Music Therapy Groupwork With Special Needs Children

Author : Karen D. Goodman
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Pub Limited
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0398077401

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Music Therapy Groupwork with Special Needs Children by Karen D. Goodman Pdf

Music Therapy Groupwork with Special Needs Children: The Evolving Process, written by Karen D. Goodman, a longstanding educator and clinician, develops the therapist's sensibility to working effectively toward the formation of a cohesive group with children who have different functioning levels, different temperaments and different musical preferences, either in the school setting or the child psychiatric setting. In order to achieve this end, the therapist must assess the current level of functioning in the music therapy context (assessment), consider the variables that help determine group placement vs. individual placement in music therapy, employ different clinical expectations (goals and objectives) for each child, and expect to adapt the presentation of the music and methods while simultaneously encouraging the sense of group. Throughout the eight chapters, Professor Goodman provides multiple clinical vignettes from her 28 years of clinical work, all of which serve to demonstrate her theoretical perspectives. The music therapy vignettes describe preschool and latency-age groups with autistic spectrum disorder, multiple disabilities, or psychiatric diagnoses. Study guide questions follow each chapter. Through The Evolving Process, as the subtitle suggests, not only do the children in the group change as a result of the music therapy process but also so does the therapist in understanding and adapting to the needs of the group. The book presents a combination of beginning, intermediate and advanced level concepts. It respects contributions from varying aspects of theoretical work in an effort to integrate methodology. It is an ideal resource for the student entering the field of music therapy, the therapist beginning to cope with the demands of group practice, the seasoned clinician reconsidering long-standing ways of conducting the group and the allied professional working with the music therapist. Music Therapy Groupwork wit

Author : Karen D. Goodman
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000060781451

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Music Therapy Groupwork with Special Needs Children by Karen D. Goodman Pdf

Author : Alison Davies,Eleanor Richards
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1843100363

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Music Therapy and Group Work by Alison Davies,Eleanor Richards Pdf

Group music therapy has been widely practised for many years, and features substantially in training, yet there has been no publication devoted to the discussion of this area of therapy. This book fills this gap by bringing together the experiences of group music therapy practitioners who work with diverse client groups in various settings.

Author : Amelia Oldfield,Jo Tomlinson,Philippa Derrington
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0857004743

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Music Therapy in Schools by Amelia Oldfield,Jo Tomlinson,Philippa Derrington Pdf

The majority of music therapy work with children takes place in schools. This book documents the wealth and diversity of work that music therapists are doing in educational settings across the UK. It shows how, in recent years, music therapy has changed and grown as a profession, and it provides an insight into the trends that are emerging in this area in the 21st century. Collating the experiences of a range of music therapists from both mainstream and special education backgrounds, Music Therapy in Schools explains the procedures, challenges and benefits of using music therapy in an educational context. These music therapists have worked with children of all ages and abilities from pre-school toddlers in nursery schools to teenagers preparing for further education, and address specific issues and disabilities including working with children with emotional and behavioural problems, and autistic spectrum disorders. This book will be essential reading for music therapists, music therapy students and educational professionals.

Author : Dennis Adams,Mary Hamm
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780398075880

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Redefining Education in the Twenty-first Century by Dennis Adams,Mary Hamm Pdf

The comprehensiveness and detailed presentation of this book will deepen the collective conversation, challenge thinking, and give up-to-date tools that may be used today."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Pat Lloyd
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 184642724X

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Let's All Listen by Pat Lloyd Pdf

Music provides a unique and powerful means of promoting communication and social interaction in students with learning difficulties. In this collection, Pat Lloyd brings together 46 songs composed or adapted for use with children with communication problems. Each of the songs features a vocal line and piano accompaniment and can be listened to on the audio CD included with the book. Simplified guitar versions are also provided for a selection of the songs. Pat Lloyd provides suggestions for how each song can be used and developed to encourage communication and social interaction, and lists a range of possible objectives for each one. Advocating a flexible approach, she demonstrates how musical activity can be adapted easily and successfully to the specific needs of individual students. Enjoyable and easy to use, this is an ideal resource for specialist and non-specialist music instructors working to improve the communication and social skills of students with learning difficulties, including those with additional autism.

Author : Alice Hammel,Ryan M. Hourigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Children with disabilities
ISBN : 9780190654696

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Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs by Alice Hammel,Ryan M. Hourigan Pdf

With new vignettes from practicing music educators, in addition to an updated list of resources, this Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers new ways to navigate special needs in the music classroom. As a practical guide and reference manual, this book addresses special needs in the broadest possible sense to equip teachers with proven, research-based curricular strategies that are grounded in both best practice and current special education law. Chapters address the full range of topics and issues music educators face, including parental involvement, student anxiety, field trips and performances, and assessment strategies, Teaching Music to Students with Special NEeds is now publisherd alongside an accompanying Practical Resource (available separately) that includes lesson plans, worksheets, and games for classroom use. -- Publisher's description.

Author : Paul Nordoff,Clive Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Children with disabilities
ISBN : UOM:39015000851108

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Music Therapy in Special Education by Paul Nordoff,Clive Robbins Pdf

Author : Claire Flower,Amelia Oldfield
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1846428017

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Music Therapy with Children and their Families by Claire Flower,Amelia Oldfield Pdf

In the past, music therapy work with children typically took place in special schools without the family being present. More recently, music therapy has become a widespread practice, and this book reflects the variety of settings within which music therapists are now working with children together with their families. The contributors are music therapists with experience of working with children and their families in a range of different environments, such as schools, hospices, psychiatric units, child development centres and in the community. They describe their approaches to family work with client groups including children with autism, learning disabled toddlers, adopted children and looked after teenagers. Their experiences demonstrate that involving the family in a child's music therapy can be beneficial for everyone, and that it is possible to address relationship issues within the family as part of the treatment. This book will provide useful insight into the growing area of music therapy with children and their families, and will be valuable for music therapy professionals and students, as well as other medical and teaching professionals who work with families.

Author : Gary McPherson,Graham F. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190674441

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Special Needs, Community Music, and Adult Learning by Gary McPherson,Graham F. Welch Pdf

"Volume editors: Chelcy L. Bowles, David J. Elliott, David E. Myers, & Adam Ockelford"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Frans W. Schalkwijk
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1853022268

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Music and People with Developmental Disabilities by Frans W. Schalkwijk Pdf

The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work. Each method is described in terms of the clinical indications, the objectives set and the choice of techniques and musical instruments, and is illustrated through the use of case study. The final chapter draws conclusions for both theory and practice.

Author : Eleanor Richards,Alison Davies
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781846423413

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Music Therapy and Group Work by Eleanor Richards,Alison Davies Pdf

'The fascinating and diverse descriptions contained in this text begin the process of developing indigenous understandings of music therapy in group work and alert the reader to issues for future exploration. A fascinating text, describing a range of clients - I highly recommend it.' - Nordic Journal of Music Therapy Group music therapy has been widely practised for many years, especially within institutional settings, and features substantially in training, yet there has been no publication devoted to the discussion of this area of therapy. Music Therapy and Group Work fills this gap by bringing together the experiences of group music therapy practitioners who work with diverse client groups in various settings. Whilst acknowledging that the practice of group music therapy incorporates many theoretical and practical issues in common with those of mainstream group work, the editors emphasize that this field needs to develop some further theoretical discourse of its own, primarily because its main contrast from regular group work is that it draws on a non-verbal medium alongside the ordinary verbal exchange. The book combines clinical examples with theory to provide a comprehensive introduction to group music therapy. Practitioners not only of music therapy, but also those working in related disciplines, will find this to be an informative and stimulating read.

Author : Wanda B. Lathom-Radocy
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : MEDICAL
ISBN : 9780398087890

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PEDIATRIC MUSIC THERAPY by Wanda B. Lathom-Radocy Pdf

The book includes relevant medical, psychological, and developmental information to help service providers and parents to understand children with disabilities. In this revised edition, the author has updated or eliminated some of the medical information and added more related music therapy literature. This book can be used as a valuable handbook for clinicians. Also, it may be used as a primary or supplemental textbook in classes to prepare music therapy students to work with children who have disabilities. All music therapy students who complete an undergraduate curriculum should know the characteristics and common needs of the major disabilities discussed in this book. In addition, class work and clinical experiences must include basic techniques and materials used to accomplish the goals and objectives set for each child. This is addressed in a manner that will be useful to all personnel working with children with disabilities.The first two chapters describe the process of assessment and delineation of goals in music therapy, which leads to the design of the music therapy portion of the IEP or care plan. Subsequent evaluation allows progress to be stated objectively. The remaining chapters describe each population of children to be served, with emphasis on medical and psychological characteristics unique to each population, and specific goals and procedures to be used in music therapy. The CAMEOS model is used in this book to address the child’s Communication, Academic, Motor, Emotional, Organizational, and Social needs and ways these may be addressed through music therapy. Whether the child is homebound, included in regular classes, seen in a resource room or special education program, or in hospital care, he/she has needs that can be described within the CAMEOS model. Music therapy may provide service in each of these areas.

Author : Geoff Barnes
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807781098

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Music Therapy With Preschool Children on the Autism Spectrum by Geoff Barnes Pdf

With close to 1 million children on the autism spectrum enrolled in U.S. schools, educators need effective interventions that promote young learners’ abilities and build cohesiveness in complex classroom groups. Drawing upon video recordings from 16 months in a public preschool classroom, this book depicts the emerging relationships and abilities that develop through musical play with children on the autism spectrum. Barnes explores connections among students, teachers, and a music therapist; broader questions about the needs of young children; and the benefits of incorporating music therapy in early childhood education and school-based autism services. In vivid narratives, readers follow individual preschoolers through their challenges and their steps toward shared attention, interpersonal interaction, and communication during music. This important book raises key issues about autism supports and therapies, and offers encouraging alternatives to prevailing educational and therapeutic methods. Features: Chronicles the first two-year research study inside a music therapy group for preschoolers on the spectrum in a U.S. public school.Provides lucid personal portrayals of young children, teachers, and a music therapist.Explores the challenges and encouraging possibilities of helping young children through music.Describes the use of picture schedules, augmentative and alternative communication devices, musical instruments, percussion rhythms, and visual and tactile materials in music sessions.Presents children’s engagement in vocal interplay, turn-taking, theme-and-variation exchanges, and reciprocal expressions of emotion in early childhood education.

Author : Jenni Rook,Rebecca West,Jeffrey Wolfe,Pan Ho,Alana Dennis,Yayoi Nakai-Hosoe
Publisher : JKP
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781849059855

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Music Therapy Social Skills Assessment and Documentation Manual (MTSSA) by Jenni Rook,Rebecca West,Jeffrey Wolfe,Pan Ho,Alana Dennis,Yayoi Nakai-Hosoe Pdf

This comprehensive handbook provides adaptable assessment and documentation processes for social skill development in music therapy group sessions for children with developmental disabilities. It also includes a CD-ROM of forms and tools, as well as songs that help to facilitate social interaction.