Music therapy in mental health for illness management and recovery

Abstract

Abstract The overarching purpose of this text is to focus on a cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational music therapy approach to illness management and recovery with adult psychiatric consumers specific to clinical group-based practice within the United States. Other goals of this book include informing administrators of music therapy, providing theory-based approaches to psychiatric music therapy, educating music therapists concerning related literature outside the profession, stimulating research and employment, and influencing legislative policies. Perhaps the most essential purpose of this text is to encourage both critical thought and lifelong learning concerning issues, ideas, and concepts related to various intersections between mental illness and music therapy. Chapters 1 and 2 were designed to expediently orient readers to contemporary cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational psychiatric treatment for illness management and recovery and thereby provide a context for theoretical and clinical applications described in later chapters. Chapter 3 expediently orients readers to the history psychiatric music therapy and contemporary psychiatric music therapy. Chapters 4 through 7 develop and describe theories for conceptualizing psychiatric music therapy for illness management and recovery from a cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational philosophical orientation. Chapters 8 through 14 provide readers with clinical applications of psychiatric music therapy, highlighting contemporary in-patient practice and treatment, research-based interventions, the research literature, and evidence-based practice specific to an illness management and recovery approach. Chapter 14 concludes the book with questions and conjectures concerning the future of psychiatric work and how these developments may affect psychiatric music therapy clinical practice.