Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

The research project involves two phases:
Phase A started in June 2001 and terminated in July 2002. This period
involved:
• the formation of the research team;
• the definition of the research project;
• Co-regulation Coding System training with the group of decoder
music therapists;
• the creation of the research setting,
• starting up two cycles of sessions that terminated in June 2002;
• the application of the decoding system to music therapy sessions;
The aim of Phase A was to establish whether the Co-regulation Coding
System is applicable to music therapy sessions.
Phase B is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2004. Our aims
for this phase are:
• the completion of de-coding the two cycles of sessions performed in
phase A;
• to make an initial analysis of longitudinal data;
• to enlarge the group of music therapists/decoders and carry out new
training for new decoders;
• to organise six new session cycles;
• to decode the six session cycles;
• to make a statistical analysis of the longitudinal data;
• to perform an inter-dyadic evaluation of relational development in
music therapy.
The aim of Phase B is to use communication quality measurements to
measure any increase in periods of creativity in the communicative
process during the development of the relationship in music therapy.
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