Research and Publications

Publications include:

Books

• Second edition of Music Therapy - An Art beyond Words, (co-authored with Brynjulf Stige) published by Routledge, 2014.
• Music Therapy - An Art beyond Words, London: Routledge 1994 5th printing 2002 and also translated into Italian 1996, Japanese 1997, German 1998, Hebrew 1999 .
• The Handbook of Music Therapy - co-authored with Sarah Hoskyns, Routledge, London 2002 . A 2nd edition is in preparation with co-editors Sarah Hoskyns and Sangeeta Swamy.

Book Chapters

• ‘The integration of art and science in music therapy training: Some challenges in the UK’ in International Perspectives in Music Therapy Education and Training: Adapting to a Changing World, edited by Karen Goodman, Charles C. Thomas 2015.
• ‘Art and music therapy in cancer care’ co-authored with Fay Mitchell - in Cancer and Cancer Care, edited by Debbie Wyatt and Nicholas Hulbert-Williams, Sage 2015.
• 'Music Therapy: a resource for creativity, health and well-being across the lifespan' in Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research, edited by Oscar Odena, Ashgate Publishers 2012.
• 'Bringing light into darkness: guided imagery and music, bereavement, loss and working through trauma' in Developments in Music Therapy Practice: Case Study Perspectives, edited by Anthony Meadows, Barcelona Publishers 2011.
• 'Music therapy for children - perspectives from practice and research' in The Child as Musician: a handbook of musical development, edited by Gary McPherson, Oxford University Press May 2006.
• 'Music Space and Health - the story of MusicSpace' in Community Music Therapy - International Initiatives, edited by Mercédès Pavlicevic and Gary Ansdell, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2004.
• 'Music and Emotion: Perspectives from Music Therapy' - co-authored with Mercédès Pavlicevic - in Music and Emotion, edited by Patrik Juslin and John Sloboda, Oxford University Press 2001.
• 'Clinical and Therapeutic uses of Music' in The Social Psychology of Music, edited by David Hargreaves and Adrian North, Oxford University Press 1997.

Journal Articles

• 'Looking into the profession with Ken Aigen.' British Journal of Music Therapy, 2015, Vol.29, no. 2: 18-26
• 'Music Therapy in Children's Hospices: An Evaluative Survey of Provision', with Sarah Hodkinson and Norma Daykin, The Arts in Psychotherapy, vol. 41, no. 5, 2014.
• 'The Healing and Spiritual Properties of Music at a Cancer Care Centre’ with Stuart McClean and Norma Daykin, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol.18, no. 4, 2012.
• 'Creativity, Identity and Healing: participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care' with Norma Daykin and Stuart McClean, Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, vol.1, no.3, 2007.
• 'Music and Healing in Cancer Care with Norma Daykin and Stuart McClean A survey of supportive care providers, The Arts in Psychotherapy', vol.33, no.5, 2006.
• 'Music Therapy with Children: A Complementary Service to Music Education?' British Journal of Music Education, vol.20, no.2 Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• 'A Pilot Study into the therapeutic effects of music therapy at a Cancer Help Center' with Sarah Burns, Michael Harbuz and Frank Hucklebridge, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, vol.7, no.1, 2001.