Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice

Roles, Relationships, Challenges

John Strange, Helen Odell-Miller, Eleanor Richards

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781849057028
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784502232
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Relating the innovative ways in which assistants and collaborators can become an integral part of a course of music therapy, this book explores how the involvement of a diverse range of individuals, such as family members, learning support assistants, caregivers and medical staff, can contribute to successful sessions. Illustrated by clinical examples, the book will help music therapists and students to make the most of opportunities to collaborate with individuals other than the client who may be present during therapy sessions. The book also takes into account the challenges that can arise in music therapy collaboration, and explores the relationships that can develop between music therapists, clients and collaborators.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Assistants as Interaction Partners: The Experience of Learning Support Assistants in Group Music Therapy
• 2. Music Therapists’ Experiences of Working with Staff in Sessions
• 3. Student Perspectives on Working with Assistants on Placement During Vocational Music Therapy Training
• 4. Involving Family Members Who Are Primary Carers in Music Therapy Sessions with Children with Special Needs
• 5. Exploring the Significance of the Role of Assistants in Music Therapy Groups in Adult and Older People’s Mental Health Settings
• 6. ‘Let Them Bring Their Own Song’: A Qualitative Study of Developing Relationships Between Care Staff and Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Through Music Therapy and Dance Movement Therapy Groups
• 7. Caregivers’ Dual Role in Music Therapy to Manage Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia
• 8. Psychodynamic Group Music Therapy Facilitates Carers to Become Auxiliary Music Therapists: A Case Study and Methodological Analysis
• 9. Supporting the Unplanned Journey: Music Therapy as a Developmental Resource with People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities and Their Carers and Staff
• 10. From Assistance to Co-Therapy: On the Role of the Co-Therapist in Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy
• 11. Music and Attuned Movement Therapy: How the Facilitator Mediates Between Client and Therapist
• 12. ‘Music and Movement’: Integrated Music Therapy and Physiotherapy for People with Severe Physical Disabilities at Risk of Developing Fixed Deformities
• 13. Improvised Music to Support Client–Assistant Interaction: The Perceptions of Music Therapists
• 14. Who Knows Me Best?: Exploring the Collaborative Roles of Transient Practitioners and Constant Practitioners in Music Therapy
• 15. An Inclusion Group for Primary School Pupils With and Without Profound Learning Disability
• 16. Building Musical Bridges in Paediatric Hospital Departments
• 17. Someone Else in the Room: Welcome or Unwelcome?: An Attachment Perspective
• 18. Valuing Human Resources: Training, Service Development, Research: The Way Forward
• Appendix
• Contributors
• Subject Index
• Author Index
• Acknowledgement
• Copyright
• Of Related Interest
• Endorsements