Including case studies from a range of international music therapists, this book presents a wide range of their creativity and professional skills in working not only with music but also across all modalities. It demonstrates how other forms of play and use of creative arts can be understood and worked with from a music therapy perspective.
With verbal children and families increasingly referred to music therapy, this edited book explores the topic of play in music therapy and sets itself apart by focusing on child-led play and symbolic play.
The book presents a wide range of experienced music therapists' creativity and professional skills in integrating music and expressive arts modalities, from musical, developmental, attachment, and psychodynamic perspectives. Examining the question of how all the expressive arts are intrinsic to music or 'mousike', the chapters explore various styles, clinical and theoretical approaches, providing a deeper understanding of play and symbolic play processes and the different ways they arise and are worked with in music therapy.
Including chapters from diverse settings, and addressing work across age groups with children with emotional difficulties, attachment problems, early trauma, as well as children with autism, this comprehensive book is essential for music and other creative therapists who work with children in all forms of play, expressing their feelings, imaginations and internal worlds.
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Comprehensive book exploring the central topic of play in music therapy
Introduction.
1. 'All the world's a stage' - Forms of play in music
therapy.
2. Setting the stage: Practicalities and preparation for symbolic
play in music therapy.
3. Playing and reality: Winnicott's concepts of
symbolic play and their significance for understanding play in the music
therapy.
4. The 'minute particulars' of improvised play: Sounded dreams.
5.
'Two kinds of music therapy': Exploring 'genre' in the context of clinical
practice in music therapy.
6. Symbolic play in music therapy with disturbed
children: An integrative approach.
7. The relationship between children's
play themes and active music-making in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
8. 'If
I hurt myself, you would take care of me...'
9. Furnishing the musical play
space: The role of songs in music therapy with children and adults.
10. Vocal
Psychotherapy and the play of the Inner Child.
11. 'Will you play with me,
with or without music?'
12. If there is no music, is it music therapy?
13.
Playful music-making with young children with autism and their families.
14.
Embodied mentalizing in music therapy: The use of music and musical form in
the development of symbolic function in children with autistic spectrum
condition.
15. When Baby Gigi danced with an angry Dragon: Symbolic
interactions in the music therapy of an adopted child with multiple
disabilities.
16. 'When can we play?' Thoughts on the use of free
improvisation in music therapy groups with nursery-aged children.
17. Playing
snakes and ladders: Exploring cross-modal collaboration between music therapy
and dance movement psychotherapy in attuning to children with severe learning
disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders.
18. Symbolic play in music
therapy as a window into early childhood attachment difficulties.
19. The
trauma of relating - one little boy's search for self.
20. 'I may be small
but I've got a lot of courage now'.
21. Playful music therapy for the
development of attachment: Healing trauma in adoptive families.
22. The
remembered scream: integrative music therapy with children with early trauma
and PTSD.
23. How children use stories to process early years' traumatic
experiences: music therapy vignettes.
24. Phantasy and playing with reality:
Role play and the use of puppets with adoptive children.
25. 'Now you be the
mummy elephant, and you be dead': Expressions of abrupt, painful separations
in the symbolic play of adopted children in music therapy.
26. The mosaic of
music and play: working with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties
(SEBD) and traumatised adolescents in Hong Kong.
27. 'Our World is all a
Mess': A journey in music therapy towards integration, emotional resilience
and a sense of self.
28. Reflections on children's play with safeguarding
concerns in music therapy: Clinical perspectives and procedures.
29. The art
of supervision: Resonance, technique and reverie.
Jacqueline Z Robarts MA, ARCM, PGCE is a teaching professor on the Guildhall School of Music and Drama MA Music Therapy program, London, and Clinical Tutor at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, London. A former Research Fellow in Music Therapy, City University, London, she worked for many years in NHS children & adolescent mental health, paediatric, and learning disabilities services.
