Conceptualizing Music Therapy: Five Areas that Frame the Field

Title
Conceptualizing Music Therapy: Five Areas that Frame the Field
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Edwards, Jane
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2705-8478
Email: jedwar51@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jedwar51
Editor
Editor(s): Jane Edwards
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639755.013.32
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/28011
Abstract
Answering the question "what is music therapy?" briefly and comprehensively can be challenging for new students entering training. Most seasoned practitioners can present a few short sentences to sum up their work but when starting out it can feel awkward and confronting having chosen a wonderful profession to encounter difficulty in explaining it to others. Loewy (2001) has advised that responding to questions is part of our everyday lives as music therapists. She wrote, "we have to explain and show rather than roll our eyes, hide or become introverted" (p. 4) reflecting that many practitioners learn how to explain music therapy to others by describing a recent event from their practice in which the use of music made a difference; supporting or helping a client in some way.
Link
Citation
The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy, p. 1-13
ISBN
9780198817147
0198817142
9780199639755
0199639752
Start page
1
End page
13

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