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Supervision of Music Therapy
A Theoretical and Practical Handbook
- Edited by Helen Odell-Miller, and Eleanor Richards.
Published October 2008
Supervision of Music Therapy discusses the theoretical bases underlying approaches to supervision in music therapy, as well as focusing on the distinctive aspects of music therapy supervision from both clinical and conceptual perspectives.
In this book, leading music therapy supervisors and…
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Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities
- Edited by Tessa Watson.
Published April 2007
Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities explores how music therapists work in partnership with people with learning disabilities to encourage independence and empowerment and to address a wide variety of everyday issues and difficulties.
Comprehensive and wide-ranging, this book…
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Music of the Soul
Composing Life Out of Loss
- By Joy S. Berger.
Published September 2006
Music of the Soul guides the reader through principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling, with the end goal of further empowering the grieving person.
Music has a unique ability to elicit a whole range of powerful emotional responses in people - even so far…
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The Handbook of Music Therapy
- Edited by Leslie Bunt, and Sarah Hoskyns.
Published August 2002
Music therapists work with children and adults of all ages with wide-ranging health-care needs. This handbook traces the history of recent developments in music therapy and the range of current applications and outlines practical requirements for the work and some basic prerequisites for and…
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Music at the Edge
The Music Therapy Experiences of a Musician with AIDS
- By Colin Lee.
Published June 1996
Through the words of the therapist and the music of the patient Music at the Edge allows the reader to experience a complete music therapy journey. Frances, a trained musician who was facing death from AIDS, challenged Colin Lee, the music therapist, to help him clarify his feelings about living,…
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You Bring Out the Music in Me
Music in Nursing Homes
- By D Rosemary Cassano.
Published January 1996
An enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. Practicing music therapists explain how music “speaks” to all of us, regardless of our language, culture, or abilities and how it…
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Art and Music: Therapy and Research
- Edited by Andrea Gilroy, and Colin Lee.
Published November 1994
This is the first comprehensive overview of the present state of research in art therapy and music therapy in the UK. It challenges assumptions about research in these areas, and makes use of research models from art history and music analysis as well as the more orthodox psychological and medical…
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Music Therapy
An Art Beyond Words
- By Leslie Bunt.
Published February 1994
Can music help people to overcome or cope with mental health problems? Music therapy is a relatively new discipline; although the power of music to alleviate illness and distress has been recognised for centuries, it is only in the twentieth century that systematic research into the reasons for its…
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