Clinical applications of music therapy in developmental disability, paediatrics, and neurology / edited by Tony Wigram and Jos De Backer ; foreword by Colwyn Trevarthen.

London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley Publishers, 1999.

312 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword. How music heals / Colwyn Trevarthen -- Part one. Paediatrics. A song of life : improvised songs wioth children with cancer and serious blood disorders / Ann Turry. Indications for the inclusion of music therapy in the care of infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia / Helen Shoemark. Premature birth and music therapy / Monika Nöcker-Ribaupierre -- Part two. Developmental disability. Contact in music : the analysis of musical behaviour in children with communication disorder and pervasive developmental disability for differential diagnosis / Tony Wigram. Music and autism : vocal improvisation as containment of stereotypies / Gianluigi di Franco. Islanders : making connections in music therapy / Claire Flower. Client-centered music therapy for emotionally disturbed teenagers having moderate learning disability / John Strange. The use of creative improvisation and psychodynamic insights in music therapy with an abused child / Pauline Etkin. Orff music therapy with multi-handicapped children / Melanie Voigt. The music, the meaning, and the therapist's dilemma / Sandra Brown.

Part three. Neurology. 'Singing my life, playing my self' : music therapy in the treatment of chronic neurological illness / Wendy Magee. Music therapy in neurosurgical rehabilitation / Simon Gilbertson -- Part four. Aspects of training and clinical supervision. Integrative supervision for music therapists / Isabelle Frohne-Hagemann. Psychoanalytically oriented music theraoy supervision / Janice Dvorkin. Music therapy training : a process to develop the musical and therapeutic identity of the music therapist / Tony Wigram.

Copy 1. Donor: Arts for Health.