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  • Community Music Therapy

    by Gary Ansdell, Mercedes Pavlicevic ...
    Music therapists from around the world working in conventional and unconventional settings have offered their contributions to this exciting new book, presenting spirited discussion and practical examples of the ways music therapy can reflect and encourage social change. From working with traumatized refugees in Berlin, care-workers and HIV/AIDS orphans in South Africa, to adults with neurological ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies

    A Practical Guide

    by Gary Ansdell, Mercedes Pavlicevic ...
    * Are you about to write a dissertation for an MA in an arts therapy?* Is your workplace pressuring you to do research on your practice?* Do you fancy trying your hand at a bit of research without any pressure from anyone?* Are you bewitched, bothered and bewildered?A mystique about research usually comes from reading a) writers who launch into philosophical dialectics about research and avoid the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Musical Pathways in Recovery

    Community Music Therapy and Mental Wellbeing

    by Gary Ansdell, Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    "Music triggered a healing process from within me. I started singing for the joy of singing myself and it helped me carry my recovery beyond the state I was in before I fell ill nine years ago to a level of well-being that I haven't had perhaps for thirty years."This book explores the experiences of people who took part in a vibrant musical community for people experiencing mental health ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life

    by Gary Ansdell ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Guide to Research Ethics for Arts Therapists and Arts & Health Practitioners

    by Giorgos Tsiris, Camilla Farrant, Mercedes Pavlicevic ...
    This practical guide aims to inspire ethically-aware practitioners to become ethically-aware researchers, evaluators and participants. Conducting a research project, whatever the setting, requires not only knowledge of research methods but also an in-depth understanding of research ethics. Embedded in 'real life' experiences of research ethics applications, this guide navigates the reader through ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Where Music Helps: Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection

    by Brynjulf Stige, Gary Ansdell, Mercédès Pavlicevic ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    This book explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is that help is not a decontextualized effect that music produces. The book contributes to the current discourse on music, culture and society and it is developed in dialogue with related areas of study, such ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Groups in Music

    Strategies from Music Therapy

    by Mercedes Pavlicevic ...
    Music in Groups happens all the time: in the street, the classroom, in music colleges, community centres, hospitals, prisons, churches and concert halls; at raves, weddings, music festivals, public ceremonies, music therapy sessions, group music lessons, concerts and rehearsals.Some group musicking seems to 'work' (and play) better than others; some sessions feel exhausting even if things are ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

    by Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive. Moreover, she suggests that the promotion of health and more specifically ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

    Edited by Jonathan Savage ...
    The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers.The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary writing and contextualises these in both theoretical and practical terms. The extracts are accompanied by a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Music and Altered States

    Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions

    by Dalia Cohen, Lucanne Magill, Tsvia Horesh ...
    This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual and palliative care.The contributors describe the successful use of altered states and their therapeutic potential, providing examples from different cultures and clinical, therapeutic and spiritual ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Receptive Methods in Music Therapy

    Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators and Students

    by Susan B Wesely, Denise Grocke, Tony Wigram, Katerina Stathis, Karin Schou, Emily Shanahan, Karen Hamlett, Matt Holmes, Melina Roberts, Katrina McFerran, Clare Kildea ...
    This practical book describes the specific use of receptive (listening) methods and techniques in music therapy clinical practice and research, including relaxation with music for children and adults, the use of visualisation and imagery, music and collage, song-lyric discussion, vibroacoustic applications, music and movement techniques, and other forms of aesthetic listening to music. The authors ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Reflective Practice

    Writing and Professional Development

    by Russell Delderfield, Gillie E J Bolton ...
    Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated fifth edition of Gillie Bolton’s bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic process for this critical enquiry.New to this edition:An expanded range of exercises and activitiesA new emphasis on using e-portfoliosFurther ... Read more

    $47.69 USD