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Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND)

Catalog of Assessment Tools

Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND)

To assess how clients perceive, interpret, and make music with the therapist while participating in individual music therapy

Catalog of Assessment Tools

Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND)

To assess how clients perceive, interpret, and make music with the therapist while participating in individual music therapy

Title (Acronym) Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND)
Author(s) John A. Carpente (original version)
Publication date 2013
Publisher info Regina Publishers
Purpose To assess how clients perceive, interpret, and make music with the therapist while participating in individual music therapy
Assessment index terms Test; Observational
Population Children, adolescents, and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit, hyperactivity order, etc.)
Scores Musical Emotional, Musical Cognitive/Perception, and Musical Responsiveness
Administration Individual
Time 2 x 30 minutes – one week apart
Comments
  • Published evidence: inter-rater reliability
  • Unpublished evidence: construct validity, convergent and predictive validity
  • IMCAP-ND has been used in outcome studies as well as in a clinical context with toddlers, children, teens, and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Specialized training is required
  • Can only be administered by a trained music therapist
CROSS REFERENCES

Andre, A. M., Gomes, C. M. A., & Loureiro, C. M. V. (2016). Escalas Nordoff Robbins: uma revisão bibliográfica. Percepta-Revista de Cognição Musical, 3(2), 117.

Carpente, J. A. (2014). Individual music-centered assessment profile for neurodevelopmental disorders (IMCAP-ND): new developments in music-centered evaluation. Music Therapy Perspectives, 32(1), 56-60.

Carpente, J. A. (2016). Investigating the effectiveness of a developmental, individual difference, relationship-based (DIR) improvisational music therapy program on social communication for children with autism spectrum disorder. Music Therapy Perspectives, 35(2), 160-174.

Carpente, J. A. & Gattino, G. (2018). Validity and reliability evidence for the Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND) for children with autism spectrum disorder. Manuscript in preparation.

Carpente, J. A. & Gattino, G. (in-press). Inter-rater Reliability on the Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND) for autism spectrum disorder. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.

Gattino, G. S., da Silva, A. M., Figueiredo, F. G., & Schüler-Faccini, L. (2017). KAMUTHE video microanalysis system for use in Brazil: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and evidence of validity and reliability. Health Psychology Report, 5(2), 125-137.

LaGasse, A. B. (2017). Social outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder: a review of music therapy outcomes. Patient Related Outcome Measures, 8, 23–32. http://doi.org/10.2147/PROM.S106267

Ritter-Cantesanu, G. (2014). Music therapy and the IEP process. Music Therapy Perspectives, 32(2), 142-152.

Spiro, N., & Himberg, T. (2016). Analysing change in music therapy interactions of children with communication difficulties. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 371(1693), 20150374.

Tsiris, G., Spiro, N., & Pavlicevic, M. (2017). Repositioning music therapy service evaluation: a case of five Nordoff-Robbins music therapy service evaluations in neuro-rehabilitation. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 27(1) 1-25.
Reference Carpente J. (2013). Individual music-centered assessment profile for neurodevelopmental disorders (IMCAP-ND): Clinical manual, Baldwin, NY: Regina Publishers.
REVIEW

Thane, E. (2015, January). Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND): A clinical manual. [Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND): A clinical manual, by J. Carpente]. Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, 21(1), 110.


Ritter-Cantesanu, G. (2014, January). Individual music-centered assessment profile for neurodevelopmental disorders (IMCAP-ND): A clinical manual. [Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND): A clinical manual, by J. Carpente]. Music Therapy Perspectives, 32(2) 201-202.
Description IMCAP-ND is a musical play-based observational assessment designed to examine the quality of musical interactions between the client and therapist. IMCAP-ND can be used for children, adolescents, and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. It focuses on 3 main areas while the client is engaged in music making: 1) social-emotional capacities, 2) cognition and perception skills, and 3) overall responsiveness pertaining to musical preferences, perceptual efficiency and self-regulation. Administering IMCAP-ND requires the therapist to improvise music experiences based on the client’s interests, music, and emotionality while providing specific musical cues, according to the protocols, that target particular musical responses within the context of relational music making experiences. Scoring involves the therapist rating the frequency of musical responses as well as the level of extra-musical support provided i.e., verbal, visual, and physical, in order for the client to demonstrate a musical-social capacity.