The Handbook of Music Therapy

by Leslie Bunt (Editor), Sarah Hoskyns (Editor), Sangeeta Swamy (Editor)

Overview

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 21st 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317497899
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/22/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	434
File size:	30 MB
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About the Author

Leslie Bunt is Emeritus Professor in Music Therapy at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He trained with Juliette Alvin and Maggie Pickett in 1976–1977 (at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London) and from 1995–1999 in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) with Dr Kenneth Bruscia. Leslie has practised and researched music therapy with children and adults across the lifespan, has been involved in training since 1980 and is Founding Director of The MusicSpace Trust. He was awarded the first PhD in music therapy in the UK (City, 1985). Leslie is widely published, including the second edition of Music Therapy: An Art Beyond Words (with Brynjulf Stige). He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2009 for services to music therapy. Leslie is also a freelance conductor.

Sarah Hoskyns (she/her) is a registered music therapist in New Zealand and the UK and is currently Director of the Master of Music Therapy Programme at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She trained in London with Juliette Alvin, Leslie Bunt and Maggie Pickett (at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and was Head of the Music Therapy Department there from 1991–2004, when she emigrated to Aotearoa with her family. Her PhD (from Victoria and Massey Universities) explored the integration of practice and research in music therapy education. Sarah’s practitioner experience has been in the Probation Service, neurodisability and with children and families. She maintains active musical interests, playing mandolin and mbira and learning oud. Her research interests are in music therapy education and intercultural practice.

Sangeeta Swamy (she/they) is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr Swamy trained in music therapy and transpersonal counseling psychology at Naropa University and received her PhD in expressive arts therapy from Lesley University. A licensed psychotherapist, board-certified music therapist and award-winning violinist, she currently uses Culturally Centred Music and Imagery with adolescents and adults to address ethnic identity conflict and acculturative stress and to negotiate intersectional identities. She is an experienced Vipassana meditator and specialises in culturally responsive pedagogy, scholarship and practice, bringing mindfulness and her lived, intersectional experience into the classroom and music therapy space.

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Professor Michele Forinash PhD: Director, PhD Programme in Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, US.

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