Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Developmental Disability, Paediatrics and Neurology

Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Developmental Disability, Paediatrics and Neurology

Foreword By
Editors
Increasingly, music therapy is being practised as an intervention in medical and special educational settings. Focusing on clinical work with developmental disability, paediatrics and neurology, this book informs music therapists through case studies and analyses of theory and practice. The contributors are specialised music therapists who have worked with premature infants in intensive care, children with physical and learning disabilities, children with autism, emotionally disturbed teenagers and adults with neurological illnesses. They describe and explain the planning and evaluation of music therapy intervention, how music therapy can be used for assessing complex organic and emotional disabilities, and aspects of supervision for the professional music therapist.

Reflecting on and developing the applications of music therapy, this collection will help establish effective therapy methods in which the creative use of music is employed by skilled and clinically experienced music therapists in a client-oriented interactive process.

Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Psychiatry, & Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Developmental Disability, Paediatrics and Neurology 2 volume set
  • Published: 1999-04-01
  • Pages: 286
  • 233 x 157mm
  • ISBN 9781853027345
£26.99
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The Arts In Psychotherapy

Provides an articulate discussion surrounding the components and the quality of the therapuetic relationship involving the patient, the music, and the music therapist. The writers lead the reader through a hallway of psychiactric termssuch as transference, release and containment, all within the context of the music therapist's perspective. They emphasise the importance of music therapists' personal expertise in the musical instruments they choose for use with patients. They highlight a respect for ones limitations and fears in stressing that "musical therapists be able to anylyze and work through personal fears of loss of control in order to deal in a therapuetic way with psychiactric patients" (p.20). They state that the musical experience is necessary in helping the patients acquire an insight needed to work through conflict. Through the variety of clinical presentations offered by this international forum of music therapy professionals, the reader has witnessed a rich balance of blending of psychotherapuetic theory and clinical music therapy in action. The range of contributions, although at times perhaps more reflective of the international approach to music therapy with it's emphasis on music improvisation, nonetheless makes a serious contribution to the annals of music therapy literature in the psychiactric setting. The benefits of reading this anthology to those serving the needs of the psychiactric client will endure long after the settling of first reflections.

OTPLD Newsletter

Reference is made to case study material and the theory underpinning music therapy as a medium is demonstrated through the diversity of clients' needs highlighted in the case studies.

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

This book is most helpful in setting out and explaining the rationale behind the use of music as a therapeutic medium and thus enabling practitioners to understand how precisely it could be of benefit to their client group... the book is very readable, the prose flows well, theory is well integrated into practice and case studies are pertinent and interesting.

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