TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconceptualizing Music Therapy in Acute Mental Health Settings Part II
T2 - Clinical Applications of Single-Session Therapy
AU - Silverman, Michael J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - By championing the strengths, resources, and resilience of service users and increasing treatment access while limiting costs, single-session therapy (SST) represents a collaborative, direct, and transparent approach to providing treatment. In SST, service users have active and empowered roles in determining the focus, solutions, and extent of the therapy. SST practitioners note that all circumstances, settings, and contexts are unique and thus provide service users with autonomy to help them address the concerns that brought them to seek treatment. In Part II, I describe various ways to implement SST for music therapy clinicians in acute mental health settings. As Carr et al. (2013) noted a need for a music therapy model in acute mental health settings, I highlight Soo-Hoo’s (2018) Strength-Based Multicultural Integrative Therapy model as a potential therapeutic framework. To help music therapists apply aspects of SST to their clinical practice, I also provide questions for therapists to use in SST, describe how to conclude SST, provide suggestions for single-session group music therapy and other applications of single-session therapy in music therapy, and conclude with a critical reflection of SST.
AB - By championing the strengths, resources, and resilience of service users and increasing treatment access while limiting costs, single-session therapy (SST) represents a collaborative, direct, and transparent approach to providing treatment. In SST, service users have active and empowered roles in determining the focus, solutions, and extent of the therapy. SST practitioners note that all circumstances, settings, and contexts are unique and thus provide service users with autonomy to help them address the concerns that brought them to seek treatment. In Part II, I describe various ways to implement SST for music therapy clinicians in acute mental health settings. As Carr et al. (2013) noted a need for a music therapy model in acute mental health settings, I highlight Soo-Hoo’s (2018) Strength-Based Multicultural Integrative Therapy model as a potential therapeutic framework. To help music therapists apply aspects of SST to their clinical practice, I also provide questions for therapists to use in SST, describe how to conclude SST, provide suggestions for single-session group music therapy and other applications of single-session therapy in music therapy, and conclude with a critical reflection of SST.
KW - acute care
KW - adult mental health
KW - mental illness
KW - music therapy
KW - single-session therapy
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U2 - 10.1093/mtp/miad019
DO - 10.1093/mtp/miad019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85207750024
SN - 0734-6875
VL - 42
SP - 189
EP - 197
JO - Music Therapy Perspectives
JF - Music Therapy Perspectives
IS - 2
ER -