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Papers

(The median citation count of Nordic Journal of Music Therapy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Dementia-inclusive group-singing online during COVID-19: A qualitative exploration	20
Exploring Guided Imagery and Music as a well-being intervention: A systematic literature review	10
NICU music therapy and mother-preterm infant synchrony: A longitudinal case study in the South of Brazil	10
Effects of maternal singing during kangaroo care on maternal anxiety, wellbeing, and mother-infant relationship after preterm birth: a mixed methods study	10
Impact of COVID-19 on clinical research	8
Intimacy, mutuality & negotiations: Dialogic moments in joint improvisation	8
Musical pathways to the peer community: A collective case study of refugee children’s use of music therapy	7
The LongSTEP approach: Theoretical framework and intervention protocol for using parent-driven infant-directed singing as resource-oriented music therapy	7
Feasibility of emotion-regulating improvisational music therapy for young adult students with depressive symptoms: A process evaluation	7
Developing consensus description of group music therapy characteristics for persons with dementia	7
Embracing technological possibilities in the telehealth delivery of interactive music therapy	7
Evaluating feasibility of the LongSTEP (Longitudinal study of music therapy’s effectiveness for premature infants and their caregivers) protocol with a Polish cohort	7
Perspectives on musical competence for people with borderline personality disorder in group music therapy	6
Exploring the role and impact of group songwriting with multiple stakeholders in recovery-oriented mental health services	6
Professional entanglements: A qualitative systematic review of healthcare musicians’ work in somatic hospital wards	6
A musical improvisation framework for Shaping Interpersonal Trust	6
Replication of a course-based undergraduate research experience for music students	6
Together in song: Designing a singing for health group intervention for older people living in the community	5
Music-mechanisms at the core of music therapy: Towards a format for a description of music therapy micro-interventions	5
Structure, agency and community: Using online music gatherings to support social inclusion for people with disabilities in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
COME_IN: A qualitative framework for content, meanings and intersubjectivity in free dyadic improvisations	5
The inner music of analytical music therapy	4
The influences of inter music therapy on music therapists who experience it	4
Study protocol of the MUSED study: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the psychobiological effects of group music therapy in women with depression	4
Perceptions of mental health assessment and resource-oriented music therapy assessment in a child and youth mental health service	3

Where are the mixed methods research studies?	3
Monitoring variation to Guided Imagery and Music (GIM): Development of the GIM Treatment Fidelity Instrument	3
Reflecting on relational needs in the context of a global health crisis	3
Alliance building in music therapy for forensic psychiatric patients with schizophrenia. An exploratory case study research design	3
Yoik in Sami elderly and dementia care – a potential for culturally sensitive music therapy?	3
Music therapy as multiplicity: Implications for music therapy philosophy and theory	3
Research into increasing resilience in children with autism through music therapy: Statistical analysis of video data	3
Three aspects of dialogue in music therapy: A theoretical treatise	3
The effects of music listening on the management of pain in primary dysmenorrhea: A randomized controlled clinical trial	3
Therapist and individual experiences and perceptions of music therapy for adolescents who stutter: A qualitative exploration	3
Clinical teletraining in music therapy: Two educators’ perspectives	3
Transitioning to teletherapy during COVID-19	3
Institutional logics and the organizational context of music therapy	2
A response to Blauth and Oldfield’s “Research into increasing resilience in children with autism through music therapy: Statistical analysis of video data”	2
Respect-focused writing: An invitation to reflexivity in the use of terminology	2
Being a person who plays in a band rather than being a person with a mental illness playing in a band: A qualitative study of stigma in the context of music therapy in mental health aftercare	2
Music therapy spanning from NICU to home: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Israeli parents’ experiences in the LongSTEP Trial	2
A research-based map of music therapy in the Czech Republic: Comparisons with other arts therapies	2
Historical and contemporary perspectives on the development of analytical music therapy Training	2
Clinical applications of feminist music therapy: An overview of the literature	2
A theoretical framework for the use of music therapy in the treatment of selective mutism in young children: Multiple case study research	2
The application of the Music Therapy Visual Schedule Approach (MT-ViSA) within a group music therapy program	2
Shaping the digital space: Exploring relationships in online music therapy session delivery	2
Potential spaces: Supporting the development of relationships between classroom practitioners and children with complex needs in Belarus through music therapy consultation	2
“No, I Guess it’s kind of Sensitive” - Communication patterns in a music listening group with older men	2
Moments of fun: Narratives of children’s experiences of music therapy in mental health care	2
Musical improvisation: A mixed methods study on social interactions in younger and older adults	2
“The room is a mess”: Exploring the co-creation of space for attunement dynamics between an autistic child and a non-autistic music therapist	2
Scoping review and concept analysis of early adolescents’ emotional skills: Towards development of a music therapy assessment tool	2
Music therapy for children on the autism spectrum: Improved social interaction observed by multiple informants across different social contexts	1
Use of GIM to nurture self-compassion in a mental health nurse: A case study	1
Functional electrical stimulation+iPad-based music therapy for upper limb recovery after stroke: Study protocol for a mixed methods randomised controlled trial	1
Moving towards anti-oppressive practice in music therapy	1
Portuguese translation and cultural adaptation of the Music in Dementia Assessment Scales (MiDAS)	1
Buy that instrument: Graduating music therapists equip their imaginary music therapy room – theoretical and practical implications	1
The Dementia Coding System (DeCS): Development and initial evaluation of a coding system to assess positive, challenging, and music-related behaviors of people with dementia	1
Promoting emotional skills in early adolescents with mental health conditions in music therapy – a content analysis of focus group interviews	1
Growth	1
Encountering transgenerational trauma through analytical music therapy	1
Collective experiences in medical music therapy teams during COVID-19	1
The impact of imitation on engagement in minimally verbal children with autism during improvisational music therapy	1
Creating a prenatal song for an unborn infant during a music therapy program: A longitudinal and microanalytic case study from before birth to three months of age	1
Considering case formulation and decision-making processes in music therapy assessment and treatment planning	1
Music therapy in child welfare: Bridging provision, protection, and participation	1
The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music for family caregivers of people with dementia: A within subject feasibility study	1
Experiences of implementing treatment manuals: Clinician, supervisor, and researcher reflections	1
The crisis of the unacknowledged context	1
Nurturing our reflexivity	1
Music moves – Ettlingen dementia study: Protocol of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial	1
The research pipeline	1

International service-learning and intercultural competence of U.S. music therapists: Initial survey findings	1
Reviewers 2019 - 2020	0
Hope and change	0
Duet	0
Music therapy in a multicultural context: A handbook for music therapy students and professionals	0
Ethical thinking in music therapy. Second edition	0
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Women trainee therapists’ growth experiences during their Guided Imagery and Music qualification training in South Korea	0
Speaking for ourselves. Conversations on life, music, and autism	0
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Silent sounding: Communicability, musicality, and the use of music with nonspeaking individuals with cerebral palsies and multiple disabilities	0
Music therapy and autism across the lifespan: A spectrum of approaches	0
Listening to the rhythms of the unconscious in dreams	0
Validation of item pool for early adolescents’ emotional skills assessment in music therapy	0
Music therapy in children and young people’s palliative care	0
‘Getting to know you through music.’ Music therapists’ unique ways of ‘knowing’ their clients and our collective responsibilities to articulate our implicit knowledge	0
Music therapy assessments	0
Upcoming events	0
Self-care and creativity: A group therapeutic songwriting intervention protocol for caregivers of people with dementia	0
Understanding awareness of music therapy in parents of children with special needs in India: A survey study	0
Personalized audio montage: Impact of a receptive music therapy method-variation on youth experiencing homelessness	0
The impact of COVID-19 on music therapy provision in Dutch care homes	0
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Group music therapy for people living with mental health conditions in the community: A pilot longitudinal quantitative micro-analysis study	0
Synchronization during Improvised Active Music Therapy in clients with Parkinson’s disease	0
Small but important steps towards accessible publishing	0
Exploring parents’ musical agency in resource-oriented music therapy with their preterm infants in the NICU and at home	0
Exploring the lived experiences of young autistic adults in Nordoff-Robbins music therapy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	0
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Live and recorded music interventions for management of delirium symptoms in acute geriatric patients: Protocol for a randomized feasibility trial	0
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The use of voice in music therapy	0
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In memory of Wita Szulc	0
“Hallo” from a desolate road: Archetypal understanding of a Korean young man’s musical journey	0
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Trust development is essential in music therapy	0
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Trauma-informed music therapy: Theory and practice Trauma-informed music therapy: Theory and practice , edited by Laura E. Beer and Jacqueline C. Birnbaum, New York, NY,	0
Unleashing the potential of chaos: How music therapists and young people can engage chaos as a resource in short-term music therapy groups	0
Music of hate, music for healing: Paired stories from the hate music industry and the profession of music therapy	0
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Health care workers’ perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of music therapy within medication-free treatment services	0
Redirecting discourse in music therapy	0
Music therapists’ perceptions on their role and status in medical settings in France: A survey study	0
Three roads diverged: Transformative self-experience in AMT and GIM	0
Behind the scenes: About hidden support to reach one’s audience	0
Effects of group music therapy on symptoms and functional recovery in outpatients with chronic psychoses: A randomized controlled trial	0
Depressed adults’ experiences of listening to their own clinical improvisations at home: A process evaluation of the music therapy homework	0
Expansion of our Editorial Team	0
Inpatient stroke survivors with low gait functioning benefit from music interventions during cardiorespiratory exercise: A randomized cross-over trial	0
The effects of group music imagery for women with methamphetamine use disorder in compulsory rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial	0
Attunement in expressive arts therapy: Toward an understanding of embodied empathy (2nd edition)	0
Music therapy and social recovery in flexible assertive community treatment	0
Better together: Mentoring and teamwork in research and publishing	0
Rhythmic exercises as tools for rehabilitation following cerebellar stroke: A case study integrating music therapy and physiotherapy techniques	0
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Hope for in-person human connection in a virtual music therapy world	0
Understanding the impact of international music therapy student placements on music therapy practice and professional identity	0
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Foundational frameworks supporting selection of music and outcome measures in studies of cognition among older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI): An integrative review	0
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Conversations on echolalia: A qualitative inquiry into autistic adults’ views on echolalia, language, and music	0
The Music Therapy Studio: Empowering the soul’s truth	0
HOPE – The dream we carry	0
Challenges and innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international survey of music therapy educators	0
Relationship completion in palliative care music therapy	0
Reflective Lullaby Writing with two mother-infant dyads who recently experienced an admission to a neonatal intensive care unit	0
Music-oriented parent counseling to promote improvement in level of parental stress, quality of life and the use of music in everyday life among parents of children with autism: A mixed-methods random	0
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Neurological music therapy for poststroke depression, activity of daily living and cognitive function: A pilot randomized controlled study	0
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Enactivist music therapy: Toward theoretical innovation and integration	0