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. Providing a detailed insight into the field of music therapy from an international perspective, this book enables the reader to see the complete picture of the multifaceted and fascinating world that is music therapy.

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
	A glossary and lexicon of music therapy

Music for Life - Aspects of Creative Music Therapy with Adult Clients

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1995, Price £17.95. CD Price £11.70

By Gary Ansdell

Creative music therapy has its origins in working with children with special needs. In the last twenty years however, this approach has been used intensively with adult clients - with learning difficulties, chronic illness and mental health and psychosocial problems. Music for Life is the first survey in book form of this work with clients with learning difficulties, neuro-motor damage, Alzheimers Disease, AIDS and psychosomatic problems; work with a coma patient and theoretical chapters. The accompanying CD allows the reader the opportunity to listen to excerpts from case studies described in the book.

Music Therapy

Published by Stainer and Bell, 1966 Price £12.00

By Juliette Alvin

Revised paperback edition of this classic music therapy book, containing several pages of pictures, written by the Founder of the British Society of Music Therapy and the Music Therapy Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Music Therapy

Published by Sage, 2003 Price 18.99

By Rachel Darnley-Smith & Helen M. Patey

Music Therapy is an introduction to contemporary training and practice and a lively source of ideas for all who are new to music therapy as well as practitioners. The authors - both accomplished practitioners and experienced clinical situations and give examples of working with children and adults with differing needs, including autism, learning disabilities and mental health problems. They highlight the many issues which arise in day-to-day practice and explore other aspects of professional life, such as the role of personal therapy and supervision.

The book examines improvisation, the principal method for music therapy in the UK, and points to the underlying assumptions about music which shape this way of working. Two of the main music therapy approaches - Analytic Music Therapy and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy - are also outlined.

For anyone training or thinking of training to be a music therapist, this book provides an ideal place to start. As a guide to contemporary music therapy, it also has much to offer those already in practice.

Music Therapy: An Art Beyond Words

Published by Routledge, 1994, Price £20.99

By Leslie Bunt

Bunt explains the purposes and techniques of music therapy as it is practised today for a wide audience of mental health professionals, not just music therapists, and for all those interested in the use of creative arts in therapy. What has music got to offer a child or adult with a learning difficulty or impairment of any kind? Can music help people overcome or cope with mental health problems? Now a classic book for all those interested in the subject.

The Handbook of Music Therapy

Published by Brunner Routledge, 2002 Price £18.99

Edited by Leslie Bunt and Sarah Hoskyns

Music therapists work with children and adults of all ages with wide-ranging health-care needs. This handbook traces the history of recent developments in music therapy and the range of current applications and outlines practical requirements for the work and some basic prerequisites for and philosophies of training.

The Handbook of Music Therapy covers material encompassing clinical, practical and theoretical perspectives, and is divided into four main sections, including –

	The recent evolution of music therapy as a paramedical discipline complementing the more traditional areas of child and adult health care
	A clinical section including contributions from music therapy specialists in the fields of autism, adult learning disability, forensic psychiatry, neurology and dementia
	A section on resources necessary to practise as a music therapist including musical illustrations and practical examples
	A focus on issues pertinent to the life of the professional music therapist including job creation, supervision, further training and research

Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children

Formerly published by Gollancz, 1971, now Barcelona Publishers, contact BSMT office for price.

By Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins

Recognised on first publication as pioneering book and still a standard work, Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins describe vividly, meticulously and with a sense of exhilaration, the group therapy sessions with children of all levels of receptiveness and ability.

This book offers both inspirational and practical guidance to musicians, therapists and everyone involved in the care of handicapped children.

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