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Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice, November 2016
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Title
Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery
Published in
Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13612-016-0048-0
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Rosie Perkins, Sara Ascenso, Louise Atkins, Daisy Fancourt, Aaron Williamon

Abstract

While music-making interventions are increasingly recognised as enhancing mental health, little is known of why music may engender such benefit. The objective of this article is to elucidate the features of a programme of group drumming known to enable mental health recovery. Qualitative research was conducted with 39 mental health patients and carers who had demonstrated recovery following engagement with a programme of group djembe drumming in the UK. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews and focus group interviews designed to understand the connection between drumming and recovery and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results revealed three overarching features of the drumming intervention: (1) the specific features of drumming, including drumming as a form of non-verbal communication, as a connection with life through rhythm, and as a grounding experience that both generates and liberates energy; (2) the specific features of the group, including the group as a space of connection in and through the rhythmic features of the drumming, as well as facilitating feelings of belonging, acceptance, safety and care, and new social interactions; (3) the specific features of the learning, including learning as an inclusive activity in which the concept of mistakes is dissolved and in which there is musical freedom, supported by an embodied learning process expedited by the musical facilitator. The findings provide support for the conceptual notion of 'creative practice as mutual recovery', demonstrating that group drumming provides a creative and mutual learning space in which mental health recovery can take place.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 120 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 17%
Student > Bachelor 21 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Researcher 6 5%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 38 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 23 19%
Social Sciences 14 12%
Arts and Humanities 13 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 9%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 42 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 March 2023.
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