Case Examples of Music Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Emotional or Behavioral Problems
- Author: Bruscia, Kenneth E.
- E-ISBN: 9781937440244
Case examples provide very unique and valuable insights into how different forms of therapy are practiced, as well as how clients respond to those therapies. This e-book contains 12 previously published case studies on how music therapy has been used to help children and adolescents who have emotional or behavioral problems. Each case details the process by which therapist and client engage in music experiences that enable the client to explore and better utilize the personal resources needed to address his or her own therapeutic needs. The aim of the book is to provide practical information to students and professionals in music therapy and related fields and to inform all those affected by children or adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems about the potential benefits of music therapy.
Table of Contents
CASE ONE
Creative Fantasy, Music, and Lyric Improvisation with a Gifted Acting-Out Boy
Kenneth Aigen
CASE TWO
Improvisation and Play in the Therapeutic Engagement of a Five-Year-Old Boy with Physical and Interpersonal Problems
Pamela Bartram
CASE THREE
Punker, Bassgirl, and Dingo-Man: Perspectives on Adolescents in Music Therapy
Jaakko Erkkila
CASE FOUR
Crossing the Divide: Exploring Identities within Communities Fragmented By Gang Violence
Sunelle Fouche and Kerryn Torrance
CASE FIVE
The Boy that Nobody Wanted: Creative Experiences for a Boy with Severe Emotional Problems
Fran Herman
CASE SIX
Group Music Therapy with a Classroom of 6-8 Year-Old Hyperactive-Learning Disabled Children
Julie Hibben
CASE SEVEN
Growing Up Alone: Analytical Music Therapy with Children of Parents Treated Within a Drug and Substance Abuse Program
Juliane Kowski
CASE EIGHT
All Her Yesterdays: An Adolescent's Search for A Better Today through Music
Claire Lefebvre
CASE NINE
The Knight Inside the Armor: Music Therapy with a Deprived Teenager
Simona Katz Nirensztein
CASE TEN
Exploring Issues of Control through Interactive, Improvised Music Making: Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessment and Short Term Treatment with a Mother and Daughter in a Psychiatric Unit
Amelia Oldfield
CASE ELEVEN
Just Don't Do It: A Group's Microjourney into Music and Life
Mercedes Pavlicevic
CASE TWELVE
Being Beverley: Music Therapy with a Troubled Eight-Year-Old Girl
Helen M. Tyler