Community Music Therapy

In this first book on the emerging area of Community Music Therapy, music therapists from around the world who work in conventional and unconventional settings offer practical examples and spirited discussion of the ways music therapy can reflect and encourage social change. From working with traumatized refugees in Berlin, care-workers and HIV/AIDS orphans in South Africa, adults with neurological disabilities in south-east England, to children in paediatric hospitals in Norway, the contributors present their global perspectives on finding new ways forward in music therapy with a diverse variety of client groups.
Reflecting on traditional approaches in addition to these newer practices, the writers offer fresh perceptions on their identity and role as music therapists, their assumptions and attitudes about how music, people and context interact, the sites and boundaries to their work, and the new possibilities for music therapy in the 21st century.