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Sabbatella, Patricia: The process of Evaluation in Music Therapy
represents the highest concentration of respondents with 48 (43.2%). Table
3 summarises data for client groups respondents worked with.
Autism
CLIENT GROUP
Disability
Nº of
Respondents
35
18
%
29.4
15.1
Mental Health 13 11
Communication
disorder
Neurotic
Elderly
Medicine
Neurology
Sensory impairment
Total
2. Methodology of Clinical Practice
11
11
10
9
9
7
119
9.2
9.2
8.4
7.6
5.9
4.2
100
Table 3: Client groups respondents worked with
About session format, 84.9% of respondents work in group sessions; 65.3% in
individual sessions; 14.4% in family sessions and 8.5% in dyadic sessions.
The main media used are percussion instruments, voice, and body. More
frequently techniques used are listening to music (78.5%), instrumental
improvisation (70.5%), body movement with music (65.2%), combined
listening with verbalisation (61.6%) and vocal improvisation (58.5%).
Theoretical orientation vary according the country, in Argentine, Brazil,
Colombia, Chile, Peru, Portugal and Uruguay, Psychoanalytic approach and
Existential and Humanistic schools are most frequently. In Spain there is not
unifying school of practice.
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