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Michel, D. E., & Pinson, J. (2005). Music therapy in principle and practice. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 164 pages. ISBN: 0-398-07542-5. $46.95

Michel, D. E., & Pinson, J. (2005). Music therapy in principle and practice. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 164 pages. ISBN: 0-398-07542-5. $46.95. In what was originally intended as a third edition to Michel's Music Therapy (1976, 1985), Michel and Pinson offer an easily readable, brief, concise, and personal approach to this new introduction to the principles and practice of music therapy. The approximately 134 pages of text reflect the authors' experience in clinical practice, training, and research within a behavioral paradigm. The reader is provided with an overview of Michel's research and clinical experience combined with Pinson's clinical experience and pragmatism, and the subtle humor of his And Furthermore contributions. Three pages of references support the material presented in the text. The study questions at the end of each chapter provide a ready resource for test development, and the appendix of selected web-based resources offers a unique contribution. The eleven chapters begin with an overview of the field starting with a lively discussion and interchange between the authors as they explore their definitions and philosophies of music therapy. A brief description of the profession's history as an activity therapy, followed by a quick glance at employment opportunities for music therapists, completes the first chapter. In chapter two, Professional Guidelines, the authors discuss the Iso-Principle, protocol planning, and the element of change as essential principles in the practice of music therapy. The chapter concludes with an overview of Michel's Stress and Developmental Skills Model and brief descriptions of the four diagnostic categories that will be discussed in the text: developmental disabilities, psychiatric disorders, physical disabilities, and behavior disorders. In chapter three, Assessment is discussed within the context of the developmental skill areas of Michel's model: motor, communication, cognitive, and social-emotional. The chapter continues with a brief discussion of assessment measures using strengths and weaknesses to establish baselines, and concludes with an example. In chapter four, Protocol Planning, goals are defined as a direction for treatment, as determined by measurable objectives (p. 43). Objectives are defined as an immediate focus of treatment, which includes a specific measurable outcome, a condition for achievement and a projected time of completion (p. 46). The evidence of Pinson's humor is again clearly present in his song for learning and remembering how to write objectives, Writing an Objective (p. 48). The chapter comes to a close with a section on implementation and evaluation. The succeeding chapters are clinically focused and organized so that each chapter addresses the skill areas of Michel's Stress and Developmental Skills Model: motor, communication, cognitive, and social-emotional. Each chapter briefly explores preliminary considerations, conditions and causes, diagnostic areas and music therapy interventions with case descriptions for each chapter based on the authors' experiences. A chapter on Professional Ethics and Disclosure includes several examples of ethical violations for study and reflection that are based on the AMTA Code of Ethics. The text finishes with an introductory chapter on research and final comments from the authors in chapter eleven, Looking Back-Looking Ahead. The obvious strength of this book is its readability. The language is clear, concise, and personable. The authors' discussion about their own philosophies and definitions of music therapy was neatly framed as a caveat for the reader to get started towards developing their own definition of music therapy. The distinction between habilitation and rehabilitation helped to clarify the development of protocol planning for individual client needs. The authors demonstrated a clientfocused orientation to therapy by advocating a treatment approach to help a challenged individual develop important life skills, rather than labeling a client with diagnosis or placing an individual for treatment based on a diagnosis. …

"Eugenic O'Neill" and the Secrets of Strange Interlude

Playwright Eugene O'Neill, who was interested in developing complex relationships between the past and present on stage, found a ready resource in hereditary theory. This essay traces where popular ideas about heredity and eugenics emerge in O'Neill's 1928 play Strange Interlude in order to see how those ideas contribute to the playwright's creation of new dramatic form.

Direct sequencing of bacterial and P1 artificial chromosome-nested deletions for identifying position-specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms.

A loxP-transposon retrofitting strategy for generating large nested deletions from one end of the insert DNA in bacterial artificial chromosomes and P1 artificial chromosomes was described recently [Chatterjee, P. K. & Coren, J. S. (1997) Nucleic Acids Res. 25, 2205-2212]. In this report, we combine this procedure with direct sequencing of nested-deletion templates by using primers located in the transposon end to illustrate its value for position-specific single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery from chosen regions of large insert clones. A simple ampicillin sensitivity screen was developed to facilitate identification and recovery of deletion clones free of transduced transposon plasmid. This directed approach requires minimal DNA sequencing, and no in vitro subclone library generation; positionally oriented SNPs are a consequence of the method. The procedure is used to discover new SNPs as well as physically map those identified from random subcloned libraries or sequence databases. The deletion templates, positioned SNPs, and markers are also used to orient large insert clones into a contig. The deletion clone can serve as a ready resource for future functional genomic studies because each carries a mammalian cell-specific antibiotic resistance gene from the transposon. Furthermore, the technique should be especially applicable to the analysis of genomes for which a full genome sequence or radiation hybrid cell lines are unavailable.

Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, 3rd Edition

Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, 3rd Edition

Chaucer’s Ovidian Arts of Love by Michael A. Calabrese

REVIEWS and thus are "the expression of a body of ideas" (p. 123). Noting that Chaucer's techniques for characterization can be considerably more com­ plex than simply playing off conventional materials, Brown introduces calendar images of January portrayed as the two-faced god of antiquity who--in medieval depictions-becomes a solidly prosperous two-faced man, looking back on the past and forward to the future and intent on indulging himself in the seasonal activities of eating and drinking. The lavishness of January and May's wedding feast thus highlights how Chaucer draws on nature myths to enrich his portrayal ofJanuary. A number of formatting elements enhance the book's usefulness: ques­ tions precede and follow discussion ofthe text, helping to focus the reader's attention on relevant issues and guiding teachers interested in using this material with their students; an annotated bibliography at the end of each chapter functions as a ready resource for those wishing to meander further down the interpretive pathways the book has traced; a detailed index makes specific information easily accessible. Brown sees Chaucer's artistic purposes--entertaining his audience and encouraging dialogue on contemporary issues-as closely linked with the social milieu that gave him patronage. Although Brown's discussion-by virtue of the texts and images he selects-unavoidably leans more heavily in some directions than in others, he strives to facilitate analysis, to point toward fruitful avenues for exploration rather than to strain after definitive readings. In the spirit of Chaucer's own distaste for authoritative guides, Brown eschews the role of master-interpreter and presents his readers with a method that is adaptable to other passages and tales. Overall, his work helps students move quickly beyond the "roadside drama" approach and the focus on "realistic" detail; it directs them toward more contextual criti­ cal analysis. Readable and imaginative, it is a user-friendly resource for anyone seeking ro better understand Chaucer's compositional methods and to deepen acquaintance with a poet who prefers "open-ended debate rather than conclusive moral teaching" (p. 10). LILLIAN M. BISSON Marymount University MICHAEL A. CALABRESE. Chaucer's Ovidian Arts ofLove. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1994. Pp. x, 170. $29.95. Chaucer's Ovidian Arts ofLove presents a close reading of Chaucer's Troilus, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, and the Retraction. Professor Calabrese reads 183 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER these texts against the textual tradition he calls the "medieval Ovid," a tradition that encompasses Ovidian texts in context, an "extending web of scholastic and poetic texts, treatments and testimonies" (p. 3). In Cala­ brese's terms, it is Ovid-the-love-poet-the author of the Ars Amatoria, the Remedia Amoris, the Heroides, and the Amores-that Chaucer studied and rewrote. In addition, Calabrese focuses as well on Ovid's "civic perils"­ especially his exile, understood in the Middle Ages as imperial punishment for the lascivious content of the Ars Amatoria. The Ovidian commentary tradition, with its interest in the ethical interpretation of an author's "life" as well as "art," offered Chaucer a "model of the life of a lascivious poet who had to answer for his crimes" (p. 21). Calabrese posits that Chaucer, as a vernacular poet alongside Boccaccio and Jean de Meun, confronted the contradictory nature of medieval re­ sponses to Ovid's love poetry. Ovidian amatory texts were simultaneously central to the canon and to vernacular poetics yet frequently condemned for their seductive dangers, a condemnation that elides rhetorical and erotic appeal. Calabrese briefly analyzes an anonymous fourteenth-century poem, the Antiovidianus, as an example of a countertradition to the ethical recu­ peration of Ovid's art and life in the conventional accessus. For Calabrese, it is this contradictory response to Ovidian art and life, rhetoric and desire, that Chaucer negotiates in the erotic machinations of the Troilus, through the subject position of the Wife of Bath, and in the authorial self-con­ sciousness of the Retraction. In two chapters at the center of the book, Calabrese reads Chaucer's Troilus as a vernacular narrative exploration of the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia Amoris. In this schema, Pandarus becomes identified as the quint­ essential Ovidian...

Parents: A Ready Resource

“I never seem to reach every student when I am teaching mathematics.” “There is never enough time for practicing mathematics skills.” These laments by typical elementary school teachers are both real and abundant. Teachers would love to have more time and more help to work with students individually on developing and mastering mathematics skills. Involving parents in working with their children in mathematics is a ready method of obtaining an extra resource for teachers when individualizing mathematics instruction.