Identifying the "active ingredients" in music therapy process using an exploratory application of the child psychotherapy Q-sort. Issue 1 (1st June 2016) - Roth, Katie
Abstract : Background : As a student on my second year field-learning placement, working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in a mainstream school, I became interested in finding a research instrument that would identify, and capture the complexity of, the "active ingredients" in the music therapy process, namely, child characteristics, therapist characteristics and characteristics of their interaction. Objective : To explore the application of the Child Psychotherapy Q-Sort (Schneider & Jones, 2004) to the process of Music Therapy. Methods : Rating of the 100 Child Psychotherapy Q-Sort (CPQ) items by experienced music therapists from various theoretical orientations, in order to construct a Music Therapy CPQ prototype. Comparison of this prototype with qualitative descriptive analyses of Music Therapy session videos. Discussion : This research is still in the data gathering stage. Discussion of results to follow. Conclusions : This research is still in the data gathering stage. Conclusions to follow.