Derrington 2012 thesis.pdf - Anglia Ruskin Research Online

CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
This review begins by looking at the literature on adolescence (2.2) and youth at risk
(2.2.1) The general use of music and how adolescents respond to it, is the focus of
section 2.2.2 because music can play an important part in helping them through this
often difficult period of growing up. The role of music therapy is introduced in
settings other than schools (2.3) before a review of arts therapies in other settings
(2.4) and schools (2.5).
The review then concentrates on the music therapy literature in schools and is split
into three parts. Part I: work with students with learning disabilities in special schools
(2.6); II: work with students with emotional and behavioural difficulties in special
schools and specialist support units (2.7); III: work with youth at risk and disaffected
adolescents in mainstream schools (2.8). This final section looks at the music therapy
literature on youth at risk: who have emotional and behavioural difficulties and
therefore at risk of exclusion from school, to identify and define the gap in the
literature which this study hopes to address.
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For each section, texts and papers which focused on work with adolescents were
reviewed. Online sources included Google scholar, Wiley library, Music Therapy
World databases and conferences. Manually searched journals included the British
Journal of Music Therapy, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, The Arts in
Psychotherapy, Musiktherapeuticshe Umschau, Music Therapy Perspectives and
Music Therapy Today. Some sections in this review are divided into descriptive
articles, specific approaches and research projects. Much of the music therapy
literature is recent so, for this reason, literature up to September 2011 has been
included. Unless otherwise stated, the literature is from the UK.
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