This comprehensive and groundbreaking book describes the effective use of songwriting in music therapy with a variety of client populations, from children with cancer and adolescents in secondary school to people with traumatic brain injury and mental health problems. The authors explain the specific considerations to bear in mind when working with particular client groups to achieve the best clinical outcomes. All the contributors are experienced music therapy clinicians and researchers. They provide many case examples from clinical practice to illustrate the therapeutic methods being used, together with notated examples of songs produced in therapy. Particular emphasis is placed on how lyrics and music are created, including the theoretical approaches underpinning this process. This practical book will prove indispensable to students, clinical therapists, music therapists, educators, teachers and musicians.
Author(s): Felicity Baker, Tony Wigram, Prof Even Ruud
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Year: 2005
Language: English
Commentary: 52720
Pages: 287
Cover......Page 1
Songwriting:
Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for
Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators and Students......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword:
Soundtracks of our life......Page 11
Introduction:
Songwriting as Therapy......Page 13
1 Improvised Songs and Stories in Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessments at a Unit for Child and Fa mily Psychiatry:
A Music Therapist’s and a Psychotherapist’s Perspective......Page 26
2
You Ask Me Why I’m Singing:
Song-creating with Children at a Child and
Family Psychiatric Unit......Page 47
3
Teenagers and Songwriting:
Supporting Students
in a Mainstream Secondary School......Page 70
4
Giving a Voice to Childhood Trauma
through Therapeutic Songwriting......Page 84
5
Collaborations on Songwriting
with Clients with Mental Health Problems......Page 99
6
Songwriting to Explore Identity Change
and Sense of Self-concept Following
Traumatic Brain Injury......Page 118
7
Working with Impairments
in Pragmatics through Songwriting
following Traumatic Brain Injury......Page 136
8
Assisting Children with Malignant
Blood Diseases to Create
and Perform their Own Songs......Page 156
9
Songwriting with Adult Patients in
Oncology and Clinical Haematology Wards......Page 182
10
The Music Therapist as Singer-songwriter:
Applications with Bereaved Teenagers......Page 208
11
Songwriting with Oncology
and Hospice Adult Patients
from a Multicultural Perspective......Page 226
12
Songwriting Methods – Similarities
and Differences:
Developing a Working Model......Page 248
REFERENCES
......Page 267
THE CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 274
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 278
AUTHOR INDEX
......Page 286
