On Monday 15th November, 5.30-6.30pm, the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (CIMTR) at ARU will be hosting the free webinar ’Music therapy in mental health – setting up and evaluating a new service in Trinidad’, presented by Jamal Glynn, as part of the Public Research Lecture Series 2021-22. This event will take place on Zoom Webinar and is open to all.
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Abstract: In this talk, I will highlight the achievements in establishing the first Music Therapy post in Trinidad based at the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital in Port of Spain. I will illustrate some of the dynamics in offering a full-time music therapy service to outpatients’ clinics within the community in different institutions across Trinidad. Further, I will outline and discuss the work with two groups for adults living with schizophrenia, and how I embarked upon initial pilot research, using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), as a scientific and evidence-based method for a pilot study.
The talk offers some important insights into the reality of public perception of music therapy in Trinidad and Tobago. I will also address the need to build awareness of music therapy and what it can offer, for the public. Further, case studies from my clinical work with consent, are given to demonstrate the benefits of music therapy to evaluate this new service. Finally, the talk suggests increasing more clinical research focusing on the historic, social, and cultural specifics of the Caribbean, including setting up a training programme to develop music therapy in the Caribbean context.
British Association for Music Therapy :: Jamal Glynn (bamt.org)
International Music Therapy: Trinidad & Tobago - YouTube
Speaker Biography: Jamal J Glynn MA is a registered Music Therapist with HCPC and BAMT at the North West Regional Health Authority in Trinidad and Tobago. He holds the first music therapy post there in the public sector. His work focuses on psychoanalytic approaches which he offers music therapy to in-patients and out-patients at the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago. He is particularly passionate about exploring the benefits of using the steelpan in Music Therapy within the mental health setting and providing a Caribbean perspective to existing knowledge of music therapy interventions and non- conventional instruments. He has also conducted research focusing on clients living in Trinidad and Tobago. ‘Music Therapy and its relationship to Schizophrenia’ – A pilot study, in: Caribbean Medical Journal, volume 75 No. 2, December 2013,(pg8-13); Results of this pilot study were also presented as a poster presentation at the 8th Nordic Music Therapy Congress in 2015 and as an oral presentation at the 15th World Congress for Music Therapy in Tuskuba Japan 2017, https://issuu.com/presidentwfmt/docs/mtt_13_1__7-2017 ‘Behind the closed door’: The Effects of Early Childhood Abuse on a Dementia Client and the Benefits of Music Therapy-A case Study; oral presentation at the first “Music Therapy and Dementia Care in the 21st Century” conference at Anglia Ruskin University 2015; Poster presentation at North West Regional Health Authority NWRHA Research Day 2018.
We hope you can join us for this event! If you do and are using social media, please use the hashtag #CIMTRwebinar to share your experiences and feedback. If you have any questions regarding this webinar, please contact Kiera Kenny kk500@pgr.aru.ac.uk
With best wishes,
The CIMTR Team