Ep 83 Evelyn Mason

Evelyn Mason is an experienced music therapist and
Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Student at the Cambridge Institute for
Music Therapy Research at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in
Cambridge. Chroma Therapies and the Independent
Neurorehabilitation Providers Alliance (INPA) are collaborating
with ARU on this study which focuses on music therapy to address
the emotional challenges of family caregivers of people with
Huntington’s disease. As a practising clinician, she has
specialisms in brain injury rehabilitation, adoption, dementia,
learning disability and hospice care.


Having completed her MA Music Therapy training at ARU in 2008,
she worked for the Northern Ireland Music Therapy Trust in
Belfast, with children with learning difficulties in Chennai,
India, for Methodist Homes Association (MHA) in central England,
for Chroma Therapies with individual adoption cases, and
currently works with Chroma Therapies as a Neurologic Music
Therapist at a brain injury rehabilitation unit in Bristol. 


Evelyn employs an integrative approach in her clinical work. At
times, she uses psychodynamic processes at the pre-assessment
phase to understand relational or engagement issues with the
client. Evelyn seeks to adopt a desire-based approach by putting
the client’s choices at the core of the therapeutic journey. She
works within the scientific theory model when carrying out her
rehabilitation work, seeking to enable the client to benefit from
inter-disciplinary working and patient-centred rather than
discipline-centred programs. 


Evelyn's future research interests are related to the field of
neuro-disability. They include:


Developing musical techniques to address
neurologically-induced sensations.

Examining music therapy techniques to address speech deficits
in stroke patients diagnosed with aphasia.

Analysing connections between social issues and acquired
brain injury.

Developing online music therapy models for carers of people
with neurodegenerative conditions.



References/links:


The Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy – -In Memory of Robert F.
Unkefer (nmtacademy.co)


https://nmtacademy.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/nmt-definitions.pdf



Bruscia, K.E. (2014) Defining music therapy. 3rd ed. Gilsum,
NH: Barcelona Publishers.



Rolvsjord, R. (2016) Resource-Oriented Perspectives in Music
Therapy. Oxford University Press.


Thaut, M. and Hœmberg, V. (2016) Handbook of neurologic music
therapy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.