Books we Love

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End

by Atul Gawande

Better IEPs: How to Develop Legally Correct and Educationally Useful Programs

by Barbara D. Bateman, Mary Anne Linden, Joan Donovan and Tom Kinney (2006)

Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism

by Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann

Defining Music Therapy

by Kenneth E. Bruscia

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

by Andrew Solomon

Ghost Boy

by Martin Pistorius

Hospice & Palliative Care Music Therapy: A Guide to Program Development and Clinical Care

By Russell Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC 

Music Therapy in Palliative Care: New Voices

Ed. by David Aldridge

Music Therapy in Special Education

by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins

The Parent's Guide To Down Syndrome: Advice, Information, Inspiration and Support in Raising Your Child from Diagnosis to Adulthood

by Mardra Sikora and Jen Jacob

Rex: A mother, her autistic child, and the music that transformed their lives

by Cathleen Lewis

Bibliography

Special Education

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Medicine

Annotated Bibliography of Research: 1992 - 2003

Reviews of Music Therapy in Medical Settings.

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    Standley, J.M. (1992). Meta analysis of research in music and medical treatment. Effect size as a basis for comparisons across multiple dependent and independent variables. In R. Spintge and R. Droh (Eds). Music Medicine, St Louis: MMB.

Music Therapy reduces pain.

    Colwell, C. (1997). Music as distraction and relaxation to reduce chronic pain and narcotic ingestion: A case study. Music Therapy Perspectives, 15, 24-31.

Edwards, J. (1998). Music therapy for children with severe burn injury. Music Therapy Perspectives, 16, 21-26.

    Fratianne R.B, Presner, J.D., Houston, M.J., Super, D.M., Yowler, C.J.& Standley, J.M. (2001). The effect of music – based imagery and musical alternate engagement on the burn debridement process. Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation. 22(1): 47-53

    Good, M., Anderson, G.C., Stanton-Hicks, M., Grass, J.A. & Makil, M. (2002). Relaxation and music reduce pain after gynecologic surgery. Pain Management Nursing, 3 (2): 61-70.

    Loewy, J. (1997). Music therapy pediatric pain management: Assessing and attending to the sounds of hurt, fear and anxiety. In J. Loewy (Ed.), Music Therapy and Pediatric Pain, (pp. 45-56). Jeffrey Books.

Music Therapy reduces physiological indicators of anxiety and reduces need for sedation and analgesia, increases completion rate, and shortens examination time during colonoscopy.

    Smolon, D., Topp, R. & Singer, L. (2002). The effect of self-selected music during colonoscopy on anxiety, heart, rate, and blood pressure. Applied Nursing Research. 15 (3): 126-36.

    Schiemann, U., Gross, M., Reuter, R. & Kellner, H. (2002). Improved procedure of colonoscopy under accompanying music therapy. European Journal of Medical Research. 7 (3): 131-4.

Music Therapy reduces physiological indicators of pre-operative stress.

    Miluk-Kolasa, B., Matejek, M. & Stupnicki R. (1996). The effects of music listening on changes in selected physiological parameters in adult pre-surgical patients. Journal of Music Therapy, 33, 208–218.

    Robb, S.L., Nichols R.J., Rutan R.L. & Bishop B.L. (1995). The effects of music assisted relaxation on preoperative anxiety. Journal of Music Therapy, 32, 2–21.

Music Therapy reduces cortisol in healthy adults.

    McKinney, C.H., Antoni, M.H., Kumar, M., Tims, F.C. & McCabe, P.M. (1997). Effects of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Therapy on mood and cortisol in healthy adults. Health Psychology 16 (4). 390–400.

Music Therapy reduces physiological and psychological indicators of distress in post– operative cardiac patients.

    Cadigan, M.E., Caruso, N.A., Halderman, S.M., McNamara, M.E., Noyes, D.A., Spadafora, M.A. & Carrol, D.L. (2001). The effect of music on cardiac patients on bed rest. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing. 16 (1): 5-13.

Engaging in group music therapy and listening to music reduces anxiety associated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

    Cai, G., Qiao, Y., Li, P., & Lu, L. (2001). Music therapy in treatment of cancer patients. Chinese Mental Health Journal, 15(3), 179-181.

    Harper, E.I. (2001). Reducing Treatment-Related Anxiety in Cancer Patients: Comparison of Psychological Interventions. Dissertation: Southern Methodist University,

USA. anxiety and side effects associated with chemotherapy. Cancer Nursing, 19(4), 283-289.

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Listening to music reduces nausea and emesis for patients receiving chemotherapy.

    Standley, J.M. (1992). Clinical applications of music and chemotherapy: The effects on nausea and emesis. Music Therapy Perspectives, 10, 27-35.

Participating in Music Therapy sessions increases comfort and motivates bone marrow transplant patients during treatment.

    Boldt, S. (1996). The effects of music therapy on motivation, psychological well- being, physical comfort, and exercise endurance of bone marrow transplant patients. Journal of Music Therapy, 33, 164-88.

Listening to music alleviates pain, fatigue, and anxiety of hospice cancer patients.

    Longfield, V. (1995). The effects of music therapy on pain and mood in hospice patients. Unpublished master’s thesis: Saint Louis University, USA.

Music Therapy serves to decrease behavioral distress among pediatric oncology patients during needle sticks.

    Malone, A. B. (1996). The effects of live music on the distress of pediatric patients receiving intravenous starts, venipunctures, injections, and heel sticks. Journal of Music Therapy, 33(1), 19-33.

Music provides an environment for engaging behaviors and decreasing distress behaviors for isolated pediatric oncology patients.

    Robb. S. L. (2000). The effect of therapeutic music interventions on the behavior of hospitalized children in isolation: developing a contextual support model of music therapy. Journal of Music Therapy, 37(2), 118-46.

Hospice

    Aldridge, D. (2003).  Music Therapy and Spirituality; A Transcendental Understanding of Suffering. Music Therapy Today (online), available at http://musictherapyworld.net.

    Bailey, L. M. (1983).  The Effects of Live Music versus Tape-Recorded Music on Hospitalized Cancer Patients.  Music Therapy, 3(1), 17-28.

    Groen, K. M.  (2007). Pain Assessment and Management in End of Life Care: A Survey of Assessment and Treatment Practices of Hospice Music Therapy and Nursing Professionals.  Journal of Music Therapy, 44(2), 90-112.

    Hilliard, R. E. (2003).  The Effects of Music Therapy on the Quality and Length of Life of People Diagnosed with Terminal Cancer.  Journal of Music Therapy, 40(2), 113-137.

    Hilliard, R. E. (2004).  A Post-Hoc Analysis of Music Therapy Services for Residents in Nursing Homes Receiving Hospice Care.  Journal of Music Therapy, 41(4), 266-281.

    Wlodarczyk, N.  (2007). The Effect of Music Therapy on the Spirituality of Persons in an In-Patient Hospice Unit as Measured by Self-Report.  Journal of Music Therapy, 44(2), 113-122.

    Zabin, A. H.  (2005). Lessons Learned from the Dying:  Stories from a Music Therapist.  Music Therapy Perspectives, 23(1), 70-75.