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Supportive music experiences delivered in Latrobe, for all ages and abilities. AMTA Member #804

09/09/2025

Being evidence-based at Arc, today, the 9th of September 2025, means:

1. Taking a look at the previous notes I have written for today's clients, and using that evidence to decide on how I can approach today's sessions. 🗂
2. Recording today's clinical notes, including both quantitative and qualitative data.📝📈
3. Revisiting a clinical book ("Receptive Music Therapy" by Grocke and McFerran) to plan for a group next week. 📚
4. Having a look at AMTA's 2025 conference program, to see what presentations might be most relevant to my practice.🪜👥️
5. Noticing and bookmarking a recent article published in Voices: A World Forum For Music Therapy, on the use of music therapy after foster care placement. I'm following the work of one particular author, whose work and research with families is very informative. 📊📋

29/08/2025

Part 1 of several!

Being evidence-based at Arc means, firstly, having a good understanding of what evidence is, and how it works.

What do I mean by this?

The tertiary training involved in becoming a music therapist, means that we know how to a) find, b) understand, c) critique, and d) apply different types of evidence to the work we are doing. Clinical texts, peer-reviewed research from Cochrane reviews to case studies, conference papers and presentations, case notes, reports and evaluations from different professionals and organisations, observations shared by clients, research currently underway, assessment results… there are many different forms that evidence takes. Being able to understand their potential strengths and limits, and how they will and will not apply to what you're doing as a practitioner, takes specialist knowledge and is key to operating an evidence-based practice.

15/08/2025

Welcome to our series on evidence-based practice!

AMTA's Disability Evidence Summary, published in 2024, is a fantastic resource for understanding the peer-reviewed evidence for music therapy in disability.

This document refers to and summarises no less than 154 peer-reviewed studies on music therapy (and that's JUST in the context of disability!), including Cochrane reviews, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and qualitative studies.

Find it here: https://www.austmta.org.au/news-item/17051/new-report-highlights-benefits-of-music-therapy

11/08/2025

Welcome to our series on Evidence-Based Practice!

Often, this phrase is thrown around a little bit - "evidence-based". I am glad to be able to tell you that it actually means something specific in healthcare, including music therapy.

In healthcare, one model of expertise and evidence-based practice is the 'three pillars'. It originates from work done by Sackett et. al. (1996). The three pillars which guide practitioners, including music therapists and other allied health professionals, are:

1. Clinical expertise: The judgment, specialist knowledge, and experience of the practitioner. Registered music therapists have specialist tertiary training (in our case, a Masters degree), and undertake yearly Professional Development, to ensure this pillar is upheld throughout our profession.

2. Best external evidence: Research which has already been done elsewhere, which can be applied. In music therapy, this evidence base is really strong, with decades of peer-reviewed studies to draw evidence from, and there is new research being completed all the time across the world.

3. Client values and expectations: Everyone is different, everyone will be supported in different ways, and in music therapy, everyone has a different relationship with music.

These three pillars are all equally important and inform each other throughout the therapeutic process.

Get in touch here: https://www.arcmusictherapy.com/contact

07/08/2025

Welcome to our new series: Evidence-Based Practice!

Music therapy is an evidence-based practice and profession. But, what does that actually mean? Over the next few weeks we will explore this: what evidence-based practice is, how it works, and why it's important. There's a lot to cover!

Get in touch here: https://www.arcmusictherapy.com/contact

28/07/2025

Development, development, development!

We often think of development as something happening to babies and children, but development is happening over the course of our entire lives. Your music therapist at Arc is working with this in mind: Everybody has developmental capacity. No ifs or buts. Everybody has possibility ahead, and we can all change.

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25/07/2025

Welcome back to our series on development!

Registered music therapists have specialist tertiary training in the ways that music changes things, the factors that can influence those changes, and the impact that can have on a life.

An individuals' development can be the starting point: what's accessible to them, and what's supportive? What is developmentally a bit of a push, and what is going to be super comfortable?

Some musical experiences include playing instruments, singing, listening to music, and songwriting. But...how and when to use them? That's one of the questions your music therapist will be asking at all times.

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23/07/2025

Welcome back to our developmental lens series!

Have you ever seen a baby respond to their parent's sing-song voice?
Have you seen a parent get their toddler to do something by singing and dancing the task out?
Have you seen a class of children stop to copy back a clapping pattern from their teacher?
Have you seen an older person enjoy music from their youth?

Music has the power to recruit so, so, so much of our brain.

For example (and just for starters!), the motor cortex might get our feet tapping and head nodding, while our auditory system processes sound, while our memory takes us back to that one time we saw this artist live 20 years ago and we can suddenly visualise and smell the venue, while back in the present we watch somebody else dance along and copy their movements, as we listen to and process the lyrics in our language centre, and sing along. That's a lot to keep track of and participate in!

With music the brain is wiring and firing across the board. In music therapy this can be used intentionally to support someone to maintain, increase, or explore the possibilities around their capacities.

Get in touch here: https://www.arcmusictherapy.com/contact

21/07/2025

Welcome back to our development series!

Humans are incredibly resilient and we are learning all the time. However, to reach new dimensions in our life experiences, we need:

✅To feel safe
✅To be invited and supported by others
✅To be somewhere that offers us opportunity for enrichment

Another way to think about this: Every person, to continue their development across their lifespan, needs access to the right conditions.

For some people in their music therapy journey, this will look like the actual sessions being tailored to their needs and preferences. For others, it will look like their therapist providing strategies to another professional, or to a parent, or to the people living in the same place.

Get in touch here: https://www.arcmusictherapy.com/contact

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