Professor Joke Bradt
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Director, PhD Program in Creative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, USA
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC is Professor and Director of the PhD program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University (United States). She is a board-certified music therapist and her federally funded research program has focused on the development and testing of music therapy interventions for chronic pain and symptom management. She has completed several federally funded music therapy clinical trials for chronic pain. She is the co-PI on a large comparative-effectiveness trial funded by PCORI to compare the effects of virtual music therapy with virtual cognitive-behavioral therapy on anxiety in cancer survivors. She is the lead author of several Cochrane Systematic Reviews on music interventions with medical patients. Dr. Bradt leads the Music4Pain Research Network, funded by the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health and the Office of Behavior and Social Sciences Research (National Institutes of Health), and is co-founder of the International Music Therapy Clinical Trials Network (IMTCTnet). Finally, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy from 2015-2023.
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Role of Music Therapy in Supporting Pain Self-Management
Pain is one of the most common and costly health problems. Music therapy interventions are receiving increasing attention as promising approaches for pain management because of their favorable effects on pain and wide appeal to a large number of people. Dr. Joke Bradt will discuss how music therapy can contribute to effective pain management through its impact on biological, psychological, and social factors that exacerbate pain. She will briefly present an 8-week music therapy treatment protocol she developed for chronic pain management and discuss music-based strategies participants learn for pain self-management. Finally, she will introduce the Music4Pain Research Network, a new initiative funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (USA), to promote multidisciplinary research aimed at enhancing mechanistic understanding of music for pain management.
