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Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy:

A Monograph Series

(ISSN: 1559-7326)

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Volume Seven: 2012 (Edited by Laurel Young).

Front Matter and Editor’s Introduction

Monograph 1: Wagner, H., The Use of Music and Mandala to Explore the Client-Therapist Relationship in a Therapeutic Day School. pp. 1-32.

Monograph 2: Young, L. Client Experiences in Postlude Discussion in Guided Imagery and Music, pp.33-70.

Monograph 3: Zanders, M., The Musical and Personal Biographies of Adolescents with Foster Care Experience, pp. 71-109.

Volume Six: 2011 (Edited by Susan Gardstrom).

Front Matter

Monograph 1: Gonzalez, P., The Impact of Music Therapists’ Music Cultures on the Development of their Professional Identities, pp. 1–33.

Monograph 2: Summer, L., Client Perspectives on the Music in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), pp. 34–74.

Monograph 3: Bullard, E. Music Therapy as an Intervention for Inpatient Treatment of Suicidal Ideation, pp. 75–121.

Monograph 4: O’Grady, L., The Therapeutic Potentials of Creating and Performing Music with Women in Prison: A Qualitative Study, pp. 122–152.

Monograph 5: Elwafi, P., The Impact of Music Therapists’ Religious Beliefs on Clinical Identity and Professional Practice, p. 155–191.

• Volume Five: 2010 (Edited by Susan Hadley).

Front Matter and Editor’s Introduction

Monograph 1: McFerran, K., Tipping the Scales: A Substantive Theory on the Value of Group Music Therapy for Supporting Grieving Teenagers, pp. 1–42.

Monograph 2: Kwan, M., Music Therapist’s Experiences with Adults in Pain: Implications for Clinical Practice, pp. 43–85.

Monograph 3: Cooper, M., Clinical-Musical Responses of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapists: The Process of Clinical Improvisation, pp. 86–115. 

Monograph 4: Turry, A., Integrating Musical and Psychotherapeutic Thinking: Research on the Relationship between Words and Music in Clinically Improvised Songs, pp. 116–172.

Monograph 5: Sorel, S. Presenting Carly and Elliott: Exploring Roles and Relationships in a Mother-Son Dyad in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, pp. 173–238.

Volume Four: 2008 (Edited by Susan Hadley).

Front Matter and Editor’s Introduction

Monograph 1: Kim, S. The Supervisee’s Experience in Cross-Cultural Music Therapy Supervision, pp. 1–44.

Monograph 2: Zanders, M., Metaphors Clients Use to Describe their Experiences in BMGIM, pp. 45–68.

Monograph 3: Muller, B., A Phenomenological Investigation of the Music Therapist’s Experience of Being Present to Clients, pp. 69–112.

Monograph 4: Amir, D., & Yair, M., When the Piano Talks: Finding Meaning in Piano Improvisations Created by Three Children at Risk who Live in Residential Care, pp. 113–166.

  • Volume Three: 2007 (Edited by Anthony Meadows).

Front Matter and Editor’s Introduction

Monograph 1: Eyre, L., Changes in Images, Life Events, and Music in Analytical Music Therapy: A Reconstruction of Mary Priestley’s Case Study of “Curtis,” pp. 1–30. Audio Files:

Monograph 2: Murphy, K., Experiential Learning in Music Therapy: Faculty and Student Perspectives, pp. 31–61.

Monograph 3: Keith, D., Understanding Music Improvisations: A Comparison of Methods of Meaning-Making, pp. 62–102.

Monograph 4: Sokira, J. Interpreting the Communicative Behaviors of Clients with Rett Syndrome in Music Therapy, pp. 103–131.

Monograph 5: Bonde, L. O., Imagery, Metaphor, and Perceived Outcome in Six Cancer Survivors’ BMGIM Therapy, pp. 132–164.

• Volume Two: 2005 (Edited by Anthony Meadows).

Front Matter and Editor’s Introduction

Monograph 1: Bruscia, K. Abbott, E., Cadesky, N., Condron, D., Hunt, A., Miller, D, and Thomae, L., A Collaborative Heuristic Analysis of Imagery-M: A Classical Music Program Used in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, pp. 1–35.

Monograph 2: Abbott, E., Client Experiences in Music in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, pp. 36-61.

Monograph 3: Brescia, T., A Qualitative Study of Intuition as Experienced and Used by Music Therapists, pp. 62–112.

 • Volume One: 2004 (Edited by Brian Abrams).

Front Matter and Editor’s Introduction

Monograph 1: Racette, K., A Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Listening to Music When Upset, pp. 1–18.

Monograph 2: Comeau, P., A Phenomenological Investigation of Being Effective as a Music Therapist, pp. 19–36.

Monograph 3: Marom, M., Spiritual Moments in Music Therapy: A Qualitative Study of the Music Therapist’s Experience, pp. 37–76.

Monograph 4: Gardstrom, S., An Investigation of Meaning in Clinical Music Improvisation with Troubled Adolescents, pp. 77–160. Audio Files:

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(ISSN 1057-4263)

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Volume 2, Number 1 (1993)

Volume 2, Number 2 (1993)

Volume 3, Number 1 (1994)

Volume 4, Number 1 (1995)

Volume 4, Number 2 (1996)

Volume 5, Number 1 (1997)

Volume 5, Number 2 (1997) 

Volume 6, Number 1 (1998)

Volume 6, Number 2 (1999)