Cover -- Interactive Music Therapy in Child and Family Psychiatry: Clinical Practice, Research and Teaching -- Contents -- Foreword by Joanne Holmes -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Characteristics of My Music Therapy Approach in Child and Family Psychiatry -- Introduction -- The Croft Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry -- History of music therapy at the Croft -- Two vignettes -- Defining my approach -- Influences from my own background -- Some thoughts about working in child and family psychiatry -- Parallels with family life at home -- Therapeutic music teaching -- The Croft team -- Written music therapy reports at the Croft Unit -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessments in Child and Family Psychiatry -- Introduction -- Alternative approaches to music therapy assessment -- Description of the Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessment (MTDA) -- Feeding back to the rest of the team -- Three vignettes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Music Therapy at the Croft: Assisting Clinical Diagnosis -- Introduction -- General organisation of the music therapy group -- Group philosophy -- Rationale for the group -- Group structure -- Reviewing the group -- Four vignettes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Individual Short-term Music Therapy in Child and Family Psychiatry -- Introduction -- Other approaches to short-term music therapy -- Four case studies -- Reflections on the four cases -- Improvised stories, working in partnership with a psychotherapist -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Music Therapy with Families at the Croft Unit -- Introduction -- Other family music therapy work -- Three families receiving individual music therapy treatment -- A six-week group with mothers* and young children -- One-off interventions followed by video reviews with groups of mothers and babies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Music Therapy Research -- Introduction.

Effects of music therapy on a group of adults with profound learning disabilities -- Qualitative and quantitative approaches to research -- What constitutes research? -- Investigation into music therapy with mothers and young children at a unit for child and family psychiatry -- Common points in all my research investigations -- Reflections -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Research Investigation into Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessments -- Introduction -- Background -- Methodology -- Results of the study -- Review of main findings in this chapter -- Chapter 8 Teaching Music Therapy -- Introduction -- Music therapy workshops -- Training music therapists -- Making music therapy training videos -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Music Therapy Supervision -- Introduction -- Receiving supervision -- Giving individual supervision -- A supervision group -- Reflections on what supervisees have written -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1 BLANK SHEET USED FOR RECORDING ON-GOING MUSIC THERAPY NOTES IN THE CROFT NURSING FOLDER -- APPENDIX 2 SUMMARY DESCRIBING DAMIEN'S MUSIC THERAPY SESSION -- APPENDIX 3 SUMMARY DESCRIBING NANCY, CLAUDE AND PHOEBE'S MUSIC THERAPY SESSION -- APPENDIX 4 DAMIEN'S MUSIC THERAPY REPORT -- APPENDIX 5 NANCY, CLAUDE AND PHOEBE'S MUSIC THERAPY REPORT -- APPENDIX 6 CROFT GROUP 'HELLO' SONG -- APPENDIX 7 FULL MTDA SCORING SHEETS -- APPENDIX 8 MTDA AND ADOS TESTERS' QUESTIONNAIRE -- APPENDIX 9 GUIDELINES FOR STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH THE CHILDREN -- APPENDIX 10 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING ABOUT INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISION -- APPENDIX 11 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING ABOUT GROUP SUPERVISION -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.