Presenting a range of perspectives and traditions, this book takes an ecological approach to music therapy practice and includes practices that are collaborative and communal, while focusing on
learning and health promotion. It avoids emphasizing one specific approach and discusses the growth of the field; music therapy practice examples and medical, behavioral, psychodynamic,
humanistic, transpersonal, culture-centered, and music-centered perspectives; sound and music concepts and their use; music therapy in child and adult health, with case narratives added in this
edition and new chapters on adolescents and older adults; professional and community issues; and how music therapy is developing as a discipline. This edition revises the historical and
theoretical perspectives and addresses the increasing evidence and research base. It expands on the discussion of how people of all ages with different needs make use of music; how
relationships and transactions are developed through music; and how the ecology of human development requires awareness about its social, cultural, spiritual, and political contexts. Annotation
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