Mary L. Scovel
[Chapter 8, Therapy in the Treatment of Adults with Mental Disorders, Robert F. Unkefer, Editor]
1. The second sentence says, "This is a strength of this particular discipline because music therapists aren't restricted to one philosophical orientation but rather base treatment on eclectic models." Write out a complete definition (i.e., from at least a "collegiate" dictionary and preferably from an unabridged one) for "eclectic".
2. The approaches to music therapy in this chapter represent different closed systems. Pick one (and only one) of the scenarios below. For each of the six psychotherapeutic models described in this chapter, write an example of how a music therapist using this model would work with this patient and what would constitute a satisfactory outcome of treatment for this person in this model. Express your treatment and outcome in the jargon of the model.
A. You have been assigned five elderly patients (two male, three female) whose families did not keep them clean, fed, or supplied with their needed medications. Verbal abuse (cursing and obsenities) and hitting were common family reactions to requests for attention to needs or to soiling themselves.
B. You have been assigned two male patients whose admission diagnosis is one of the Bipolar Disorders. They have been hospitalized for two months. Medication has blunted the severity of the depressive episodes, but the manic episodes are still problematic.
C. You have been assigned one male patient whose admission diagnosis is Schizophrenia, Paranoid type. He has reported hearing voices and feels he has a religious mission to convert the lost wherever he may be. Medication (pill form) to combat the auditory hallucinations has been prescribed. This is a first admission.