Music Therapy in Mental Health for Illness Management and Recovery

Abstract

(from the preface) The purposes of this monograph are multifaceted. The overarching purpose is to focus on a cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational music therapy approach to illness management and recovery with adult psychiatric consumers specific to clinical group-based practice within the United States. Other goals of this monograph include informing administrators of music therapy, providing theory-based approaches to psychiatric music therapy, educating music therapists concerning related literature outside the profession, stimulating research and employment, and influencing legislative policies. Perhaps the most essential purpose of this text is to encourage both critical thought and lifelong learning concerning issues, ideas, and concepts related to various intersections between mental illness and music therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)