Contemporary Issues in Music Therapy Training: A Resource for Trainees, Trainers and Practitioners [Hardcover]

1. Learning and Teaching in Music Therapy Training? 2. Theories and Approaches for Music Therapy Training? 3. A Historical Context for Music Therapy Training? 4. Music in Training? 5. Work-Based Learning? 6. The Student Experience; Diverse Perspectives? 7. The Reflective Practitioner? 8. The Career of a Music Therapist? 9. The Broader Role of the Music Therapist: Career Case Studies? 10. Coda: The future

Watson?and Warner introduce approaches, practices and dilemmas in contemporary learning and teaching of music therapy to current and future trainees, practitioners, placement educators and trainers by including the voices of recent graduates, trainers and practice educators, offering a unique window into the field.

This book is important, timely, and a very good read. The prominence given to the voices of trainees, trainers, and practitioners, ensures the book is firmly grounded in experience, and highly relevant to all interested in music therapy training.

Claire Flower, PhD, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London.

The importance of learning to learn  and of training the trainers  is thoroughly unfolded in this excellent book: Contemporary Issues in Music Therapy Training: A resource for trainees, trainers and practitioners. With a focus on practice in the UK, international professionals will also benefit from its valuable and reflective insights.

Professor Dr Hanne Mette Ridder, Aalborg University, Denmark

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The experienced authors of Contemporary Issues in Music Therapy Training are deeply practical and critically intelligent about engaging with the challenges of broadening the accessibility and diversity of music (and arts) therapy in training.? Striking stories of learl3P