A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy: Theory, Clinical Practice, Research and Training

This book/CD-ROM package reflects the diversity of methods that music therapists can use to meet the needs of specific client populations. It covers the theory, research results, and clinical outcomes that are the foundations of the field. Two companion CD-ROMs offer clinical and musical examples, databases, several PhD theses on music therapy, and supplementary literature. The book was first published in Danish in 2001 by Klim, Arhus. Wigram teaches music therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. The book is distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tony Wigram was Professor and Head of PhD Studies in Music Therapy at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Reader in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He was Associate Editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and a former President of both the European Music Therapy Confederation and the World Federation of Music Therapy. He was also Head Music Therapist at the Harper Children's Service in Hertfordshire, UK, and Research Advisor to Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust. Inge Nygaard Pedersen is the head of the Music Therapy Clinic in Aalborg, a centre for treatment and research that is run by the University of Aalborg and Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital. She worked at Aalborg University from 1982-1995 where she created and expanded the MA programme in music therapy. Lars Ole Bonde is an associate professor on the music therapy programme at Aalborg University, having previously been head of PhD studies and associate professor of musicology at the university.