Music therapy has an increasingly important role within the residential programme at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. The main theme of this article is an emerging integrated approach to the evaluation of the music therapy intervention at the Centre. The variations referred to in the title are summaries of two earlier research projects and an analysis of a recent series of focus group discussions. Research plans are also suggested as future variations. There is a cyclical and common-sense approach to the way in which the music therapy research has developed at the Centre. All evidence has emerged and is emerging from the practice. Close links are developing between the ongoing changes in the methodologies for the music therapy research and the overall research plans at the Centre.
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