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Week 1 Project Mary Cardenas South University December 3, 2023
The human behavior-based observational study selected is called Where Words Fail, Music Speaks: The Impact of Participatory Music on Mental Health and Well-being of Asylum Seekers by Caroline Lenette et al. The objective of this study is to examine the growing evidence that participatory music and singing activities with detained asylum seekers can help with their mental and emotional distress which is caused by acknowledgement of their indefinite detention state. The individuals that are being observed are those of Australia’s asylum seekers who are transported under harsh conditions. According to the information listed in the article, there have been arguable points that there could be more humane measures to detain such as a community detention, which hereafter, did occur. Participatory music is recognized for being a supportive and comforting measure that has been found to be therapeutic as it, “can provide a meaningful “cultural platform” and social networks, enabling “intense experiences of involvement” (Lenette et al, 2016, p 2). The methods that were taken to determine how impactful participatory music is for these seekers is explore that of the project that was conducted called The Scattered People. The Scattered People are musicians who perform and compose asylum seekers that they encounter in community and detention centers. Their goal is to heal and join cultures and countries through the power of music in hopes of restoring hope and faith in those being detained. Members of The Scattered People attend an immigration facility weekly meanwhile, others meet with previous asylum seekers that have been released and attend community settings monthly. The project that was constructed to conduct experiments to test the effects of participatory music is referred to as The Crossroads. Through this project, researchers may conduct extensive interviews, thus allowing the researchers to write about what they experienced, what they were told by the asylum seekers, and what they observed.
It is through this recorded data that is completed by the researchers that we learn how asylum seekers are feeling, their behavior and emotions, and health is affected (if in any way) by the participatory music. That information is gathered and compared to other asylum seekers that are not exposed to participatory music. The process of having this data obtained and written in a more formal matter is handled by a lead researcher who gathers all the data and passes it along to community groups and networks such as The Scattered People who promote their objective on a highly social scale to offer these statistics that persuade and educate those who were not aware of that the options not only are feasible but beneficial and preferred. As for The Crossroads project, “music facilitator is seen as the consenting “participant” who offers his or her own interpretations, experiences, and reflections as the source of “data” for analysis (Lenette et al, 2016, p 3). In the process of conducting the analysis and decision-making, proven research methods regarding health-based cases are merged with the insights of how participatory music can offer wellbeing and healthy outcomes to establish results. By addressing the concepts of humanization, resilience, community, and agency, the study helped to determine that music does significantly impact traumatic experiences and detention on asylum seekers’ health and well- being in a positive manner. The study that I would create is to research the impact of music on human development and well-being. Since this is a general term, which I wholeheartedly believe applies to the general population, to supply accurate and testable results, it would be appropriate to narrow down the number of participants. With that said, I would focus specifically on how music can positively impact the well-being of those who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia disease. Music is an optional, yet enjoyable art that people use for various purposes daily. Different from the case study that was written by Caroline Lenette et al, focus groups
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