- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1 What is <i>Music, Health, and Wellbeing</i> and Why is it Important?
- Chapter 2 Music, Brain, and Health: Exploring Biological Foundations of Music’s Health Effects
- Chapter 3 Why Music Matters: Philosophical and Cultural Foundations
- Chapter 4 Music Therapy: Models and Interventions
- Chapter 5 Developing Social Models for Research and Practice in Music, Arts, and Health: A Case Study of Research in a Mental Health Setting
- Chapter 6 Community Music and Social/Health Psychology: Linking Theoretical and Practical Concerns
- Chapter 7 The New Health Musicians
- Chapter 8 Musical Flourishing: Community Music Therapy, Controversy, and the Cultivation of Wellbeing
- Chapter 9 Singing, Wellbeing, and Health
- Chapter 10 Dance and Health: Exploring Interactions and Implications
- Chapter 11 Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit
- Chapter 12 Music and Rehabilitation: Neurological Approaches
- Chapter 13 The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?
- Chapter 14 Health Musicking: A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance
- Chapter 15 Between Beats: Group Music Therapy Transforming People and Places
- Chapter 16 Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the UK: Similarities and Differences from Music Therapy
- Chapter 17 Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives
- Chapter 18 The Use of Music in Chronic Illness: Evidence and Arguments
- Chapter 19 Music as Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Clinics*
- Chapter 20 Clinical Use of Music in Operating Theatres
- Chapter 21 Songs Without Words: Exploring How Music Can Serve as a Proxy Language in Social Interaction with Autistic Children
- Chapter 22 Cognitive Performance After Listening to Music: A Review of the Mozart Effect
- Chapter 23 Music Instruction and Children’s Intellectual Development: The Educational Context of Music Participation
- Chapter 24 Health Promotion in Higher Music Education
- Chapter 25 Music-Making as a Lifelong Development and Resource for Health
- Chapter 26 Music Education and Therapy for Children and Young People with Cognitive Impairments: Reporting on a Decade of Research
- Chapter 27 Music, Subjective Wellbeing, and Health: The Role of Everyday Emotions
- Chapter 28 Epidemiological Studies of the Relationship Between Musical Experiences and Public Health
- Chapter 29 The Brain and Positive Biological Effects in Healthy and Clinical Populations
- Chapter 30 Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview
- Chapter 31 Cross-Cultural Approaches to Music and Health
- Chapter 32 The Effects of Background Music on Health and Wellbeing
- Chapter 33 Pop Music Subcultures and Wellbeing
- Chapter 34 Music Listening and Mental Health: Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology
- Author Index
- Subject Index
The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?
The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?
- Chapter:
- Chapter 13 The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?
- Source:
- Music, Health, and Wellbeing
- Author(s):
Tony Wigram
Christian Gold
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter begins by outlining the challenges of preparing a chapter on evidence-based practice (EBP) to underpin the use of music as a therapeutic tool in treatment, in the overall frame of music, health, and wellbeing. It then reviews the terminology of EBP and evidence-based medicine, and discusses autism spectrum disorders and EBP. The chapter concludes that, based on last sixty years of the development of music therapy as a recognized and relevant intervention, there is no doubt that the honeymoon period is over, and EBP is here to stay. Despite examples of attrition in music therapy practice as health, education, and social services tighten their belts and the demand on their resources grows, there is increasing interest in the value of music for health and wellbeing, despite even less ‘hard’ evidence that it is effective against illness and disability.
Keywords: evidence-based practice, music therapy, autism spectrum disorders
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1 What is <i>Music, Health, and Wellbeing</i> and Why is it Important?
- Chapter 2 Music, Brain, and Health: Exploring Biological Foundations of Music’s Health Effects
- Chapter 3 Why Music Matters: Philosophical and Cultural Foundations
- Chapter 4 Music Therapy: Models and Interventions
- Chapter 5 Developing Social Models for Research and Practice in Music, Arts, and Health: A Case Study of Research in a Mental Health Setting
- Chapter 6 Community Music and Social/Health Psychology: Linking Theoretical and Practical Concerns
- Chapter 7 The New Health Musicians
- Chapter 8 Musical Flourishing: Community Music Therapy, Controversy, and the Cultivation of Wellbeing
- Chapter 9 Singing, Wellbeing, and Health
- Chapter 10 Dance and Health: Exploring Interactions and Implications
- Chapter 11 Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit
- Chapter 12 Music and Rehabilitation: Neurological Approaches
- Chapter 13 The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?
- Chapter 14 Health Musicking: A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance
- Chapter 15 Between Beats: Group Music Therapy Transforming People and Places
- Chapter 16 Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the UK: Similarities and Differences from Music Therapy
- Chapter 17 Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives
- Chapter 18 The Use of Music in Chronic Illness: Evidence and Arguments
- Chapter 19 Music as Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Clinics*
- Chapter 20 Clinical Use of Music in Operating Theatres
- Chapter 21 Songs Without Words: Exploring How Music Can Serve as a Proxy Language in Social Interaction with Autistic Children
- Chapter 22 Cognitive Performance After Listening to Music: A Review of the Mozart Effect
- Chapter 23 Music Instruction and Children’s Intellectual Development: The Educational Context of Music Participation
- Chapter 24 Health Promotion in Higher Music Education
- Chapter 25 Music-Making as a Lifelong Development and Resource for Health
- Chapter 26 Music Education and Therapy for Children and Young People with Cognitive Impairments: Reporting on a Decade of Research
- Chapter 27 Music, Subjective Wellbeing, and Health: The Role of Everyday Emotions
- Chapter 28 Epidemiological Studies of the Relationship Between Musical Experiences and Public Health
- Chapter 29 The Brain and Positive Biological Effects in Healthy and Clinical Populations
- Chapter 30 Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview
- Chapter 31 Cross-Cultural Approaches to Music and Health
- Chapter 32 The Effects of Background Music on Health and Wellbeing
- Chapter 33 Pop Music Subcultures and Wellbeing
- Chapter 34 Music Listening and Mental Health: Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology
- Author Index
- Subject Index