2017, Article / Letter to editor (Psychology of Music, vol. 46, iss. 4, (2017), pp. 568-587)Music as an effective self-regulative tool for emotions and behavioural adaptation for adolescents might enhance emotion-related skills when applied as a therapeutic school intervention. This study investigated Rap & Sing Music Therapy in a school-based programme, to support self-regulative abilities for well-being. One-hundred-and-ninety adolescents in grade 8 of a public school in the Netherlands were randomly assigned to an experimental group involving Rap & Sing Music Therapy or a control group. Both interventions were applied to six classes once a week during four months. Measurements at baseline and again after four months provided outcome data of adolescents’ psychological well-being, self-description, self-esteem and emotion regulation. Significant differences between groups on the SDQ teacher test indicated a stabilized Rap & Sing Music Therapy group, as opposed to increased problems in the control group (p = .001; ?p2 = .132). Total problem scores of all tests indicated significant improvements in the Rap & Sing Music Therapy group. The RCT results imply overall benefits of Rap & Sing Music Therapy in a school setting. There were improved effects on all measures – as they are in line with school interventions of motivational engagement in behavioural, emotional and social themes – a promising result.
2013, Book (monograph) Voor u ligt het boek ‘Narrativiteit in vaktherapie’, voor vaktherapeuten in de praktijk. Het doel van dit praktijkboek is om de begrippen ‘narratief werken’ en ‘narratief onderzoek’ toe te lichten en deze te verbinden aan de praktijk van de vaktherapie. Door definitie en uitleg van deze begrippen wordt het begrippenkader van de vaktherapeut itgebreid. Het helpt de vaktherapeut om te toetsen in hoeverre hij/zij werkzaam is volgens narratieve principes. Daarnaast schept het voor vaktherapeuten mogelijkheden hun werkwijzen desgewenst bij te schaven. Kennis over narrativiteit draagt zo bij aan de kwaliteit van het vaktherapeutisch werkveld.