Another month of reading research goes by quickly! In this post you will find a blast of recently-release research related to music and therapy. Continue reading →

You might have been wondering about the dearth of posts as of late. With my full time job, conference schedule and grant writing – the blog has been on the “back burner”. However, I continue to read research daily. Here is a blast of things that I think are interesting. Continue reading →

Many music therapists who work with persons with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) use music for gait training and volitional movement training. A new meta-analysis was completed on music-facilitated movement in PD. Continue reading →

Part 2 of our three part series on reading and writing scholarly research in music therapy. We discuss our own reactions to stats as undergraduates, tips for increasing your stats reading IQ in journal articles, and summarize a few of the more common statistical analyses. Blythe reminds us that correlation does NOT equal causation: So sayeth Dilbert.

MTRB issues this podcast, the first in a three part series on you, the listener, as researcher. This episode is a guide through the parts of a scholarly paper, whether you want to be a better consumer of research, are a student writing your first scholarly papers, or ready to dive in to the world of publication.

Parts two and three coming soon are “The Results Section or Remember Stats Class?” and “The Qualitative Side of Things,” respectively.

We recommend two texts: “The Practitioners Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice” by Rubin and How To Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Silvia.

And this little number should help, too: How to Publish in Scholarly Journals

Music has often been used during painful medical procedures. A new study looked at the use of music during joint lavage to see if it would effect anxiety and pain. Continue reading →

Ginny is a Research Specialist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on the Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Team. Continue reading →

MTRB was pleased to record this podcast with Dr. Petra Kern, a clinician, researcher, and educator in music therapy. She is board certified in the U.S., Canada, and Germany and earned her doctorate in music therapy from the School of Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke. She received the 2008 national research/publications award of the American Music Therapy Association for her work with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Kern is an active speaker and has been published in Young Exceptional Children, Young Children, Children & Families, Teaching Young Children, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, Music Therapy Today, and imagine. She is the owner of the California-Based company Music Therapy Consulting. For more details, please visit her website at www.musictherapy.biz.

**NOTE, Podcast will be reposted soon**

Since 2005, the American Music Therapy Association and the Certification Board for Music Therapists have collaborated on a State Recognition Operational Plan. The primary purpose of this Plan is to get music therapy and our MT-BC credential recognized by individual states so that citizens can more easily access our services. The AMTA Government Relations staff and CBMT Regulatory Affairs staff provide guidance and technical support to state task forces throughout the country as they work towards state recognition. To date, their work has resulted in 35 active state task forces, 2 licensure bills passed in 2011, and an estimated 10 bills being filed in 2012 that seek to create either a music therapy registry or license for music therapy. This month, our focus is on YOU and on getting you excited about advocacy.

This podcast features Dr. Dena Register and Kimberly Sena Moore, who are the regulatory affairs team for CBMT.