USING VOICE AND SONG IN THERAPY Book

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

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A practical and imaginative guide to the way in which singing and the expressive use of the voice can facilitate therapy. Describes how sounds made by the human voice can be shaped to form songs which reveal and express the self, and shows how melody creation, combined with story-telling in song, can alleviate certain emotional, psychosomatic, and psychological symptoms. Describes therapeutic techniques and exercises and illustrates these with case studies, focusing on the benefits of voicework for people with disabilities and for children with special educational needs. For non-clinical professionals working as group leaders and facilitators. The author is a voice and movement therapist and voice therapy trainer. He is the founding director of the International Association for Voice and Movement Therapy. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)