In perceiving all rap and hip-hop music as violent, misogynistic, and sexually charged, are we denying the way in which it is attentive to the lived experiences, both positive and negative, of many ...therapy clients? This question is explored in great depth in this anthology, the first to examine the use of this musical genre in the therapeutic context. The contributors are all experienced therapists who examine the multiple ways that rap and hip-hop can be used in therapy by listening and discussing, performing, creating, or improvising.The text is divided into three sections that explore the historical and theoretical perspectives of rap and hip-hop in therapy, describe the first-hand experiences of using the music with at-risk youth, and discuss the ways in which contributors have used rap and hip-hop with clients with specific diagnoses, respectively.Within these sections, the contributors provide rationale for the use of rap and hip-hop in therapy and encourage therapists to validate the experiences for those for whom rap music is a significant mode of expression. Editors Susan Hadley and George Yancy go beyond promoting culturally competent therapy to creating a paradigm shift in the field, one that speaks to the problematic ways in which rap and hip-hop have been dismissed as expressive of meaningless violence and of little social value. More than providing tools to incorporate rap into therapy, this text enhances the therapist's cultural and professional repertoire.
Sociocultural Identities in Music Therapy is a collection of personal narratives by 18 music therapists who engage in a critical culturally reflexive process and explore implications for their ...therapeutic practice. Amongst the authors, there is gender diversity, diversity of sexualities, racial diversity, ethnic diversity, neurodiversity, geographical diversity, linguistic diversity, educational diversity, and more. Each person's intersectional identity positions them differently in terms of their sociocultural location and thus each has differing experiences of unearned advantages or disadvantages based purely on their membership in various sociocultural groups in unique combinations. As such, each person distinctively explores how they experience and are experienced in social contexts. Woven together, this book is a rich tapestry of the sociocultural identities of music therapists and implications for their therapeutic relationships and processes. It provides a deep understanding and appreciation of the concept of culture and its omnipresence in all we do and all we are. The hope is that these narratives, and the included strategies for doing this kind of critical culturally reflexive work, will guide music therapy students and practitioners to examine their own sociocultural location and experiences, and that it will open music therapists to consider their relational dynamics in all aspects of their lives.
It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular patients or ...special clinical situations. IDSA considers adherence to these guidelines to be voluntary, with the ultimate determination regarding their application to be made by the physician in the light of each patient's individual circumstances.
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It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular patients or ...special clinical situations. IDSA considers adherence to these guidelines to be voluntary, with the ultimate determination regarding their application to be made by the physician in the light of each patient's individual circumstances.
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Myth of Political Neutrality Honig, Tim; Hadley, Susan
Voices : a world forum for music therapy,
03/2024, Volume:
24, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This editorial discusses the roles and meaning of the “political” in music therapy journals and publication processes and calls into question the value and expectation of political neutrality. It ...also outlines the articles included in the March 2024 issue.
The first book on the topic. Following an overview of different forms of feminism, and an introduction to feminism in music therapy, part one deals with the sociological implications of feminist ...worldviews of music therapy. Part 2 examines clinical work from a feminist perspective. Part 3 critically reflects on significant aspects of music therapy that relate to feminism, including the use of mother concepts, gender roles, gender messages in the song literature, the competitive separation of music therapy practices, and the representation of women in music, healthcare, and music therapy. Part 4 focuses on specific areas of training in music therapy from a feminist perspective including pedagogy, supervision, assessment, research, and ethics.
In the late 1990s, staphylococci with higher vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were seen with increasing frequency, with worse outcomes in those with MICs >=2 µg/mL.15-18 Although ...daptomycin is active against most strains of vancomycin-intermediate S aureus (VISA) and hetero-vancomycin-intermediate S aureus, cross-resistance has been reported.8,19-21 The observations that a laboratory mutant vancomycin-resistant S aureus isolate demonstrated a substantially reduced methicillin MIC and that clinical VISA strains showed increased susceptibility to methicillin led to the concept of the "seesaw effect": the more resistant the MRSA strain was to vancomycin, the more susceptible it was to β-lactams.22 Soon thereafter, increased β-lactam susceptibility in increasingly vancomycin-resistant isolates was reported in vivo.\n29 The lipopeptide daptomycin, when complexed with calcium, is similar to HDPs by virtue of its peptide content, positive charge, and mechanism of action targeting cellular membrane depolarization.29 Cross-resistance between daptomycin, and specific endovascular HDPs has been demonstrated in S aureus, suggesting that exposure to daptomycin induces resistance to HDPs.30 To determine whether exposure to HDPs contributes to resistance to daptomycin even before exposure to the drug, the same authors studied the "priming effects" of HDPs in the evolution of daptomycin resistance in isolates of S aureus from bacteremic patients without endocarditis.31 They showed higher daptomycin MICs among daptomycin-susceptible isolates from patients who had never received daptomycin, which suggests that resistance developed with endogenous exposure to the peptide. ...Dhand and Sakoulas38 summarize the published studies on the use of daptomycin in combination with β-lactams and other antibiotics for the treatment of resistant gram-positive infections, including MRSA.
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