Observing highly agitated, disoriented and §distressed young adults experiencing posttraumatic §amnesia is emotionally difficult for the family to §witness, and problematic for staff managing them in §acute hospital wards. Neurorehabilitation §practitioners consider management of posttraumatic §amnesia is best achieved by limiting the amount of §stimuli they are exposed to. Consequently music §during posttraumatic amnesia is considered §contraindicated. This book offers an alternative §perspective by showing how familiar and §stylistically simple music reduces agitation and can...

Therapeutic Songwriting provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary methods and models of songwriting as used for therapeutic purposes. It describes the environmental, sociocultural, individual, and group factors shaping practice, and how songwriting is understood and practiced within different psychological and wellbeing orientations.