Music Therapy with Adults with Learning Disabilities explores how music therapists work in partnership with people with learning disabilities to encourage independence and empowerment while addressing a wide variety of everyday issues and difficulties. Comprehensive and wide-ranging, this book describes in detail the role and work of the music therapist with adults with learning disabilities. It is essential reading for music therapists and fellow professionals, carers, policy makers, and students.
Key Features
- Describes clinical examples, including casework with individuals with autism, Asperger’s syndrome, profound and multiple learning disabilities, and dual diagnosis of learning disability and mental health problems.
- Explores issues of teamwork and collaborative working among music therapists and their colleagues.
- Organised into four sections: introduction to current music therapy work and policy, clinical work with individuals, clinical work with groups, and collaboration and teamwork.
- Provides guidelines for good practice in the field.
Additional Information
This is a thought-provoking and topical text for all those involved in work with adults with learning disabilities.
