Mangiacotti, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-4974 (2025) Music for displaced dyads (M4DD): a music therapy feasibility study for displaced Ukrainian parents and their pre-school children. In: Music Therapy with Displaced Persons: Trauma, Transformations and Cultural Connections. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 212-232. ISBN 9781805013839

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Abstract

This chapter describes and discusses aspects of a music therapy feasibility study, Music for Displaced Dyads (M4DD), for displaced Ukrainian parents and pre-school children undertaken in the Spring of 2023 in London. A feasibility study is a way to find out if a project plan has the potential to be successful as a bigger project. As this was the first project plan where the team was aware of using these measures and protocols, a feasibility study seemed the best way to test the thinking behind the project. The chapter will consider the range of data collected and their relationship to each other, and discuss findings.
The study was a collaboration between Middlesex University and the University of South Wales. It aimed to explore whether music therapy could help Ukrainian parents reduce their own stress and improve bonding with their pre-school children. Group music therapy sessions, each 45 minutes long, were delivered weekly over eight weeks, with two groups receiving the intervention. Of vital importance to the work were the participants who gave of their time not just for sessions, but also to complete the study’s measures and interviews and participate in a film. It is such generosity, including insights shared with the team in the qualitative data, which has been invaluable to the study.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Subjects:	Performing arts Psychology
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2025
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14327
Sustainable Development Goals:	Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

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