Collaboration and assistance in music therapy practice: Roles, relationships, challenges

Abstract

Assistants as interactions partners / John Strange – Music therapists’ experiences of working with staff in sessions / Hannah Munro – Student perspectives on working with assistants on placement during vocational music therapy training / Catherine Warner – Involving family members who are primary careers in music therapy sessions with children with special needs / Pornpan Kaenampornpan – Exploring the significance of the role of asistants in music therapy groups in adult and older people’s mental health settings / Helen Odell-Miller – ‘Let them bring their own song’ / Ruth Melhuish – Caregiver’s dual role in music therapy to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia / Ming Hung Hsu – Psychodynamic group music therapy facilities careers to become auxiliary music therapists / Anthi Agrotou – Supporting the unplanned journey / Tessa Watson – From assistance to co-therapy / Jorg Fachner – Music and attuned movement therapy / John Strange , Mary-Clare Fearn and Rebecca O’Connor – ‘Music and movement’ – John Strange and Lyn Weekes – Improvised music to support client-assistant interaction / John Strange – Who knows me best? / Sarah Hadley – An inclusion group from primary school pupils with and without profound learning disability / Motoko Hayata and John Strange – Building musical bridges in paediataric hospital departments / Tone Leinebo and Trygve Aasgard – Someone else in the room : welcome or unwelcome? / Eleanor Richards – Valuing human resources / John Strange, Helen Odell-Miller, and Eleanor Richards.