Music therapy with children and their families

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2008

Music therapy with children and their families.

Ed. by Amelia Oldfield and Claire Flower.

Jessica Kingsley Pub.

2008

206 pages

$34.95

Paperback

ML3920

In this volume, music therapists from the UK contribute 10 essays on working with children and their families in clinics, child development centers, inpatient psychiatric units, private practice, and schools and relating to a variety of issues such as learning disabilities, autism, trauma, adoption, and attachment, as well as hospice patients. Emphasis in the case studies is placed on involving the family in the child's therapy. Oldfield (Anglia Ruskin U., UK) and Flower are both music therapists in the UK.

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