Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

Table 8. 6 The use of supportive and challenging music in the sessions.
Supportive music selections Mixed supportive/challenging
selections
Client: SA WI AN PI IN ES SA WI AN PI IN
Sess. #
AA FU HO JØ LA MA AA FU HO JØ LA
ES
MA
Challenging music selections
1 2 4 4 1 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 6 6 3 6 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
3 6 2 1 5 2 3 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
4 1 1 5 4 7 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0
5 1 3 5 7 5 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0
6 5 4 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 0
7 3 1 0 4 2 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 2 1
8 3 2 0 3 0 2 2 0 1 2 2 1 2 4 0 0 2 0
9 4 2 2 3 4 2 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 3
10 1 2 3 0 5 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 4 1 1 2 1 1
Total 32 27 24 35 33 26 11 9 8 16 10 11 11 12 10 7 8 5
1-4 15 13 13 16 16 7 4 6 2 6 4 5 3 1 5 2 1 0
4-7 10 9 11 17 15 10 6 3 1 7 3 6 4 5 2 4 5 1
7-10 11 7 5 10 11 8 4 3 6 6 5 3 6 10 4 2 5 5
1-4 15 13 13 16 16 7 4 6 2 6 4 5 3 1 5 2 1 0
5-7 9 8 6 13 8 8 4 1 0 5 2 4 2 4 1 3 4 1
8-10 8 6 5 6 9 5 3 2 6 5 4 2 6 7 4 2 3 4
Table 8.6 gives an overview of the music selections used in all sessions, categorized
into three types: 1. Predominantly supportive selections; 2. Selections with both
supportive and challenging episodes; 3. Predominantly challenging selections.
Principles for this categorization and its validation were given in the method section.
The grid shows clearly – no matter whether the segmentation Sessions 1-4, 4-7, 7-10
or 1-4, 5-7, 8-10 is chosen – that the use of supportive music dominates in the first
(early segment), while the use of challenging music increases during the process and
culminates in the third (latest) segment. There are individual differences between the
six participants, however the tendency is clear.
Figure 8.12 shows how the three types were distributed in each of the ten session
rounds.
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