Music therapy is a relatively new discipline. Although the power of music to alleviate illness and distress has been recognized for centuries, it is only...
In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging volume, David Aldridge explores the power of music as a healing treatment for a broad spectrum of physical...
Creative Music Therapy has its origins in working with children with special needs. In the last twenty years, however, the approach has been used extensively...
Within the last decade music therapists have developed their work with people who have life-threatening illnesses and with those who are dying. This book...
"There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical...
The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters...
This text looks at the use of the arts in healthcare in the UK and abroad with a specific emphasis on current research. The aim is to provide a valuable...
Increasingly, music therapy is being practised as an intervention in medical and special educational settings. Focusing on clinical work with developmental...