| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| Acknowledgements |
v |
| Dedication |
vii |
| Preface |
ix |
| Unit One: Introduction |
|
The Fundamentals of Music Therapy Practice
By Kenneth E. Brusica |
3 |
| Unit Two: Case Studies with Children |
|
1. Like Singing With
A Bird:
Improvisational Music Therapy With
A Blind Four-Year-Old
By Jo Salas and David Gonzalez
|
17 |
2. The Use of Piano Improvisation
In Developing Interaction And Participation
In a Blind Boy with Behavioral Disturbances
By Helen Shoemark
|
29 |
3.
Music Therapy For A Girl With Rett’s Syndrome:
Balancing Structure and Freedom
By Tony Wigram
|
39 |
4. Self-Communications In Creative Music
Therapy
By Carol Robbing and Clive Robbins |
55 |
5. Off-Beat Music Therapy:
By Edith Lecourt |
73 |
6. The Boy That Nobody Wanted:
Creative Experiences For A Boy
With Severe Emotional Problems
By Fran Herman |
99 |
7. Creative Fantasy, Music And Lyric
Improvisation
With A Gifted Acting-Out Boy
By Kenneth Aigen |
109 |
8. Music Therapy In Working Through
A Preschooler’s Grief:
Expressing Rage and Confusion
By Kerry Burke |
127 |
9. Improvisation And Play In The Therapeutic
Engagement Of A Five-Year-Old Boy
With Physical and Interpersonal Problems
By Pamela Bartram |
137 |
10. The Use Of Latin Music, Puppetry,
And Visualization
In Reducing The Physical And Emotional Pain
Of A Child With Severe Burns
By Rebecca Loveszy |
153 |
11. Preverbal Communication Through
Music
To Overcome A Child’s Language Disorder
By Amelia Oldfield |
163 |
12. Group Music Therapy With A Classroom
Of
6-8 Year-Old Hyperactive-Learning Disabled Children
By Julie Hibben |
175 |
13. The Effect of Prorammed Pitch Practice
and Private
Instruction On The Vocal Reproduction Accuracy
Of Hearing Impaired Children: Two Case Studies
By Alice-Ann Darrow and Nicki Cohen |
191 |
| Unit Three: Case Studies With Adolescents |
|
14. Improvised Song Stories
In The Treatment Of
A 13-Year-Old Sexually Abused Girl From
The Xhosa Tribe In South Africa
By Helen Henderson |
207 |
15. All Her Yesterdays: An Adolescent’s
Search
For A Better Today Through Music
By Claire Lefebvre |
219 |
16. Creative Music Therapy In Bringing
Order,
Change And Communicativeness To The Life
Of A Brain-Injured Adolescent
By Clive Robbins and Carol Robbins |
231 |
17. Individual Music Therapy For An
Adolescent
With Borderline Personality Disorder:
An Object Relations Approach
By Janice Dvorkin |
251 |
| Unit Four: Case Studies With Adults |
|
18. Mia’s Fourteenth—The
Symphony of Fate:
Psychodynamic Improvisation Therapy With
A Music Therapy Student In Training
By Benedikte Barth Scheiby |
271 |
19. The Musical Mirror: Music Therapy
For The Narcissistically Injured
By Diane Snow Austin |
291 |
20. Guided Imagery and Music (GIM):
Healing The Wounded Healer
By Rhonda Lineburg Rinker |
309 |
21. Emergence of The Adult Self In
Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Therapy
By Marilyn F. Clark |
321 |
22. The Use of Musical Space With
An Adult In Psychotherapy
By Carolyn Kenny |
333 |
23. Improvisation And Guided Imagery
And Music (GIM)
With A Physically Disabled Woman:
A Gestalt Approach
By Elizabeth Moffitt |
347 |
| Unit Five: Case Studies With Adults
in Psychiatric Treatment |
|
24. Original Song Drawings In The Treatment
Of
A Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Adult
By Rosemary Fischer |
359 |
25. Music Therapy For A Nonverbal Autistic
Adult
By Ginger Clarkson |
373 |
26. Musical Improvisation In The Treatment
Of A man
With Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
By Jose van den Hurk and Henk Smeijsters |
387 |
27. Integrated Music Therapy With A
Schizophrenic Woman
By Gabriella Giordanella Perilli |
403 |
28. Group Improvisation Therapy:
The Experience Of One Man With Schizophrenia
By Helen Odell Miller |
417 |
29. Composition, Improvisation and Poetry
In The
Psychiatric Treatment Of A Forensic Patient
By Phyllis Boone |
433 |
30. Group Improvisation Therapy For
A Resistant
Woman With Bipolar Disorder –Manic
By Paul Nolan |
451 |
31. Group Music Therapy In Acute Psychiatric
Care:
The Treatment Of A Depressed Woman
Following Neurological Trauma
By Marcia Murphy |
465 |
32. The Song-Writing Process: A Woman’s
Struggle
Against Depression and Suicide
By Georgia Hudson Smith |
479 |
33. Guided Imagery And Music (GIM) With
A
Dually Diagnosed woman Having Multiple Addictions
By Eugenia Pickett |
497 |
34. Group Music Therapy For Women
With Multiple Personalities
By C. John Duey |
513 |
| Unit Six: Case Studies With adults In
Medical Treatment |
|
35. Music Therapy At Childbirth
By Dianne Allison |
529 |
36. Reclaiming A Positive Identity:
Music Therapy In The Aftermath Of A Stroke
By Nancy McMaster |
547 |
37. Rehabilitation of Piano Performance
Skills
Following A Left Cerebral Vascular Accident
By Denise Erdonmez |
561 |
38. Music Therapy For A Severly Regressed
Person
With A Probable Diagnosis Of Alzheimer’s Disease
By Alicia Clair |
571 |
39. Embracing Life With AIDS: Psychotherapy
Through Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)
By Kenneth E. Bruscia |
581 |
40. Songs In Palliative Care: A Spouse’s
Last Gift
By Jane Whittall |
603 |
41. Life Review With A Palliative Care
Patient
By Cheryl Beggs |
611 |
42. Music Therapy At The End Of A Life
By Jenny A. Martin |
617 |
| Appendices |
|
| A. Clinical Conditions Addressed in
Case Studies |
635 |
| B. Clinical Settings of Case Studies |
636 |
| C. Music Therapy Methods Used in Case
Studies |
637 |
| D. Theoretical Orientations in Case
Studies |
638 |