Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The fascinating and diverse descriptions contained in this text begin the process of developing indigenous understandings of music therapy in group work and alert the reader to issues for future exploration. A fascinating text, describing a range of clients - I highly recommend it.'

- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

Group music therapy has been widely practised for many years, especially within institutional settings, and features substantially in training, yet there has been no publication devoted to the discussion of this area of therapy. Music Therapy and Group Work fills this gap by bringing together the experiences of group music therapy practitioners who work with diverse client groups in various settings. Whilst acknowledging that the practice of group music therapy incorporates many theoretical and practical issues in common with those of mainstream group work, the editors emphasize that this field needs to develop some further theoretical discourse of its own, primarily because its main contrast from regular group work is that it draws on a non-verbal medium alongside the ordinary verbal exchange.

The book combines clinical examples with theory to provide a comprehensive introduction to group music therapy. Practitioners not only of music therapy, but also those working in related disciplines, will find this to be an informative and stimulating read.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. 9)
• Part 1 Music Therapy Groups with Adults
• 1. Introduction (p. 15)
• 2. Sound Company: Psychodynamic Group Music Therapy as Facilitating Environment, Transformational Object and Therapeutic Playground (p. 27)
• 3. Drummed Out of Mind: A Music Therapy Group with Forensic Patients (p. 43)
• 4. One Man's Journey and the Importance of Time: Music Therapy in an NHS Mental Health Day Centre (p. 63)
• 5. Music Therapy with Elderly Adults (p. 77)
• 6. 'There's No Getting Away From Anything in Here': A Music Therapy Group within an Inpatient Programme for Adults with Eating Disorders (p. 90)
• 7. A Music Therapy Group in a Neurological Rehabilitation Ward (p. 105)
• 8. Finding a Space To Play: A Music Therapy Group for Adults with Learning Disabilities (p. 120)
• 9. A Music and Art Therapy Group for People with Learning Disabilities (p. 133)
• Part 2 Music Therapy Groups with Children
• 10. A Music Therapy Group to Assist Clinical Diagnoses in Child and Family Psychiatry (p. 149)
• 11. Combined Efforts: Increasing Social-Emotional Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder Using Psychodynamic Music Therapy and Division TEACCH Communication Programme (p. 164)
• 12. Preparing a Potential Space for a Group of Children with Special Needs (p. 188)
• 13. A Children's Group: An Exploration of the Framework Necessary for Therapeutic Work (p. 202)
• 14. Working, Playing and Relating: Issues in Group Music Therapy for Children with Special Needs (p. 216)
• 15. 'Could I Play a Different Role?': Group Music Therapy with Severely Learning Disabled Adolescents (p. 231)
• Part 3 Group Work in Supervision and with Music Therapy Students
• 16. Supervising a Music Therapy Group: A Seriously Non-Musical Problem (p. 249)
• 17. Some Observations on Music Therapy Training Groups (p. 262)
• 18. A Group Analytic Look at Experiential Training Groups: How Can Music Earn Its Keep? (p. 274)
• The Contributors (p. 288)
• Subject Index (p. 293)
• Author Index (p. 300)

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