Goal Processes in Music Therapy Practice

172 Pages·2022·4.585 MB·English

by  Grace Thompson

Goal Processes in
Music Therapy Practice
by the same author
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Therapeutic Approaches and Theoretical Perspectives
Edited by Stine Lindahl Jacobsen and Grace Thompson
ISBN 978 1 84905 630 4
eISBN 978 1 78450 105 1
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GOAL PROCESSES in
MUSIC THERAPY
PRACTICE
Grace Thompson
Foreword by Helen Shoemark
Illustrations by Ellen Waite
First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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To the music therapy students at the
University of Melbourne who were not
content with the answer ‘it depends’.

Contents
Foreword by Helen Shoemark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE
1. Introduction: Do I need to write a goal?. . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2. Reflections on literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
PART 2: A THEORY OF GOAL PROCESSES
3. Introduction to the client-in-context theory . . . . . . . . . 53
4. The music therapist’s attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5. The client’s attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6. Features of the context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
7. Interactions between the players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
PART 3: APPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
8. The theory–practice nexus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
9. Considerations for goal writing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Appendix: Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165