The Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy: Developing a shared research agenda in mental health

McCaffrey, Tríona, Carr, Catherine E., Solli, Hans Petter Paulen, Bent, Cornelia, Boyle, Darmuid, Dypvik, Oda Bjørke, Dybdahl, Kenneth, Hayes, Tommy, Hickling, Lauren M., Fernandez, Jane, Malerbakken, Anne, Ruddy, Brendan and Vågan, Torgrim (2024) The Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy: Developing a shared research agenda in mental health. Voices, 24 (2). ISSN 1504-1611

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Abstract

The mental health recovery movement recognises the importance of expertise by experience held by service users alongside healthcare practitioners. Recovery has gained attention in music therapy but a situation prevails where practitioners and researchers set research agendas. A group of music therapists recognised the absence of service user voices in music therapy research, and in 2017 they established a network called the Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy (ARRIMT). In 2020, they started to develop a multi-national platform to explore mental health recovery in relation to research. Service users and music therapists were invited from three countries including Ireland, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK). Local meetings were held to introduce stakeholders from each country, followed by three online meetings. Music was central to each meeting and each built upon content from previous meetings. Our conversations opened up new possibilities for working together. Four priorities for practice and research were identified: Music as a connector; music between sessions; music technology; and, online music therapy. This report will share our process and what we learnt from working together. We contextualise our work within concepts of foregrounding and mattering and view this work as a crucial step towards meaningful co-production. We reflect upon the role of music in building group identity alongside the importance of careful curation. Finally, we present ideas for future music therapy and mental health research.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding information: We acknowledge with gratitude, funding for this work which was provided by the Music Therapy Charity Small Grants Scheme, UK.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Related URLs:	https://voices.no/index.php/voices/artic...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2025 14:30
Last Modified:	10 Mar 2025 01:07
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98659
DOI:	10.15845/voices.v24i2.3848

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