title: Evidence-based music therapy practice: an integral understanding.
abstract: The American Music Therapy Association has recently put into action a plan called its Research Strategic Priority, with one of its central purposes to advance the music therapy field through research promoting Evidence-Based Practice of music therapy. The extant literature on music therapy practice, theory, and research conveys a range of very different perspectives on what may count as the "evidence" upon which practice is based. There is therefore a need to conceptualize evidence-based music therapy practice in a multifaceted, yet coherent and balanced way. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a framework based upon four distinct epistemological perspectives on evidence-based music therapy practice that together represent an integral understanding.
authors.affiliation: Montclair State University, USA.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Abrams
mesh_terms: D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009147:Music Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011361:Professional Competence; D012107:Research Design; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States