Meeting art with art : arts-based methods enhance researcher reflexivity in research with mental health service users
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23/12/2015
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Resumo |
This paper presents a rationale for arts-based practices in music therapy research, and provides an example of using ABR techniques in research. Arts-based materials are increasingly demonstrated to have the capacity to extend processes of reflexivity and analysis in a range of qualitative health research studies. By comparison, music therapy research studies have rarely employed arts-based methods or techniques. There is a need for more studies in music therapy that employ arts-based research to demystify and elaborate a wider range of creative approaches within music therapy inquiry. In the study described in this paper, ABR was used to reflect on the contribution of a service user in a community mental health context who participated in a focus group about his experiences of music therapy. ABR was found to offer a creative way to engage service users, and to deepen and extend the researcher's reflexivity when responding to materials created by research participants. |
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eng |
Publicador |
Oxford University Press |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30080618/edwards-meetingart-2016.pdf http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thv016 |
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2015, American Music Therapy Association |
Palavras-Chave | #art #community mental health services #creativity #focus groups #female #humans #male #music therapy #qualitative research |
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Journal Article |