Coming soon. Music Therapy and Adoption: Co-creating Therapy Centered on Adoptee Lived Experience
- Author: Gravestock, Joy
Coming soon. Music Therapy and Adoption: Co-creating Therapy Centered on Adoptee Lived Experience
- Author: Gravestock, Joy
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Operating at the leading edge of music therapy, Music Therapy and Adoption provides an in-depth examination of one single case study then compares this to a wider range of examples of the author’s practice to identify four repeated ‘adoption themes’ that arise in therapeutic work.
Chapters guide readers through the rationale behind an adoption-specific music therapy and the psychoanalytic approach taken by the author. The book then approaches each of the adoption themes (feeling dropped and dropping things, lullabies and their meaning, the dynamics of hide and seek and the baby with the broken head), demonstrating how readers may identify similar themes and then appropriately develop music therapy practice for positive experiences within their own clinical work. Grounded in a needs-led collaboration within the adoption community, the author also navigates her dual position as a therapist with lived experience of adoption and how this relates to her therapeutic practice and clinical research.
As a non-verbal modality, music therapy is particularly well placed as a creative intervention for work with adoptees and their families. Accessibly written and informed by lived experience, this is an essential read for music therapists, other mental-health professionals and, most importantly, adoptees themselves.
Contents
- Chapter One: Continued Development of An Adoption-Specific Music Therapy
- Chapter Two: The Modality: Psychoanalytic Adoption Music Therapy
- Chapter Three: Literature, Practice and Research Informing an Approach.
- Chapter Four: Intersubjectivity and The Sharing of Lived Experience In Adoption Music Therapy.
- Chapter Five: Psychoanalytic Music Therapy: Adoption Theme One; On Feeling Dropped and Dropping Things.
- Chapter Six: Adoption Theme Two; Lullabies and Their Meaning for Adoptees
- Chapter Seven: Adoption Themes Three and Four; Hide and Seek + The Baby with The Broken Head. Unrepresented Early Experience Enacted with Metaphor and Stories
- Chapter Eight: Making Sense from Case Studies; Building ‘Ground Up’ Theory for Adoption Specific Music Therapy.
- Chapter Nine: Conclusions, Key Findings from Therapeutic Work and Research: And A Message for Future Adoption Specific Music Therapy
- Index
