Eugenia Hernandez Ruiz

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Music Therapy and Autism

1. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2025). Parental demand, learning, and satisfaction of virtual parent coaching of music interventions. Journal of Music Therapy, 62(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thaf004  [Research supported by the Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award of the American Music Therapy Association]
2. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2025). Parent coaching of music interventions of young autistic children: Transforming research and professional knowledge into community practice (chapter). In K. McCord, C. Colwell, & D. VanderLinde (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Special Music Education and Music Therapy. Oxford University Press.
3. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2023). Recreative to improvisational music-making with a mother and her autistic child (chapter). In Clinical Decision-Making in Music Therapy: Case Studies. Eds. A. Heiderscheit & N. Jackson. Barcelona Publishers.
4. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2023). Virtual parent coaching of music interventions for young autistic children in Mexico. Music Therapy Perspectives, 41(1), e-21-e29. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miac030. [Research supported by HIDA Research Investment Grant, Arizona State University].
5. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Lehrer, G. (2022). “Music therapy was never on the table”: Perspectives of parents of young autistic children. [Research supported by the Harmonic Remedy Research Award of the Western Region of the American Music Therapy Association]. Journal of Music Therapy, 59(3), 307 -339. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thac008 
6. Hernandez-Ruiz, E., Qi, R., Wampler, M., & Welsh, E.R. (2022). Psychological and neural differences of music processing in autistic individuals: A scoping review. Journal of Music Therapy 59(1), 87-124. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thab020   
7. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Braden, B.B. (2021). Improving a parent coaching model of music interventions for young autistic children. Journal of Music Therapy, 58(3), 278-309. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thab008. [Research supported by HIDA Research Investment Grant, Arizona State University]
8. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2019). Parent coaching of music interventions for children with ASD: A conceptual framework. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 28(4), 315-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2019.1647447    

Music and Wellbeing

1. Hernandez-Ruiz, E., Asano, M., Ryu, J., Kirby, H., Abernathy, D., & Rosholt, M. (2025). Preference or choice? Relationships among college students’ music preference, personality, stress, and music consumption. Arts in Psychotherapy, 93, 102291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2025.102291 
2. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2023). Estímulos musicales para la práctica de la atención plena (Mindfulness): Investigación emergente e implicaciones clínicas. ECOS Revista Científica de Musicoterapia y Disciplinas Afines, 8. https://doi.org/10.24215/27186199e032 
3. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2022). Music to decrease anxiety in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Arts in Psychotherapy, 80, 101953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2022.101953  
4. Hernandez-Ruiz, E., Sebren, A., Alderete, C., Bradshaw, L., & Fowler, R. (2021). Effect of music on a mindfulness experience: An online study. Arts in Psychotherapy, 75. 101827.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2021.101827 
5. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Dvorak, A.L. (2020). Music and mindfulness meditation: Comparing four music stimuli composed under similar principles. Psychology of Music 49(6), 1620-1636. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735620969798 
6. Hernandez-Ruiz, E., James, B., Noll, J., & Chrysikou, E. (2018). What makes music relaxing? An investigation into musical elements. Psychology of Music, 48(3), 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618798027 

Music Therapy Student Development

1. Matney, B. & Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2025). Outcomes in music therapy (chapter). In Handbook of Music Therapy. M. Viega, B. Wheeler, A. Dos Santos (Eds.). Guilford Press. 
2. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Dvorak, A.L. (2023). Virtual course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Music Therapy Perspectives 41(1), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miac012 
3. Dvorak, A.L., & Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2021). Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences: Music therapy and music education students. Journal of Music Teacher Education, 30(3), 26-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/10570837211002167. 
4. Dvorak, A.L., Hernandez-Ruiz, E., Nick, H. C., Qi, R., Alderete, C., Frieze, Z. N., Georgeson, K. K., Hatcliff, A., Kirsch, A.A., Kunst, J., Medina, R., Smith, T. M., & Weeks, M. (2021). Benefits and challenges of a course-based research experience: Student and faculty perspectives. Dialogues in Music Therapy Education, 1. https://doi.org/10.18060/24287
5. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Dvorak, A. (2020) Replication of a course-based undergraduate research experience for music students. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 29(4), 317-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2020.1737186. 
6. Dvorak, A., & Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2019). Outcomes of a course-based research experience (CURE) for music therapy and music education students. Journal of Music Therapy, 56(1), 30-60. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thy020  

Domestic Violence

1. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2020). Empowering women survivors of domestic violence (clinical portrait). Music Therapy Perspectives. https://10.1093/mtp/miaa005
2. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2005). Effect of music therapy on anxiety levels and sleep patterns of abused women in shelters, Journal of Music Therapy 42(2), 140-158. DOI: 10.1093/jmt/42.2.140

Music Therapy in Latin America

1. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (accepted, in press). Music therapy practice in Mexico: A look back to move forward (chapter). In P. Zarate (Ed.) Latin American Musical and Cultural Context in Music Therapy.
2. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Sullivan, J. (2023). Who are the music therapists in Mexico and how do they practice? An online survey with professionals and students. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3785
3. Hernandez-Ruiz, E. & Sullivan, J. (2023). ¿Quiénes son los musicoterapeutas en México y cómo ejercen? Una encuesta online de profesionales y estudiantes. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. [artículo traducido al español] https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3785