Music Therapy With Adults With Learning Disabilities

by Watson, Tessa

• ISBN13: 9780203946541
• ISBN10: 0203946545
• Copyright: 2007-06-07
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities explores how music therapists work in partnership with people with learning disabilities to encourage independence and empowerment, and to address a wide variety of everyday issues and difficulties. Comprehensive and wide-ranging, this book describes in detail the role and work of the music therapist with adults with learning disabilities. Many clinical examples are used, including casework with people with autism, Asperger's syndrome, profound and multiple learning disabilities and a dual diagnosis of learning disability and mental health problems. The book also explores issues of teamwork and collaborative working, considering how music therapists and their colleagues can best work together. The chapters are grouped into four sections: an introduction to current music therapy work and policy in the area, clinical work with individuals, clinical work with groups, and collaborative and teamwork. Guidelines for good practice are also provided. This is a thought-provoking and topical text for all those involved in work with adults with learning disabilities. It is essential reading for music therapists and fellow professionals, carers, policymakers and students. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Valuing people: a new framework	p. 5
Music therapy with adults with learning disabilities: sharing stories	p. 18
Music therapy and autistic spectrum disorder	p. 33
Challenging behaviour: working with the blindingly obvious	p. 47
'What bit of my head is talking now?': music therapy with people with learning disabilities and mental illness	p. 58
Friendship and group work	p. 71
Community, culture and group work	p. 85
Working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in music therapy	p. 98
Looking in from the outside: communicating effectively about music therapy work	p. 112
Multidisciplinary working and collaborative working in music therapy	p. 121
Guidelines for good practice for music therapists	p. 133
Useful organizations and websites	p. 137
References	p. 140
Index	p. 157
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