E-Book of Articles - World Federation of Music Therapy

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
Sabbatella, Patricia: The process of Evaluation in Music Therapy
Supervision of clinical practice: includes
evaluation of client, music therapist, and music
therapy treatment process.
META-EVALUATION OF MUSIC THERAPY
Evaluation designs of music therapy
applications (programme evaluation, evaluation of
the processes of evaluation in music therapy,
institutional satisfaction, etc.)
Table 1: Areas of music therapy evaluation
The development of music therapy around the world has been linked with a
number of factors unique to each country. Literature review about
evaluation in music therapy shows a sharp contrast with reference to
production of information between Latin-American Spanish and Portugal
professional context and the North American and Western European
context.
In the words of Ruud (1998): "European music therapists have lately been
more concerned with doing research on their own clinical work... and
research is understood in a broad sense as a way of finding knowledge". If
we paraphrase the stated idea we can say that: music therapists from Latin
American countries, Spain and Portugal have been more concerned with
their clinical work than with research. This can be corroborated by a
bibliographical study on specific music therapy's topics where the majority
of the specific publications belong to authors from North-America, Western-
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