Full Description
The role of music in health and wellbeing journeys is a collection of stories exploring the transformative role of music in people's lives. Through diverse experiences, this book highlights music's capacity to foster connection, wellbeing, health, and personal growth, making it a valuable resource for health, music, and therapeutic communities.
Readers will discover compelling narratives that demonstrate the profound impact of music in health and wellbeing contexts, from chronic illness to mental health recovery, and end-of-life care. Alongside personal accounts, professional reflections offer thoughtful insights into how music can be a catalyst for hope and change. This book provides practical ideas for integrating music into care and therapeutic settings while considering the experiences of those on health journeys.
This book is essential reading for healthcare professionals, music therapists, educators, arts and health professionals, and anyone curious about music's ability to contribute to health and wellbeing, as well as those interested in how music can connect us to ourselves and each other.
Contents
Introduction
Part I Exposition: Stories and experiences
1. Behind the Bars: A narrative exploration of the use of song writing in an Irish prison context, 2. Breaking the trauma of silence: A dialogical narrative of the experience of an online music therapy project, 3. Finding harmony in the high tide: How music supported me through chronic pain and raising four children, 4. Healing Rhythms: The Interplay of Music, Cultural Identity, and Psychosocial Support in Black Men's Prostate Cancer Recovery, 5. You can do anything that you set your mind to: The self-reflexive journey of a queer music therapist and the creation of Expressive Music Journaling, 6. Nomsa's coming back to life, stronger than the pain: the role of music in one woman's experience in a residential mental health service, 7. I'd sooner have it not knowing: Co-creation in music therapy improvisation, 8. Integrative music-centred psychotherapy with a child after a traumatic loss, 9. Daddy's Girl: The impact of music therapy on the trauma of a five-year-old schoolgirl, 10. Music as a key to contact between persons with dementia living in care homes and their family caregivers, 11. Salt in My Blood: Song writing at the end of life
Part II Development: Insights and Reflections
12. Voices and values in music and health journeys: Embodiment, social constructionism, and deconstruction as a theoretical basis, 13. Music Making as the performance of relationships in a community context, 14. Beyond the expert: Creative health, music, and artificial intelligence, 15. With hope for epistemic justice in music therapy, 16. Self-perception and identity for the Global Majority in music education spaces and the impact on health and wellbeing, 17. A therapist's reflection on implementing a comprehensive music-based care plan for people with dementia
18. Recapitulation: Learning and hope
