Psychometric Results of the Music Therapy Scale (MAKS) for Measuring Expression and Communication

作者

  • Dorothee von Moreau Dr. rer. medic., music therapist (bvm, DMtG), Dipl. Psychologist
  • Heiner Ellgring Dr. rer. nat., Dipl. Psychologist
  • Kirstin Goth Dr. phil. nat., Dipl. Psychologist
  • Fritz Poustka Prof. Dr. med., professor emeritus
  • David Aldridge PhD, FRSM

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https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v2i1.235

摘要

The Music Therapy Rating Scale (MAKS), originally developed in 1996, was evaluated again in 2009 using a sample of 62 children from a psychiatric unit and from different primary schools, with measures at three different time points during therapy process. The scale is intended as an objective rating of a client’s musical behavior. The evaluation of the scale was to determine any possible ambiguity or weakness in the discriminatory power of the scale items. After excluding such items, the results show high reliability (a > .75) and good objectivity with trained raters (r > .70) for the two main scales and a significant sensitivity to change.

Keywords

musical communication, musical expression, music therapy, rating scale MAKS

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Dorothee von Moreau, Dr. rer. medic., music therapist (bvm, DMtG), Dipl. Psychologist, is a psychological psychotherapist with clinical practice at the University Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and chairperson of the postgraduate music therapy training BWM at the Freies Musikzentrum in Munich, Germany.

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Heiner Ellgring, Dr. rer. nat., Dipl. Psychologist, is a professor at the InstituteforPsychology,UniversityofWu ̈ rzburg,Wu ̈ rzburg, Germany.

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Kirstin Goth, Dr. phil. nat., Dipl. Psychologist, is a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy for Children and Young Adults at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Fritz Poustka, Prof. Dr. med., professor emeritus, Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy for Children and Young Adults at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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David Aldridge, PhD, FRSM, is codirector of Nordoff-Robbins- Zentrum, Witten, Germany.

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期

卷 2 编号 1 (2010)

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