Orange Bicycles—A Case Story
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, staff wellbeing has been an important issue in healthcare settings. However, reports of the contributions of music therapy to this context are rare. During my MA Music Therapy training, I was able to offer music therapy in an NHS Trust’s staff support service for health...
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, staff wellbeing has been an important issue in healthcare settings. However, reports of the contributions of music therapy to this context are rare. During my MA Music Therapy training, I was able to offer music therapy in an NHS Trust’s staff support service for healthcare workers who were burnt-out, depressed or anxious. In this paper I present a case story, focussing on one individual, “Violet,” and identify some of the significant moments in her therapy. From this story, it seems that music therapy can be a powerful way to support the wellbeing of staff, and this may be a rich new vein of work for music therapists to explore. While the Arts for the Blues was initially developed for psychoanalytic group work, this story shows how it has been successfully adapted for use in these one-to-one, active, improvisatory music therapy sessions. Indeed, the model allowed for the limited number of sessions offered in an NHS context to be fully used, and its ingredients contributed to significant moments of therapeutic change.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4f1655ec32da4c228071d06f7b03e9622025-08-20T03:30:36ZengGAMUT - Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (NORCE & University of Bergen)Voices1504-16112025-07-0125210.15845/voices.v25i2.4364Orange Bicycles—A Case StoryMarcus Bull0Student Music Therapist, University of South Wales, United Kingdom Since the COVID-19 pandemic, staff wellbeing has been an important issue in healthcare settings. However, reports of the contributions of music therapy to this context are rare. During my MA Music Therapy training, I was able to offer music therapy in an NHS Trust’s staff support service for healthcare workers who were burnt-out, depressed or anxious. In this paper I present a case story, focussing on one individual, “Violet,” and identify some of the significant moments in her therapy. From this story, it seems that music therapy can be a powerful way to support the wellbeing of staff, and this may be a rich new vein of work for music therapists to explore. While the Arts for the Blues was initially developed for psychoanalytic group work, this story shows how it has been successfully adapted for use in these one-to-one, active, improvisatory music therapy sessions. Indeed, the model allowed for the limited number of sessions offered in an NHS context to be fully used, and its ingredients contributed to significant moments of therapeutic change. https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/4364staff wellbeingdepressionanxietyburnoutArts for the Blues |
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