The third edition of ‘Music Therapy Research’: An interview with Barbara Wheeler

Abstract

In this interview Professor Barbara Wheeler reflects on the development of the third edition of ‘Music Therapy Research’ (Wheeler & Murphy 2016). Through a historical lens spanning more than two decades, she points to key and influential colleagues in the field and notes how each of the editions of the book has broadened to include a wider range of international perspectives and approaches to research. In explaining the important changes that she and her co-editor Kathleen Murphy have made in the third edition, she signposts current emergent trends and contemporary issues in the significantly changing landscape of music therapy research.

Keywords

• music therapy research
• quantitative research
• qualitative research
• objectivist research
• interpretivist research