Songwriting: Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students

Table of contents

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• Songwriting 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Foreword - Soundtracks of Our Life 9
• Introduction - Songwriting as Therapy 11
• 1: Improvised Songs and Stories in Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessments at a Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry a Music Therapist's and a Psychotherapist's Perspective 24
• 2: You Ask Me Why I'M Singing Song-Creating with Children at a Child and Family Psychiatric Unit 45
• 3: Teenagers and Songwriting Supporting Students in a Mainstream Secondary School 68
• 4: Giving a Voice to Childhood Trauma Through Therapeutic Songwriting 82
• 5: Collaborations on Songwriting with Clients with Mental Health Problems 97
• 6: Songwriting to Explore Identity Change and Sense of Self-Concept Following Traumatic Brain Injury 116
• 7: Working with Impairments in Pragmatics Through Songwriting Following Traumatic Brain Injury 134
• 8: Assisting Children with Malignant Blood Diseases to Create and Perform Their Own Songs 154
• 9: Songwriting with Adult Patients in Oncology and Clinical Haematology Wards 180
• 10: The Music Therapist as Singer-Songwriter Applications with Bereaved Teenagers 206
• 11: Songwriting with Oncology and Hospice Adult Patients from a Multicultural Perspective 224

• Songwriting 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Foreword - Soundtracks of Our Life 9
• Introduction - Songwriting as Therapy 11
• 1: Improvised Songs and Stories in Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessments at a Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry a Music Therapist's and a Psychotherapist's Perspective 24
• 2: You Ask Me Why I'M Singing Song-Creating with Children at a Child and Family Psychiatric Unit 45
• 3: Teenagers and Songwriting Supporting Students in a Mainstream Secondary School 68
• 4: Giving a Voice to Childhood Trauma Through Therapeutic Songwriting 82
• 5: Collaborations on Songwriting with Clients with Mental Health Problems 97
• 6: Songwriting to Explore Identity Change and Sense of Self-Concept Following Traumatic Brain Injury 116
• 7: Working with Impairments in Pragmatics Through Songwriting Following Traumatic Brain Injury 134
• 8: Assisting Children with Malignant Blood Diseases to Create and Perform Their Own Songs 154
• 9: Songwriting with Adult Patients in Oncology and Clinical Haematology Wards 180
• 10: The Music Therapist as Singer-Songwriter Applications with Bereaved Teenagers 206
• 11: Songwriting with Oncology and Hospice Adult Patients from a Multicultural Perspective 224
• 12: Songwriting Methods – Similarities and Differences Developing a Working Model 246
• References 265
• Contributors 272
• Subject Index 276
• Author Index 284