Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Part 1 Paediatrics: premature birth and music therapy, Monika Nocker-Ribaupierre; indications for the inclusion of music therapy in the care of hospitalized infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, Helen Shoemark; ''a song of life'' - improvised songs with children with cancer and serious blood disordes, Ann Turry. Part 2 Developmental disability: contact in music - the analysis of musical behaviour in children with communication disorder and pervasive developmental disability for differential diagnosis, Tony Wigram; music and autism - vocal improvization as containment of stereotypes, Gianluigi di Franco; islanders - making connections in music therapy, Claire Flower; client-centred therapy for emotionally disturbed teenagers with moderate learning disability, John Strange; the use of creative improvization and psychodynamic insights in music therapy with an abused child, Pauline Etkin; Orff music therapy with multiple-handicapped children, Melanie Voight; the music, the meaning and the therapist's dilemma, Sandra Brown. Part 3 Neurology: ''singing my life, playing myself'' - song-based and improvisatory methods of music therapy with individuals with neurological impairments, Wendy Magee; music therapy in neuro-surgical rehabilitation, Simon Gilbertson. Part 4 Aspects of training and clinical supervision: integrative approaches to supervision for music therapists, Isabelle Frohne-Hageman; psychoanalytically-oriented music therapy supervision, Janice Dvorkin; music therapy training - a process to develop the musical and therapeutic identity of the music therapist, Tony Wigram et al.