an intense quest to prove her private practice’s viability and identify the key components of sustainable healthcare practices. She would need everything she learned a decade later to make it through the pandemic and on to the post-covid world.

About the Guest
Founder of JB Music Therapy private practice in 1991….now almost 30 years later we have a team of 18 certified music therapists. Author of two award-winning books, ‘Wellness Incorporated’ and ‘Tune In’ with a new book as of October 10 that features the Power of a Playlist. Jennifer is regularly invited to speak at healthcare, and wellness focused conferences and rounds out her career with an Executive MBA – currently using these skills as the Executive Director of the Canadian Associaton of Music Therapists.
This event will be hosted by Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi, MTA, member of Music and Medicine’s Editorial Board.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Nuria Escude & Rafael Ramirez-Melendez
2021-10-30 15:00 - 16:00
Music is known to have the power to induce strong emotions. In this talk we will assess, based on Electroencephalography (EEG) data, the emotional response of terminally ill cancer patients to a music therapy intervention in a randomized controlled trial. A sample of 40 participants from the palliative care unit in the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona was randomly assigned to two groups of 20. The first group [experimental group (EG)] participated in a session of music therapy (MT), and the second group [control group (CG)] was provided with company. Based on our previous work on EEG-based emotion detection, instantaneous emotional indicators in the form of a coordinate in the arousal-valence plane were extracted from the participants’ EEG data. The emotional indicators were analyzed in order to quantify (1) the overall emotional effect of MT on the patients compared to controls, and (2) the relative effect of the different MT techniques applied during each session. EEG data analysis showed a significant increase in valence (p = 0.0004) and arousal (p = 0.003) during the MT session in the EG. No significant changes were found in the CG. Artificial intelligence techniques were applied to build computational predictive models of music therapy outcomes before the session took place.

About our Guests
Dr. Rafael Ramirez (Prof, PhD) is a Tenured Associate Professor and Leader of the Music and Machine Learning Lab at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is Lecturer and Research Coordinator in the Master in Music Therapy, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics form the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and his MSc and PhD in Artificial Intelligence and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, UK. He studied Classical Violin and Guitar at the National School of Music in Mexico, and since then he has played with different music groups in Europe, America and Asia. For five years, Rafael was a Lecturer in National University of Singapore. His research interests include music technology, music therapy, artificial intelligence, and their application to health and well-being. In particular, he has conducted research on the impact of music and music therapy in autism, emotional disorders, palliative care, cerebral palsy, stroke, and parkinson decease. He has published more than 120 research articles in peer-reviewed international Journals and Conferences, and acted as guest-editor of several special issues focused on music and artificial intelligence.
Núria Escudé (BA, Mth) is a lecturer and Director of the Music Therapy Program at the University of Barcelona since 2002. She is a psychologist and qualified piano teacher. She is also director and Music Therapist at the Catalan Institute of Music Therapy, where she has worked with children with special needs for the last 15 years in collaboration with the Barenboim Said Fundation. Member of the Board of the Directors of the International Association for Music & Medicine. Nuria is working and researching music therapy in NICU (University Hospital Terrassa), and RBL (Rhythm, Breath, & Lullaby), and works in the Oncology and Paliative Care Units in UPS Hospital Esperanza, Barcelona, and also works in the Hospital San Juan de Dios, Barcelona, with patients affected with Alzheimer’s disease.

This event will be hosted by Dr. Josep Planas Domingo, member of IAMM’s Board of Directors.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With the Nordic Network on Research in Music and Public Health
2021-11-05 09:00 - 10:00
In this conversation with Lars Ole Bonde (Denmark), Karette Stensæth/Gro Trondalen (Norway), Eva Bojner Horwitz (Sweden) and Suvi Saarikallio (Finland), we will learn about the Nordic Network on Research in Music and Public Health. The network formed in 2016 with the purpose of gathering researchers from the fields of music therapy, music psychology and public health to stimulate collaboration and new studies on how music can promote and maintain health. The conversation will touch on past, current, and future studies led by members of this network, such as: Health of music professionals, Choral singing as health promotion, Musical participation in a public health perspective, Health musicking for a number of target groups

About our Guests
Suvi Saarikallio, PhD, Docent of Music Psychology, works as associate professor of music education at the Center for Interdisciplinary Music Research, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is an expert in music psychological research on emotion regulation, youth psychosocial development, and emotional wellbeing. After completing a PhD in Music Education in 2007, Saarikallio has rapidly established an internationally acknowledged research career combining approaches from music psychology, music therapy, and music education, using methods from qualitative theory development to motion capture, neural measures, and psychometrics, and actively publishing her work in the top journals of the field.
Karette Stensæth, PhD, is professor in music therapy at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she also works as the director of the Centre for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH). Her research interest is broad and involves social and phil- osophical perspectives on music and health. Stensæth has edited several books in the CREMAH Series. Her fresh monograph is on responsiveness in music therapy improvisation inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas. Stensæth has much clinical experience as a music therapist working with children and youth with special needs. She sings, plays, and composes music in her spare time.
Gro Trondalen, PhD, FAMI is a professor in music therapy and a senior researcher of the Centre for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. She is an experienced music therapy clinician, researcher, and supervisor, and maintains a private practice in The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).
Eva Bojner Horwitz, PhD, professor of music and health, cultural health researcher, and specialized in psychosomatic medicine and creative arts, working at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She is a co-founder at the Center for Social Sustainability, CSS, Karolinska Institutet (KI) Sweden,researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience KI and Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University. She is anchored in interdisciplinary research, has doctoral students, authored scientific articles, books, and book chapters. Her research expertise covers interventions with music/dance/theater, focusing on alexithymia, creative achievement, embodiment, emotional regulation, multimodality, knowledge concerts, nature-related activities, fairy tales and public health.
Lars Ole Bonde, PhD, FAMI, is a former professor in music therapy at AalborgUniversity (DK) and professor emeritus at Center for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH) at the Norwegian Academy of Music (N). He is a certified music therapist and clinical supervisor. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as music and concert producer. He served as associate editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy until 2017. His current research projects include music and public health, music therapy for people suffering from schizophrenia, and monographs on the Danish composers Bent Lorentzen and John Høybye. He has published numerous books, book chapters, and articles on the theory and practice of music therapy, music psychology, music edu- cation, music theatre – and music and health.

This event will be hosted by Suzanne B. Hanser, EdD, MT-BC, IAMM’s President.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Andrés Ojeda and Miguel Basabe
2021-11-08 17:00 - 18:00
This presentation will focus on a study which identifies through a brain-computer interface, the correlation between the records of encephalographic signals of intergenerational music therapy activities, with the regulation of emotions. Emotion regulation is conceptualized as momentary affective states which arise from experiences that modify various areas of the brain, and the physical and psychological functioning of people.
A convenience sample of 14 adults, youth and children in an age range between 7 and 74 years participated in the study, forming an intergenerational group. The participants were evaluated simultaneously during 16 sessions.
The data were processed quantitatively through non-parametric statistics with Wilcoxon signed rank test, then qualitatively interpreted with a categorical analysis matrix for the triangulation of information, thus identifying the emotional regulation strategies resulting from intergenerational music therapy methods.
The results show that intergenerational music therapy methods and techniques significantly facilitate the regulation of emotions for individuals and groups in terms of attention and concentration; however, the study sample should be expanded for greater validity and reliability in the results.

About Our Guests
Andrés Felipe Ojeda Sánchez, MM, MT, Music Conductor and Master in Music Therapy from the National University of Colombia. His work has been focused on music and neuroscience, specifically in rehabilitation processes and neurodegenerative diseases to contribute to the individual and collective well-being.
Currently, he works as a professor and researcher at the Conservatory of Music and in the Master’s Degree in Music Therapy of the National University of Colombia. His research results of Clinical Music Therapy have been shared in several conferences and events. Likewise, he works as a music therapist serving individual, group and clinical population, including people affected by Covid-19 pandemic’s confinement.
Miguel Ángel Basabe, MM, MT, National University of Colombia. Psychologist, Master in Music Therapy and teacher at the National University of Colombia, he has worked for several years as a coordinator and consultant of public health in different government projects. He has worked in the field of mental health in institutions such as the Red Cross and the ICBF, among others.
He recently completed studies in data engineering and artificial intelligence as a fellow of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies of Colombia. In his role as a professor in public and private universities in the country, he has participated as a lecturer in various national and international conferences.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation with Mary Rorro and Sydelle Ross
2021-11-16 18:00 - 19:00
Dr. Mary Rorro, will discuss her therapeutic music program for veterans, “A Few Good Notes,” She helped create the Guitar Instruction Group in her VA, which provides free guitars and lessons for veterans and she performs with patient musicians on viola.
Dr. Rorro will share a video of the guitar group and present a slide presentation about the benefits of “A Few Good Notes,” by providing veteran and employee feedback, as well as share poetry based on themes of post-traumatic stress disorder and war to help patients in their journey toward healing.
As the Chair of the Music and Medicine and Humanities Committee of the American Medical Women’s Association, Dr. Rorro will discuss several of the music and medicine initiatives, and share two music videos “Physicians Healers and Healthcare Heroes,” to honor healthcare heroes around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, and “Meet The Moment” to deliver a musical public health message about COVID-19 prevention measures, mask wearing and vaccination, featuring diverse international pre-med students and physicians.
Dr. Ross will begin by giving a brief introduction to hospice and palliative medicine, highlighting its role in the care of very sick patients.
Based on anecdotal experiences with music in her practice, Dr. Ross will discuss the psychological, emotional and spiritual impact of bedside signing on patients living with life-limiting illnesses and patients at end of life, as well as the impact of this intervention on their loved ones.
As she relates these experiences, Dr. Ross will share some of the songs that she sang as musical offerings to the Veterans and their loved ones. She will also briefly discuss some of the findings in the medical literature that lend support to the outcome of these experiences.

About our Guests
Dr. Mary Rorro, is a board-certified psychiatrist who graduated cum laude with honors in music from Bryn Mawr College and received their first Performing Arts Prize. She was Chief Resident and Resident of the Year (from Pfizer) during her psychiatry residency at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rorro completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She cares for veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey VA Healthcare System and created her “A Few Good Notes” therapeutic music program for veterans. She is also a musician, songwriter, and poet. Dr. Rorro is the recipient of a Jefferson Award, which is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious recognition program for volunteer public service, and the official recognition program of the United States Senate.
Dr. Sydelle Ross is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist who currently practices hospice and palliative medicine. She holds board certifications in all three disciplines. Dr. Ross received her doctor of medicine degree from Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her residency training in anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Ross completed her fellowship training in pain medicine at the Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and she currently practices in the New Jersey Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
Dr. Ross is a classically trained vocalist who uses the gift of music to care for her patients who are living with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses. She is the host of a podcast entitled Prescriptions In Song, whose goal is to promote awareness of the healing potential of music. Dr. Ross is a recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Humanism in Medicine Award, which recognizes physicians who are exemplars of compassionate patient care and who serve as role models, mentors and leaders in medicine.

This event will be hosted by Dr. Mohan Sundararaj MBBS, MPH, IAMM’s Chair of Development and Finance.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Jane Edwards
2021-12-01 19:00 - 20:00
In this conversation we will talk with Jane Edwards, IAMM’s Founding President, about her time as President of IAMM, as well as her current professional interests. We will also talk about music and medicine in Australia and human experiences of the arts, in particular how people use music to navigate self-regulation functions. We will also talk with Dr. Edwards about her research into family and childhood topics, the rights of the child, and therapeutic practices and techniques with indigenous communities.

About our Guest
Jane Edwards, PhD, is an experienced academic leader in research development and academic mentoring. Her research interests intersect creative arts, methodology, health, child and family, and mental wellbeing. She is sole editor for the Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy published in 2016 and is Editor-in-Chief for The Arts in Psychotherapy published by Elsevier. Jane has given more than 20 keynote lectures in seven countries. She is the President of the Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare. Prior to commencing at UNE she has worked as a researcher or senior academic leader in seven universities across four countries; Australia, Germany, Ireland and the UK.

This event will be hosted by Patravoot Vatanasapt, MD, MS, Past President of IAMM.

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IAMM With you: In Conversation with Rieko Eguchi
2021-12-15 20:00 - 21:00
In this event, NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) music therapy for palliative and terminal care will be discussed based on experiences, reflections, and considerations from early clinical practice at Saitama Children’s Medical Center, Japan. The NICU/GCU (growing care unit) music therapy program started at the hospital in 2018. The program provides support for premature babies and their families, and the music therapist has involved in palliative and terminal care in several families since the program started. There are few articles and resources on music therapy for palliative and terminal care in NICU settings, despite its important work for babies, their families as well as medical professionals. It is essential to work in a collaboration with medical professionals.
Dr. Masaki Shimizu, the director of the department of neonatology, (and Mami Kotani (RN) from Saitama Children’s Medical Center, will join this discussion.

About Our Guest
Rieko Eguchi, MA, MT-BC, CCLS, (Grandparent of Rhythm, Breath and Lullaby) currently works as a music therapist in the unit of neonatology at Saitama Children’s Medical Center in Japan. She holds a M.A. in Music Therapy at Montclair State University, the U.S. She was an intern and research scholar and assisted with various research studies at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine in New York, September 2015 – February 2018. She also had a child life clinical internship at the center. Her clinical experiences are various including NICU, pediatrics, outpatient radiation oncology, and palliative care. She has a several publications related in NICU music therapy in Japanese medical journals. She is a member of Japanese Association for Promotion of Medical Music Therapy.

This event will be hosted by Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MT, member of Music and Medicine’s Editorial Board.

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Global Café - Israel
2022-01-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
IAMM Global Café (IGC) is a virtual networking event for IAMM members across the world. These Cafés are hosted by members of IAMM’s Committee on Global Reporting.
The next IGC focuses on the intersection of music and medicine/health in Israel. Dana Yacobson will host a panel of practitioners actively engaged in music and medicine/health in pediatric settings in Israel. Participants will have the opportunity to converse with the co-hosts, as well as each other.
All IAMM members will receive a recording of this event. This event is scheduled to last for one hour.
All IAMM members are welcome to attend these Global Cafés. Please join with a cup of coffee, tea, or your choice of libation, and enjoy the conversation!
IAMM Global Café – Israel Spotlight is hosted by Dana Yacobson, Member, of IAMM’s Global Reporting Committee

Assistive Music Technology: Creating Opportunity for Visually Impaired Musicians
2022-02-18 13:00 - 14:00 | https://iammonline.com/event/chikim/
Please join us for this free event with Prof. Chi Gook Kim! Please register using the form below.

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The objectives of the Assistive Music Technology Lab at Berklee College of Music are to fully integrate blind students into the Berklee experience and empower blind and visually impaired students to create and perform music at the highest levels, translating into a successful career in music. Within this setting, Professor Kim teaches audio recording production, music scoring, and Braille music, addressing skills that are necessary in any music-related career. This presentation will feature the innovative work Berklee is doing to expand the boundaries of music education for visually impaired students, and demonstrate different assistive music technology available today for visually impaired musicians.

About our Guest
Chi Gook Kim, alumnus and Associate professor of Music Therapy at Berklee College of Music, founded the assistive music technology (AMT) program to ensure that students with visual impairments have the same opportunities as their sighted peers on campus and in the music industry when they graduate.
Professor Kim and the AMT program have been featured in major press such as the Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Mix Magazine. His work and life story was shared by Talks at Google and the focus of two documentary films on KBS, a major South Korean television network.
Professor Kim also works to improve accessibility across the Berklee campus in all aspects, consulting and collaborating with many faculty, staff and students around themes of disability, assistive technology, accessibility, and universal design. As an internationally recognized expert in assistive music technology, Professor Kim also consults with other universities and organizations to spread awareness and improve accessibility for all.
His latest project was to improve the accessibility of Sibelius, a major notation software, for visually impaired users. He also developed VOCR, which lets screen reader users navigate inaccessible apps on Mac through machine learning for optical character recognition. Additionally he created Flo Tools, featured at the 2017 and 2018 NAMM Show, is open-source project that dramatically enhances workflow for screen reader users to use Pro Tools, the industry standard for audio production software.
Professor Kim also works as the Chief Technology Officer and Producer at Serotonics Music, and scores for media, including tv documentaries and films featured at international film festivals.
Professor Kim received a BM in song-writing and Contemporary Writing&Production from Berklee, and a MM in music technology from New York University. Professor Kim is in his 12th year as a faculty member at Berklee.

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Music Therapy & Chronic Pain Online Seminar
2022-04-06 11:00 - 12:00
A public live streamed event with experts from across the globe discussing and demonstrating the use of music therapy for chronic pain.

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This public live streamed event will bring together international experts on chronic pain and music therapy to explore and present latest research and practice on how music and music therapy can support people living with chronic pain. Speakers include people living with chronic pain, a consultant anaesthetist specialising in pain management, and senior music therapists from across the globe. This event is presented by the International Association of Music Medicine special interest group on Music Therapy and Chronic Pain. The event is supported by the University Hospital Limerick and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.

IAMM Book Club 2022 - Breaking Strings
2022-11-09 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for this talk on Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy on November 11th.
In this innovative volume of Breaking Strings, Avi Gilboa from and Laurien Hakvoort use broken strings on an instrument as a metaphor to refer to those frustrating and sometimes upsetting moments when things go wrong in music therapy.
Although there are myriad ways in which music therapists can make mistakes and deal with the consequences, there is limited coverage of this subject in the professional literature. This book explores theoretical ideas and research on mistakes in music therapy. It also presents a series of authentic case studies in which 17 music therapists – ranging from novice to experienced practitioners, from 13 different countries – describe and reflect on mistakes in their own practice.
This book provides a starting point for both students and the wider music therapy community to discuss, analyze, and ultimately understand and learn from mistakes as part of their professional development.

Avi Gilboa (Israel), PhD, received his BA in Psychology and Music at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and subsequently his diploma in Music Therapy and his PhD in Cognitive Psychology. He has been a music therapist since 2001 in various settings and with different clinical populations. He is associate professor and head of the Music Therapy program at Bar-Ilan university. He supervises many music therapy PhD students and is supervisor of music therapy students and graduates.

Laurien Hakvoort (Netherlands), PhD, RMTh, NMT-Fellow, holds a BA and MA in Music Therapy from Amersfoort and University of the Pacific, California, USA, respectively. She obtained her PhD in Behavioral Sciences from Tilburg University. She has been a music therapist since 1994 and has worked as a music therapist in forensic psychiatry for 17 years and currently runs a private practice, Muzis.net. She is a music therapy lecturer on the bachelor’s and (pre-)master’s programs at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Enschede, the Netherlands and a freelance researcher.

Melissa Mercadal-Brotons, PhD, MT-BC, MTAE. Music therapist specialised in the area of gerontology and dementias. Member of the Research Group PSICOPERSONA (FPCCE-Blanquerna, URL). Director of the Master Programme in Music Therapy (idEC-UPF, Barcelona). Coordinator of Research and Master Programmes (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya-ESMUC). EMTC Spanish Delegate. Chair of the Publications Commission (WFMT).

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