Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice

Roles, Relationships, Challenges
Herausgeber: Strange, John; Richards, Eleanor; Odell-Miller, Helen

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Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the challenges and benefits of including collaborators in a course of music therapy, this edited volume offers ways for music therapists to make the most of family members, medical staff, and others who may be present, but not recipients, in music therapy sessions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781849057028
• ISBN-10: 1849057028
• Artikelnr.: 43042674

Autorenporträt

John Strange chaired the UK Association of Professional Music Therapists from 1995 to 1998, also representing Britain on the European Music Therapy Committee (now Confederation). From 2002 to 2004 he was external assessor of improvisation on the Masters in Music Therapy programme at Aalborg University, Denmark. Since 1995, John has provided expert evidence on music therapy in almost thirty High Court cases of medical negligence. He has contributed chapters to two previous Jessica Kingsley publications and book reviews to the British Journal of Music Therapy. John is also a prolific composer, mainly of church music. Helen Odell-Miller OBE is a full time Professor of Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and worked previously for many years as a therapist researcher and manager specialising in adult mental health in the NHS. She has published and lectured internationally and led research projects looking at clinical outcomes in dementia, and arts therapies in the adult mental health field. She is a board member of the International Centre for Research in the Arts Therapies, the Council for Allied Health Professions Research, and The Music Therapy Charity. She sings in Cambridge Voices, and is also a violinist and pianist. Eleanor Richards is a Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Until 2013 she was a senior music therapist in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. She has a particular interest in group work, and is a team member at the Group Therapy Centre, Cambridge. She is also a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. She has published widely and contributed to national and international conferences. She is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Music Therapy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A Well-Trodden Territory in Need of a Map. John Strange,
freelance music therapist, London, Helen Odell-Miller, Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge, and Eleanor Richards, Anglia Ruskin University,
Cambridge. 1. Assistants as Interaction Partners. John Strange. 2. Music
Therapists' Experiences of Working with Staff in Sessions. Hannah Munro,
Nordoff Robbins Scotland. 3. Student Perspectives on Working with
Assistants on Placement During Vocational Music Therapy Training. Catherine
Warner, University of the West of England. 4. Involving Family Members who
are Primary Carers in Music Therapy Sessions with Children with Special
Needs. Pornpan Kaenampornpan, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. 5. Exploring
the Significance of the Role of Assistants in Music Therapy Groups in Adult
and Older People's Mental Health Settings. Helen Odell-Miller. 6. 'Let Them
Bring Their Own Song': A Qualitative Study of Developing Relationships
Between Care Staff and Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Through Music
Therapy and Dance Movement Therapy Groups. Ruth Melhuish, NHS Music
Therapist, Bradford on Avon. 7. Caregivers' Dual Role in Music Therapy to
Manage Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia. Ming Hung Hsu, MHA Homes and
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 8. Psychodynamic Group Music Therapy
Facilitates Carers to Become Auxiliary Music Therapists: A Case-Study and
Methodological Analysis. Anthi Agrotou, Arte Musical Academy, Nicosia,
Cyprus. 9. Supporting the Unplanned Journey: Music Therapy as a
Developmental Resource with People with Profound and Multiple Learning
Disabilities and Their Carers and Staff. Tessa Watson, Roehampton
University. 10. From Assistance to Co-Therapy: On the Role of the
Co-Therapist in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Jörg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge. 11. Music and Attuned Movement Therapy: How the
Facilitator Mediates Between Client and Therapist. John Strange, Mary-Clare
Fearn, music therapist in health and special education, Dorset and Rebecca
O'Connor, National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dublin. 12. Music and Movement:
Integrated Music Therapy and Physiotherapy for People with Severe Physical
Disabilities at Risk of Developing Fixed Deformities. John Strange and Lyn
Weekes, physiotherapy manager and special education teacher (retired). 13.
Improvised Music to Support Client-Assistant Interaction: The Perceptions
of Music Therapists. John Strange. 14. Who Knows Me Best? Exploring the
Collaborative Roles of Transient Practitioners and Constant Practitioners
in Music Therapy. Sarah Hadley, Oxleas NHS Trust and Music as Therapy
International. 15. An Inclusion Group for Primary School Pupils With and
Without Profound Learning Disability. Motoko Hayata, formerly Soundscape,
Newham Music Trust, and John Strange. 16. Building Musical Bridges in
Paediatric Hospital Departments. Tone Leinebø, Oslo University Hospital and
Trygve Aasgaard, Norwegian Academy of Music. 17. Someone Else in the Room:
Welcome or Unwelcome? An Attachment Perspective. Eleanor Richards. 18.
Valuing Human Resources. Training, Service Development, Research - The Way
Forward. John Strange, Helen Odell-Miller and Eleanor Richards.