Integrated Team Working

For students and professionals, this volume, containing seven essays and 18 case studies of different clinical settings, explains transdisciplinary and collaborative approaches in conducting music therapy with children, adults, and the elderly. Music therapists from the UK describe the history and theory of collaborative working, types of approaches in working with other disciplines in the UK, and the results of their implementation when working with children in education and health settings, with adults with learning disabilities, in adult mental health, and in elderly services. Twyford is a music therapist in New Zealand who has worked in the field of special education. Watson is a music therapist and trainer and is associated with Roehampton U. in the UK. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Karen Twyford is a music therapist whose clinical experience is with a variety of client groups, particularly within the field of special education. She has recently undertaken research into the use of collaborative multidisciplinary approaches within music therapy practice in the UK. She now lives in Wellington, New Zealand where she has established a music therapy practice. Tessa Watson is a music therapist and is currently convenor of the music therapy training course at Roehampton University, UK. She has clinical experience with a variety of client groups has undertaken research into learning and teaching in the arts therapies, music therapy work with adults with learning disabilities, and women in secure psychiatric services.