Short description:

This book takes the reader on a journey through the historical and contemporary landscape of the field of music therapy, updated with the latest practical, sociocultural and theoretical perspectives.

Long description:

The Handbook of Music Therapy takes the reader on a journey through the historical and contemporary landscape of the field of music therapy, updated with the latest practical, sociocultural and theoretical perspectives and developments in music therapy.

The second edition is divided into four parts: foundation and context; music therapy practice; learning and teaching; and professional life. This includes the trajectory of music therapy as a health, social and community-based discipline in the 21^st century with an evolving evidence base that also acknowledges the growing edges in the field, such as perspectives around equity, inclusion and diversity. The editors have included practice-based chapters including contributions from music therapy specialists in the fields of autism, adult learning disability, forensic psychiatry, neurology, immigration and dementia. The second edition is thoroughly updated to showcase a series of new interviews with Elders in the music therapy field, a thoroughly revised first section of the book with new materials on values and principles, updated chapters on music therapy practice, online and print resources supporting music therapy practice including musical illustrations with new and revised examples, and an extensively revised final section with new chapters on professional life and research.

Illustrated with rich case studies and practical examples throughout, The Handbook of Music Therapy covers a variety of different theoretical and philosophical perspectives. It will be invaluable to music therapists (novices, students, professionals), other arts therapists and practitioners such as speech and language therapists, psychotherapists, teachers, community musicians, psychiatrists and social workers.

?This book is a ´must read´ for music therapy students and professionals all over the world. It is innovative - written with a frame of poetic journeys through many thresholds for the music therapy profession and the single music therapist. The book covers relevant shifts of paradigms around the planet including current sociocultural issues. Interviews of three distinguished leaders in music therapy are unfolded and flow through the chapters. A richness of diverse information and relevant reflections on music therapy.? - Inge Nygaard Pedersen PhD; Associate Professor Emerita, Aalborg University, Denmark.

?This is an impressive new edition of an excellent resource for music therapy students, professionals and faculty. This revision includes expanded awareness and focus on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion. The editors are situated in who they are and how their positionality impacts the lenses they bring to this edition. Framed as a series of ?thresholds? this book takes us from rites of passage in training, to social, political, and historical thresholds to mythological and metaphorical thresholds. I applaud all of the work that has gone into this new edition. This will be a spectacular resource for the music therapy community for many years to come.? - Professor Michele Forinash PhD: Director, PhD Programme in Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, US.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the second edition          

LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY

PART I

Foundations and context            

1. Meetings with three music therapy Elders      

LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY

2. Background, context and values

SARAH HOSKYNS, SANGEETA SWAMY AND LESLIE BUNT

3. Principles, practicalities, and the music therapy relationship        

SANGEETA SWAMY,  SARAH HOSKYNS AND LESLIE BUNT

PART II

Music therapy practice chapters 

SARAH HOSKYNS, LESLIE BUNT AND SANGEETA SWAMY

4. Suzanna?s story: music therapy with a pre-school child    

LESLIE BUNT

5. ?Hullo object! I destroyed you!?: a tribute and extracts of writing

SANDRA BROWN

6. Music therapy with adults with learning disabilities ? a view from the United                        Kingdom            

TESSA WATSON

7. Music therapy and neurology    

CATHERINE WATKINS AND CATHY WARNER

8. Music therapy in forensic psychiatry: a case study with musical commentary     

ANN SLOBODA AND STELLA COMPTON DICKINSON WITH A MUSICAL COMMENTARY BY RICHARD BOLTON

9. Music therapy with immigrants: a case study of music and imagery with ?Mia?

SANGEETA SWAMY

10. Musical narratives in music therapy treatment for dementia        

HELEN ODELL-MILLER

PART III

Learning and teaching

 Introduction     

SARAH HOSKYNS, SANGEETA SWAMY AND LESLIE BUNT

11. Evolving a capacity for wondering: the development of observation and listening skills     

SARAH HOSKYNS

12. Beginning the music therapy journey     

SARAH HOSKYNS AND LESLIE BUNT

13. Developing the musical journey: new directions in the cultural psychology of music      

SANGEETA SWAMY AND SARAH HOSKYNS

PART IV

Professional life

Introduction to Part IV  

LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY

14. The professional music therapist             

LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY

15. Narratives, reflections and challenges in music therapy research and evaluation         

LESLIE BUNT, SARAH HOSKYNS AND SANGEETA SWAMY

Endnotes           

SANGEETA SWAMY,  SARAH HOSKYNS AND LESLIE BUNT

Name index      

Subject index