Receptive Methods in Music Therapy

Denise Grocke is Associate Professor and Head of Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She directs the undergraduate and graduate programmes in music therapy and the Graduate Diploma in Guided Imagery and Music (Bonny Method), and is Director of the National Music Therapy Research Unit. She is co-editor of two books, and author of many chapters and articles on music therapy and Guided Imagery and Music. She is a former President of the World Federation of Music Therapy and a current member of the Advisory Board of the doctoral program in music therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Tony Wigram was Professor and Head of PhD Studies in Music Therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Reader in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He was Associate Editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and a former President of both the European Music Therapy Confederation and the World Federation of Music Therapy. He was also Head Music Therapist at the Harper Children's Service in Hertfordshire, UK, and Research Advisor to Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust.

• Foreword by Cheryl Dileo. Introduction. 1. Engaging with clients verbally and musically. 2. Selecting music for receptive methods. 3. Receptive methods and relaxation for children and adolescents. 4. Receptive Methods and Relaxation for adults 5. Visualisations and imagery with music 6. Song lyric discussion, reminiscence and life review 7. Perceptual listening in Intellectual disability and Music appreciation in Adults. 8. Collage. 9. Vibroacoustic therapy in Receptive Music Therapy. 10 Movement to Music Appendix. Discography of music. References. Subject index. Author index.

this book now presents us with an opportunity to discover the huge range of practice in receptive music therapy. The authors offer their receptive music therapy methods with conviction and the book could be a real challenge to orthodox thinking and teaching in the UK. Listening to music forms part of many sessions anyway: perhaps it is time to include consciously this "third arm" of music therapy.