Amy Bliss Tenney, J.D., MT-BC, MAMT
RICH in Music: Refugee-Immigrant Connection & Healing, Essex, Maryland
Music therapy can help refugee children arriving in the U.S. to take pride in their own cultures while learning about and connecting to a new culture. In this podcast, Amy Bliss Tenney shares the outcomes of her survey study involving American music therapists working with refugees. She also provides helpful examples and specific considerations applicable to early childhood music therapy services for humanitarian migrant children.
Resources:
- Beck, B. D., Messel, C., Lund Meyer, S., Oluf Cordtz, T., Søgaard, U., Simonsen, E., & Moe, T. (2017). Feasibility of trauma-focused Guided Imagery and Music with adult refugees diagnosed with PTSD: A pilot study. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 27(1), 67–68. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2017.1286368
- Beck, B. D., Lund, S. T., Søgaard, U., Simonsen, E., Tellier, T. C., Cordtz, T. O., Laier, G. H., & Moe, T. (2018). Music therapy versus treatment as usual for refugees diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 19(1), 301. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2662-z
- Comte, R. (2016). Neo-colonialism in music therapy: A critical interpretive synthesis of the literature concerning music therapy practice with refugees. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 16(3). https://dx.doi.org/10.15845/voices.v16i3.865
- Orth, J. (2005). Music therapy with traumatized refugees in a clinical setting. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v5i2.227
- Tenney, A. B. (2018, April 12). Music therapists’ practices with refugees in the U.S.: A descriptive study. Unpublished manuscript, Immaculata University, Malvern, PA.
- RICH in Music: Refugee-Immigrant Connection & Healing. (2020). Home. www.richinmusic.org
- Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/RICH-in-Music-Refugee-Immigrant-Connection-Healing-624477761254938/
About the Author:
Amy Bliss Tenney is a board-certified music therapist and former non-profit immigration and refugee attorney. She founded RICH in Music: Refugee-Immigrant Connection & Healing, and serves as its director and music therapist. The organization provides music therapy and music experiences for refugees, asylum seekers, and other humanitarian migrants in Baltimore, MD.
Contact: amy@tenneymusictherapist.com
Suggested Citation:
Tenney, A. B. (2020, July 1).From refugee camp to baby shark: Music therapy with humanitarian migrant children [Audio podcast]. imagine. www.imagine.musictherapy.biz