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Music Therapy Research and Practice Medicine

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In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging volume, David Aldridge explores the power of music as a healing treatment for a broad scope of physical and mental conditions which includes AIDS, cancer, comas, multiple sclerosis, senile dementia and children with developmental disabilities. It is invaluable reading not only for music therapists but also creative arts therapists, occupational therapists, healthcare professionals and any other professionals who work with chronically, fatally or mentally ill patients.
Getting started; health as performance; communication and the playing of improvised music; music therapy research in the medical literature; aesthetics and the individual in the practice of research; single case designs for the creative music therapists; shared meanings; music therapy and inflammatory bowel disease; music therapy with the elderly; hope, meaning and music therapy in the treatment of life-threatening illness; creative music therapy in the treatment of children with developmental delay; the credible practitioner in the community of inquiry.
This is a book that will be of use to any professional interested in asking questions about their work, and will be of particular relevance to those undertaking research. This is a thorough but also a personal book that contains much of Aldridge's own philosophy of research in general and music therapy in particular. Most importantly it encourages research at all levels into the challenging complex area of clinical music therapy. By including a mixture of the theoretical and the personal in this way, this book should serve to encourage and support any professional considering research for the first time.
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