Music therapists' use of interviews to evaluate group programmes with young people: Integrating Wilber's quadrant perspectives

Abstract

Music programmes facilitated by music therapists are becoming more popular for vulnerable young people in mainstream and alternative school settings, however evaluation strategies have been sparsely documented within the music therapy literature. This article contributes eight interview topics for use in evaluating music programmes with adolescents. A rationale is provided for the need for such a tool with particular reference to the challenges of understanding how helpful a programme has been for young people based only on their behavioural responses. The limitations of using unstructured interviews are also explored because of the tendency to solicit a limited number of perspectives, rathe..