ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
The Therapeutic Relationship as Predictor of Change in Music Therapy with Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06016621 (A Randomised Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of Improvisational Music Therapy for Autistic Children Aged 7 - 11 [Autism-CHIME Trial].), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Randomised Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of Improvisational Music Therapy for Autistic Children Aged 7 - 11 [Autism-CHIME Trial].
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cross-professional collaboration between music therapists and special education teachers in autism interventions: a grounded theory qualitative meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Music therapy for autistic people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Scientific Studies on the Effects of Music in People with or at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of music therapy in children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Attunement in Music Therapy for Young Children with Autism: Revisiting Qualities of Relationship as Mechanisms of Change.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Trial
- Music improves social communication and auditory-motor connectivity in children with autism.Translational psychiatry · 2018Trial
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- Music Therapy for People With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.Cureus · 2025Review
- Rhythms of relief: perspectives on neurocognitive mechanisms of music interventions in ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Study protocol of a randomized control trial on the effectiveness of improvisational music therapy for autistic children.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Interventions through Art Therapy and Music Therapy in Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Language Disorders, and Learning Disabilities in Pediatric-Aged Children: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Response to Music-Mediated Intervention in Autistic Children with Limited Spoken Language Ability.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Oxytocin as a physiological correlate of dyadic music therapy relationships - a randomized crossover pilot study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- A Music-Therapy Robotic Platform for Children With Autism: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
- Dyadic nonverbal synchrony during pre and post music therapy interventions and its relationship to self-reported therapy readiness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Clinical and Neural Predictors of Treatment Response to Music Listening Intervention after Stroke.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Music-Evoked Reward and Emotion: Relative Strengths and Response to Intervention of People With ASD.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2019Review
- The case for treatment fidelity in active music interventions: why and how.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
This study examined whether the therapeutic relationship in music therapy with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder predicts generalized changes in social skills. Participants (4-7 years, N = 48) were assessed at baseline, 5 and 12 months. The therapeutic relationship, as observed from session videos, and the generalized change in social skills, as judged by independent blinded assessors and parents, were evaluated using standardized tools (Assessment of the Quality of Relationship; ADOS; SRS). Linear mixed effect models showed significant interaction effects between the therapeutic relationship and several outcomes at 5 and 12 months. We found the music therapeutic relationship to be an important predictor of the development of social skills, as well as communication and language specifically.
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