Music and People with Developmental Disabilities: Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities
The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work. Each method is described in terms of the clinical indications, the objectives set and the choice of techniques and musical instruments, and is illustrated through the use of case study. The final chapter draws conclusions for both theory and practice.
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Music and People with Developmental Disabilities: Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities
The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work. Each method is described in terms of the clinical indications, the objectives set and the choice of techniques and musical instruments, and is illustrated through the use of case study. The final chapter draws conclusions for both theory and practice.
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Music and People with Developmental Disabilities: Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities

Music and People with Developmental Disabilities: Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities

by Frans W Schalkwijk
Music and People with Developmental Disabilities: Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities

Music and People with Developmental Disabilities: Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities

by Frans W Schalkwijk

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Overview

The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work. Each method is described in terms of the clinical indications, the objectives set and the choice of techniques and musical instruments, and is illustrated through the use of case study. The final chapter draws conclusions for both theory and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781853022265
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 03/01/1994
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Frans Schalkwijk studied psychology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He continued for a number of years in studying the organ at the Sweelinck Conservatorium of Amsterdam. He is a freelance psychotherapist and a researcher into Music Therapy at the Nijmegen Hoogeschool.

He became a doctor at the Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven with the doctoral thesis, Muziektherapie met geestelijk gehandicapten. Besides various articles, he has published Grondslagen van Muziektherapie and was a joint-editor of the anthology Methoden van Muziektherapie.

Table of Contents

Preface. 1. A description of the research methods and a review of developments in the use of music in caring for people with a developmental disability. 2. General characteristics and specific forms of therapy through the medium of music making. Therapy is a consciously planned activity. What do we mean by musical activities? What do we mean by remedial music making? What do we mean by music therapy? Concluding remark. 3. Individual treatment. When should individual treatment be offered? Individual music therapy. Individual remedial music making. Concluding remark. 4. Group treatment. When should group treatment be offered? Remedial music making as a means of developing social skills. Remedial music making and the stimulation of motor and cognitive skills. 5. In conclusion. What theoretical conclusions can be drawn from this study? To qualify what has been said thus far. An overview. Bibliography.
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