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An arts-informed study: developing my identity as a new music therapist during the COVID-19 crisis

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Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Music
 Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
 Music therapists -- Study and teaching
 Music therapists -- Training of
 Psychotherapy and music
 Music -- Psychological aspects
 Identity (Psychology)
 COVID-19 (Disease) -- United States
 COVID-19 (Disease) -- Psychological aspects
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2021-01
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This arts-informed, first-person study examines the growth I have achieved as a new music therapist in vocal psychotherapy training, in my own personal therapy, and as a healthcare worker during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data in this study includes (a) poems I wrote based on these experiences, (b) an analysis of musical improvisations based on these experiences, and (c) the personal excerpts of my clinical experiences, and of my experiences creating these poems and musical improvisations. Through the analysis of the data, eight themes were identified: vocal psychotherapy - reflection, growth, and joy; personal therapy - apprehension, reflection, belonging, and growth; COVID-19 - fear, confusion, and chaos. These themes provide insight into my development as a new music therapy professional with generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety over the course of a year.
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