Research & evidence

Some informational youTube videos

 

 

Groove Therapy: Drumming to Transform Mental Wellness | Laurel Hurst | TEDxOhioStateUniversitySalon

Benefits of Drumming Therapy - CNN piece

Drum Circles, Integrating Self and CommUninty | Robin Cardell | TEDxOshkosh

 

Academic papers

 

• Immediate effects of group-based wellness drumming on affective states in university students
  "Researchers have found recreational music making to have positive impacts and that active music-making may have benefits that extend beyond passive music listening or receptive music-based interventions." 
  (Mungus & Silverman, 2014)
   
• Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users
  "This study demonstrates the psychological benefits of group drumming and also suggests underlying biological effects, supporting its therapeutic potential for mental health." 
  (Fancourt et. al. 2016)
   
• Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery
  "The findings [of this study] provide support for the conceptual notion of ‘creative practice as mutual recovery’, demonstrating that group drumming provides a creative and mutual learning space in which mental health recovery can take place"
  (Perkins et. al. 2016)
   
• The Perceived Benefits of Participation in Community Drum Circles
  "The use of drumming in the context of drum circles may be useful as a therapeutic tool to promote, maintain, and restore engagement in meaningful occupations with beneficial outcomes related to physical and mental health."
  (Cudd, 2020)
  
  
  
   

References
 

Benefits of Drumming Therapy. (2016, July 1). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMuuO6O-qA

 

Cudd, Sean. (2020). The Perceived Benefits of Participation in Community Drum Circles. Retrieved from Sophia, the St. Catherine University repository website: https://sophia.stkate.edu/ma_osot/25

 

Drum Circles, Integrating Self and CommUninty | Robin Cardell | TEDxOshkosh. (2017, January 12). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLeRKoHynQQ 

Fancourt, D., Perkins, R., Ascenso, S., Carvalho, L. A., Steptoe, A., & Williamon, A. (2016). Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users. PLOS ONE, 11(3), e0151136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151136

Groove Therapy: Drumming to Transform Mental Wellness | Laurel Hurst | TEDxOhioStateUniversitySalon. (2020, December 17). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lnmNY2ikG4

 

Mungas, R., & Silverman, M. J. (2014). Immediate effects of group-based wellness drumming on affective states in university students. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 41(3), 287–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2014.04.008
 

Perkins, R., Ascenso, S., Atkins, L., Fancourt, D., & Williamon, A. (2016). Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery. Psychology of Well-Being, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13612-016-0048-0