Journal of Music Therapy back issues from July 2004:
Music Therapy's Relevance in a Cancer Hospital Researched Through a Constructivist Lens
Jul 01, 2004; ... The constructivist research paradigm informed a research investigation on the relevance of music therapy in a cancer hospital, that is, what did the music therapy do and did it help? Over 3 months, criterion sampling was used to elicit interpretations in 5 studies from 5 sources: 128 patients ...
Effects of Music Listening and Relaxation Instructions on Arousal Changes and the Working Memory Task in Older Adults
Jul 01, 2004; ... The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of subject-preferred music and relaxation instructions on older adults' arousal and working memory. Fifteen female older adults participated in 10 minutes of all 3 experimental conditions: (a) subject-preferred music, (b) relaxation ...
The Effects of Background Music on Quality of Sleep in Elementary School Children
Jul 01, 2004; ... The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the effects of background music on quality of sleep in elementary school children. Convenience sampling was used to recruit a total of 86 fifth graders (43 boys and 43 girls) from an elementary school in a city in Taiwan. Subjects ...
Music in Intervention for Children and Adolescents with Autism: A Meta-Analysis
Jul 01, 2004; ... This meta-analysis of 12 dependent variables from 9 quantitative studies comparing music to no-music conditions during treatment of children and adolescents with autism resulted in an overall effect size of d .77 and a mean weighted correlation of r = .36 (p = .00). Since the confidence interval ...
Music therapy and medicine: Theoretical and clinical applications
Jul 01, 2004; ... Dileo, C. (Ed.) (1999). Music therapy and medicine: Theoretical and clinical applications. Silver Spring, MD: American Music Therapy Association, Inc. (211 pages). This book is an updated compliment to Dileo-Maranto's 1991 "Applications of Music in Medicine." The 1991 text composed of 14 ...