Comprehensive Guide To Music Therapy, A

Description:
Music therapists, as in medical and paramedical professions, have a rich diversity of approaches and methods, often developed with specific relevance to meet the needs of a certain client population. This book reflects the many components of such diversity, and is a thoroughly comprehensive guide to accessing and understanding the ideas, theory, research results and clinical outcomes that are the foundations of this field.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to music therapy; theoretical foundations of music therapy; models and methods of music therapy; music therapy in clinical practice; music therapy research and clinical assessment; music therapy training - a Bachelor's/Master's model; professional and technical resources.

Author Biography:
Tony Wigram is the professor of music therapy and head of PhD studies in music therapy in the Institute for Music and Music Therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Inge Nygaard Pedersen is the head of the Music Therapy Clinic in Aalborg, a centre for treatment and research that is run by the University of Aalborg and Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital. Lars Ole Bonde is an associate professor on the music therapy programme at Aalborg University.