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Medical Music Psychotherapy (MMPT) is a cutting-edge emergent model as practiced at the Louis Armstrong Music Therapy Department and Center for Music & Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City, in which an eclectic mix of psychotherapeutic models merge with music experiences as a medium and facilitator of the therapeutic relationship/alliance. Radiation oncology is an area long-neglected in music therapy practice with concerns specific to a particularly fragile subpopulation in the care of people with cancer. A discreet symptomatology resulting from implications of the diagnosis, the disease, compounded by the resultant symptomatology from chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy itself may contribute to the fragility of an already challenged population, many of whom also receive surgery during their treatment trajectory. These elements contribute to what can be an unsustainable level of illness and treatment burden requiring direct intervention if the patient is to avoid acute emotional distress.

The doctoral dissertation of Andrew Rossetti MMT, LCAT, MT-BC presents and analyzes the outcomes and implications of an internal review board-approved randomized control trial, that has made a critical contribution to the development and implementation of medical music psychotherapy-based oncology paradigm- TRS Trauma, Resilience, and Safety: a Music Psychotherapy Model for Addressing Illness Burden in Oncology. The study’s theoretical and clinical bases, and influencing underpinnings are explored. Present theory and praxis of music psychotherapy in a fragile population where allopathic medicine and mind/body constructs join to address symptom management, and pre-emptive treatment for anxiety and distress, as well as varied etiologies of emotional trauma and post traumatic stress are presented. Music psychotherapy’s capacity to address anxiety in cancer patients has not been sufficiently described. The study evaluated a specially designed protocolized music psychotherapy intervention’s impact on anxiety and distress experienced by patients undergoing Computerized Tomography (CT) Simulation. The resultant outcomes reflect how the music psychotherapy intervention significantly reduced anxiety and distress in newly diagnosed head & neck and breast cancer patients, with greater effect in subgroups with higher baseline anxiety and distress. While continued research on MMPT’s effects in radiation oncology is warranted, this dissertation’s focus on emotional trauma and its sequelae as emergent and seminal to the treatment of fragile oncology patients, provides a foundation for the subsequent TRS model.

Dissertation

Andrew Rossetti MMT, LCAAT, MT-BC will defend his doctoral dissertation in Music Therapy “TRS Trauma, Resilience, and Safety: a Music Psychotherapy Model for Addressing Illness Burden in Oncology” on Wednesday April 28, 2021 at 17:30 at the University of Jyvaskyla virtually on Zoom. The opponent is Professor Doctor Amy Clements-Cortez from the Department of Music and Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. The Custos is Professor Doctor Jaakko Erkkilä from the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies at the Ģ��ֱ��. The doctoral dissertation will be held in English. The doctoral dissertation is held in English.

The audience can follow the event online, the link is . If a member of the audience wants to ask questions at the end of the public examination, it is possible to call the Custos. The phone number of the Custos is +358 400 542 395.

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BIO

Andrew Rossetti MMT, MT-BC, LCAT, is the supervisor of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine’s multi-site Music Therapy Program in Radiation Oncology at Mount Sinai Healthcare System. His clinical practice in medical music psychotherapy extends to all areas of oncology in the hospital environ, as well as to the neonatal ICU where he specializes in Environmental Music Therapy in fragile areas as well as in the treatment of trauma and post traumatic stress. Andrew is an international lecturer and has been a frequent invited and keynote speaker at conferences and universities in the US, Asia, Europe, South America, and Canada. He is an active clinical researcher whose work has been published in numerous high impact medical journals and highlighted on television news on CBS, NBC, National Public Radio, and the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute’s Helix Center Series. He and his program were recently featured on in an article in the prestigious New York Times Science section. Andrew is on the board of directors of the International Association of Music & Medicine where he serves as the Executive Committee Secretary. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Music & Medicine and an Editorial Board Reviewer for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics. Andrew is a faculty member at Montclair State University, and the University of Barcelona. He is a consultant and supervisor of various music therapy programs internationally.

Further information: 

Andrew Rossetti: andrewrossetti@gmail.com

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