How do music therapists experience themselves in clinical improvisation in music therapy? The aim of this inter-disciplinary study is to show how music therapists describe and experience the life-world of the self in ...

As recovery is a prevailing vision for modern mental health services internationally, it is timely to consider its current state of play in relation to music therapy practice. This paper offers a theoretical perspective ...

Background: Mental health service development internationally is increasingly informed by the collaborative ethos of recovery. Service user evaluation of experiences within music therapy programs allows new phenomena about ...

This article explores the spiritual aspects of making music, with reference to music therapy practice and theory. The research questions addressed in this article are: (1) Does singing in a choir have spiritual health ...

The Cardboard Box Garden (CBG) originated from a shared dissatisfaction with current computer technology as it is presented to children. This paper shall briefly review the process involved in the creation of this ...

This study aims to create an automatic musical instrument classifier by extracting audio features from real sample sounds. These features are reduced using Principal Component Analysis and the resultant data is used ...

A commitment to the thinkable specificify of a particular century, with literature as the apparent object, can provide intimations of the currency-lives of words. Authorial names become a vector of differentiation, accumulating ...

In complex service-oriented systems, a number of layers of abstraction may be considered, in particular the models of the organisations involved, how interactions are coordinated and the services which are used and made ...

Driving is a job, a hobby and a form of transport that enables occupation. It is both an occupation and an occupation enabler. This study investigated the impact of the inability to drive due to epilepsy on community ...

My window, in the house where I have been living for the past eleven months, looks across to a much larger house full of retired missionary priests. Sitting at my desk every day, I see the same navy jumper and head of ...