Full Description
This textbook aims to provide practical and comprehensive guidance on the application of music and music therapy in clinical settings. The chapters are written with an evidence-based approach. The first part of the volume defines the psychological, biological, and neuroscientific basis of the therapeutic use of music.
Then, various chapters describe the main application techniques (both active and receptive) exploring their therapeutic rationale, purposes, applications in preventive and therapeutic-rehabilitation settings, and possible methods of assessment. An overview of the main clinical areas addressed by music-based therapeutic interventions is also presented, including references to scientific literature, systematic and meta-analytic reviews as well as studies with rigorous methodologies (Randomized Controlled Trials). The final chapter focuses on research, outlining the current state of the art and possible future scenarios within this specific context.
The authors of this book are scholars and practitioners in music therapy and related disciplines with recognized experience in clinical and research settings.
This book will be an invaluable tool for individuals with an interest in music therapy and its application in clinical settings, such as students studying music therapy, practicing music therapists, researchers, and professionals in related disciplines.
Contents
Preface.- Introduction: What can we consider music therapy?.- Part I: Psychological, neuroscientific, and biological bases of therapeutic use of music.- 1. The contribution of music psychology to music therapy.- 2. Music under the lens of neuroscience.- 3. Neuro-biological bases of music therapy and music-based interventions.- Part II: The Techniques: active music therapy approaches.- 4. Proposals for structured active music therapy and improvisation.- 5. Songwriting Techniques in Music Therapy.- 6. The Neurologic Music Therapy.- 7. Other music-based approaches in rehabilitation and sonification techniques.- Part III: The Techniques: receptive music therapy approaches.- 8. Receptive Music Therapy Techniques.- 9. Towards a New Model of Music Listening: The Therapeutic Music Listening.- Part IV: How to carry out a music-based or music therapy treatment.- 10. Music therapy treatment: from the beginning to the conclusion.- Part V: Fields of application.- 11. Music therapy and music-based interventions in neurology and neurological rehabilitation.- 12. Music therapy and music-based intervention in psychiatry.- 13. The importance of Music in Children's Development.- 14. Music therapy and music-based interventions in oncology and end-of-life care.- 15. Music therapy and music-based interventions in pain medicine.- 16. A systematic review of music therapy and music based interventions in healthcare applications: surgery, NICU, and dementia care in acute settings and transition.- 17. A systematic review of music therapy and music based interventions in healthcare applications: eating disorders, work-related stress, homelessness, artists and concerts in music and medicine.- Part VI: The research in the field of music-based and music therapy interventions.- 18. Music therapy and research: qualitative and quantitative points of view.- 19. Make the invisible visible -towards process-based outcome research on mechanisms of change in music therapy.
