The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community
This case study describes how a music therapist (Stephen) and a music therapy intern (Sahitya) worked conjointly with a client and her granddaughter in a remote part of North India. The description provides a unique insight into conditions, culture, and lifestyle in this location, and how these two...
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This case study describes how a music therapist (Stephen) and a music therapy intern (Sahitya) worked conjointly with a client and her granddaughter in a remote part of North India. The description provides a unique insight into conditions, culture, and lifestyle in this location, and how these two clinicians were able to merge broader arts-based and holistic approaches, on a journey towards client-centered and functional neurologic music therapy exercises to help the client regain more independence. The background to initial work undertaken by the music therapist, which lasted for one year and eleven months, is followed by a summary of five weekly conjoint sessions with the intern, including the evolution of exercises, rationale, and client responses, illustrated with embedded video excerpts. The communication, relationship, and trust-building with the client and her granddaughter, together with the intern joining the dynamic, paved the way for assimilating music therapy theoretical models that were new to them, and adapting neurologic music therapy approaches using an electronic keyboard that incorporated preferred facilitating music. This resulted in greater client engagement with higher levels of motivation and adherence and increased hand use in daily activities.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9772225332174115b8138ed76990275f2025-02-08T15:03:32ZengGAMUT - Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (NORCE & University of Bergen)Voices1504-16112024-03-01241The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community Sahitya Rajagopal0Alex Street1Stephen W. Philip2Private Practice, DhrupadxAbleton (A music and sound integrated experience project), Delhi, IndiaCambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UKStrange Beautiful Music (formerly Grapefruit Music), Matli Village, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India This case study describes how a music therapist (Stephen) and a music therapy intern (Sahitya) worked conjointly with a client and her granddaughter in a remote part of North India. The description provides a unique insight into conditions, culture, and lifestyle in this location, and how these two clinicians were able to merge broader arts-based and holistic approaches, on a journey towards client-centered and functional neurologic music therapy exercises to help the client regain more independence. The background to initial work undertaken by the music therapist, which lasted for one year and eleven months, is followed by a summary of five weekly conjoint sessions with the intern, including the evolution of exercises, rationale, and client responses, illustrated with embedded video excerpts. The communication, relationship, and trust-building with the client and her granddaughter, together with the intern joining the dynamic, paved the way for assimilating music therapy theoretical models that were new to them, and adapting neurologic music therapy approaches using an electronic keyboard that incorporated preferred facilitating music. This resulted in greater client engagement with higher levels of motivation and adherence and increased hand use in daily activities. https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3724neurologic music therapy; community music therapy; ecological practices; integral thinking; jugaad |
| spellingShingle | Sahitya Rajagopal Alex Street Stephen W. Philip The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community Voices neurologic music therapy; community music therapy; ecological practices; integral thinking; jugaad |
| title | The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community |
| title_full | The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community |
| title_fullStr | The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community |
| title_short | The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community |
| title_sort | art and craft of music therapy for stroke rehabilitation in a remote north indian community |
| topic | neurologic music therapy; community music therapy; ecological practices; integral thinking; jugaad |
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