Music therapy is widely portrayed either as a paramedical practice within which music is a technology applied as a form of treatment or as a form of psychotherapy within which the music plays a primarily symbolic role or acts as a lead in to verbal consideration of the patient’s presenting issues. Music therapy research currently focuses predominantly on demonstrating “evidence of effectiveness” in terms of symptomatic outcome, thus preserving a focus on the individual congruent with the medical model. In contrast, this thesis seeks to examine ethnographically the ways in which music therapy gets accomplished as a situated social practice within a community mental health resource centre in a UK urban area. Drawing both on the observations and experiences of the researcher (a music therapist already working within this setting) and on formal and informal interviews with the centre’s members and staff, it seeks to identify ways in which music therapy gets done and value ascribed to it. Observations are compared with the “norms” portrayed by dominant professional discourse, and reasons for discrepancies considered. Particular attention is paid to self-awareness, intimacy and conviviality as facets of what music therapy has to offer in such a setting, and to social capital theory and Goffman’s dramaturgical approach as broader conceptual frameworks for such affordances. Consideration is also given to the “fit” between the affordances of music itself, and the “craft” required of diverse actors in order that music therapy can be considered to offer an ecology which promotes health and well-being. Finally, the findings are re-addressed towards music therapy itself via the lens of what it means to be “clinical” in order that a sociological “craft” perspective maybe brought to bear within the discipline.

Submitted by Ana Carla Almeida (ana.almeida@ucsal.br) on 2016-09-26T19:11:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AMORIM, RC-2016.pdf: 4512463 bytes, checksum: 1bad1a17cec6ba485ce3300488e7745e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Emília Carvalho Ribeiro (maria.ribeiro@ucsal.br) on 2016-09-29T22:12:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AMORIM, RC-2016.pdf: 4512463 bytes, checksum: 1bad1a17cec6ba485ce3300488e7745e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-29T22:12:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AMORIM, RC-2016.pdf: 4512463 bytes, checksum: 1bad1a17cec6ba485ce3300488e7745e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-12 / A presente pesquisa visa compreender a vivência do adoecimento e da hospitalização para o grupo familiar, a partir dos seus integrantes e dos/as trabalhadores/as de saúde que desenvolvem atividade de cuidado na clínica médica de um hospital público do interior da Bahia. Ancorada numa perspectiva interdisciplinar, a pesquisa segue uma abordagem qualitativa, centrada em observações participantes, entrevistas e escuta sensível que deram suporte à realização de uma etnografia das interações na clínica médica. Participaram 14 famílias e 17 trabalhadores/as da clínica, sendo incluídos familiares acompanhantes que exerciam a atividade, a partir de 48 horas na clínica, e excluídos familiares acompanhantes que recebiam proventos e cuidadores particulares. As observações foram realizadas no hall do hospital, no corredor, no posto de enfermagem e nas enfermarias, totalizando oito meses de observação sistemática. Os dados coletados foram tratados metodológica e epistemologicamente como narrativas, dentro de uma perspectiva biográfica, a partir da combinação de informações obtidas, originando as “narrativas das narrativas”. Foi possível a sustentação do enfoque biográfico na (re)elaboração narrativa dos dados coletados, evidenciado pela experiência vivenciada de modo inteiro. Como resultados da etnografia e a partir da compreensão de que o hospital é um cenário de dramas, foram revelados aspectos das redes de apoio interfamiliares, da fé como mobilizadora de força para o enfrentamento do adoecimento e da internação, bem como uma série de situações motivadoras de tensões e conflitos na enfermaria. O posto de enfermagem apresentou-se como lugar da expressão do corporativismo, das hierarquias, mas também das pilhérias. A análise das interações aponta ainda para a dimensão de “cuidado” implicada na ação comunicativa. Das narrativas das famílias sobre a experiência do acompanhamento na hospitalização emergiram três categorias relevantes: “o acompanhar e cuidar como conforto mútuo”; “o acompanhar e cuidar como um ato de amor”; “o acompanhar e cuidar como obrigação”. A pesquisa indica a importância de investimentos em novos estudos etnográficos no hospital que envolvam a família, colocando em relevo este grupo que integra o cenário hospitalar. / The present research aims to understand the experience of illness and hospitalization for the family group from their integrants and healthcare workers who develop caring activity in the medical clinic of a public hospital within Bahia. Anchored in an interdisciplinary perspective, the research follows a qualitative approach, focused on participant observation, interviews and sensitive listening that supported the holding of interaction ethnography in the medical clinic. Participants were 14 families and 17 workers of the clinic, including accompanying family members who performed the activity, from 48 hours in the clinic, and excluding accompanying family members receiving income and private caregivers. Observations were carried out in the hospital lobby, in the hall, at the nursing station and in the wards, totaling eight months of systematic observation. Collected data were treated methodologically and epistemologically as narratives, within a biographical perspective, from the combination of obtained information, originating the "narratives of narratives”. Biographical focus support was possible on narrative (re)elaboration of the data collected, as evidenced by the lived experience as a whole. As ethnography results and from the understanding that the hospital is a setting of dramas, inter-family support network aspects were revealed, faith as a mobilizing force to face the illness and hospitalization, as well as a series of motivating situations of tensions and conflicts in the infirmary. The nurses' station has been presented as a place of corporatism expression, hierarchies, but also of jokes. Interactions analysis still points to the dimension of "care" involved in communicative action. Three important categories emerged from families’ narratives on the hospital follow-up experience: "follow-up and care as mutual comfort"; "follow-up and care as an act of love"; "follow-up and care as an obligation." Research indicates the importance of investments in new ethnographic studies in the hospital that involve the family, highlighting this group that integrates the hospital setting.