Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Counselling Resource, Feb 2013 I really enjoyed this book as an opportunity to learn more about a field that is almost entirely unknown to me. If the book is anything to go by, the future of research into the interplay between music, health and wellbeing promises to be very interesting indeed.

PsycCritiques This book should be of general interest to all psychologists and, specifically, to music therapists and those with an interest in behavioral medicine. This volume is a useful compendium of a vast and diverse body of international research that is beginning to identify the mechanisms by which music has a profound effect on cognitive and emotional states.,, it contains many fascinating ideas.

Raymond MacDonald, School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK, Gunter Kreutz, Professor of Systematic Musicology, Department of Music, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany, Laura Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bishop's University, Canada Raymond MacDonald is Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing his PhD at the University of Glasgow, investigating therapeutic applications of music, he worked as Artistic Director for a music company, Sounds of Progress, specialising in working with people who have special needs. His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to improvisation, musical communication, music therapy, music education and musical identities. He has co-edited three texts with Dorothy Miell and David Hargreaves, Musical Identities (2002) and Musical Communication (2005) and Musical Imaginations (in press). He is currently Editor of the journal Psychology of Music and Associate Editor for The International Journal of Music Education, Jazz Research Journal and Research Studies in Music Education. As a composer and saxophonist he has recorded over 50 CDs and has toured and broadcast worldwide. Professor Kreutz is a trained musicologist with strong interest in how humans respond to music and vice versa, how music influences human cognition, emotion, and behaviour. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and co-edited three books. His contributions span different areas of music psychology with some emphasis on emotion, health, and wellbeing. His research has been supported by grants from institutions and societies including the German Research Council (DFG), British Academy and Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Society fur Music in Medicine. Laura Mitchell is a health psychologist specialising in the use of music in self-regulation of health, emotions and wellbeing, with particular interest in music as part of pain management. Following completion of her PhD funded by the Scottish Network for Chronic Pain Research, she has held positions as Reader at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK and Visiting Professor at McGill University in Canada, with her research funded by the British Pain Society and Wingate Scholarships. Her current position is part of the psychological health and wellbeing research group at Bishop's University in Quebec.

SECTION 1 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS ; 1. What is Music Health and Wellbeing and why is it important ; 2. Music, Brain and Health: Exploring Biological Foundations of Music's Health Effect ; 3. Why Music Matters: Philosophical and Cultural Foundation ; 4. Music Therapy: model and interventions ; SECTION 2: COMMUNITY MUSIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH ; 5. Developing social models for research and practice in music, arts and health: a case study of research in a mental health setting ; 6. Community music and social/health psychology: linking theoretical and practical concerns ; 7. The new Heaths Musicians ; 8. Musical Flourishing: Community Music Therapy, Controversy and the Cultivation of Wellbeing ; 9. Singing, Wellbeing and Health ; 10. Dance and Health: Exploring interactions and implications ; 11. Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and dancing for quality of life and wellbeing benefit ; SECTION 3 CLINICAL AND THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS ; 12. Music and Rehabilitation: Neurological Approaches ; 13. The religion of Evidence-based practice: Helpful or harmful to health and well-being? ; 14. Health Musicking - A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance ; 15. Between Beats: group music therapy transforming people and places ; 16. Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK: Similarities and Differences from Music Therapy ; 17. Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives ; 18. The use of music to aid recovery from chronic illness: evidence and arguments ; 19. Music as non-pharmacological pain management in clinics ; 20. Clinical Uses of Music in Operating Theatres ; SECTION 4 EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS ; 21. Songs without words: Exploring how music can serve as a proxy language in social interaction with autistic children ; 22. Cognitive performance after listening to music: A review of the Mozart effect ; 23. Music instruction and children's intellectual development: The educational context of music participation ; 24. Health Promotions in Higher Music Education ; 25. Music Making as Lifelong Development and Resource for Health ; 26. Music education and therapy for children and young people with cognitive impairments: reporting on a decade of research ; SECTION 5: EVERYDAY USES ; 27. Music, Subjective Well-being, and Health: The Role of Everyday Emotions ; 28. Epidemiological studies of the relationship between musical experiences and public health ; 29. The brain and positive biological effects in healthy and clinical populations ; 30. Psychoneuroendocrine research on music: An overview ; 31. Cross Cultural Approaches to Music and Health ; 32. The Effects of Background Music on Health and Wellbeing ; 33. North Pop Music Subcultures and Well-Being ; 34. Music Listening and Mental Health: Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology