Article: Music therapy in the Australian print media: a content analysis.(Report)

Abstract

As music therapy is a relatively young profession, educating the public about "What is music therapy?" is a vital part of our work. Newspaper articles access a novice and wide-reaching audience and music therapy is now being reported in print media more frequently than a decade ago. This paper describes a study that investigated how music therapy has been reported in Australian print media over the last 10 years (1996-2006), examining 178 articles retrieved via the Factiva search engine. Mixed-methods content analysis strategies were utilised for this study to examine both the main foci of articles and the nature of quoted material. Quantitative results ...

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