Joy Allen

Director, Music and Health Institute; Chair, Music Therapy

United States

Collaborator Bio

Joy Allen, PhD, MT-BC is an active clinician, researcher, and educator with extensive experience in psychological health, pain management, and trauma informed education and supervision. She has presented on her work at several peer-reviewed conferences, including regional, national and international music therapy and music and health related conferences. She is the editor of Guidelines for Music Therapy: Adult Medical Care, and author of chapters on adult oncology, pain management, trauma informed care, and medical music therapy. In addition to serving as Chair, Music Therapy, Dr. Allen is the Founding and Acting Director, Music & Health Institute, Berklee College of Music, where she curates programs and trainings; maintains a repository of music and health related research, and designed a one of a kind Music & Health Innovation Studio to incubate and accelerate the development of music informed, solution-focused resources for a wide range of healthcare challenges impacting our global communities.

Expertise:

Acute pain

Chronic pain

Music-based interventions for indications other than pain

Music-based interventions for pain management

Discipline:

Arts Administration

Music Therapy

Publications

Allen, J. (2013). Pain Management. In J. Allen (Ed.), Guidelines for Music Therapy Practice: Medical Care of Adults. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona.

Allen, J., & Gallagher, L. (in press). Music therapy for pain management. In Viega, M., Dossantos, A., & Wheeler, B. (Eds). Music Therapy Handbook, 2nd Edition. Guildford Press.

Allen, J. (2011). Group music psychotherapy in improving the self-concept of breast cancer survivors. Music Therapy Today, 9(1), pp. 100-101. [Conference Proceedings}