Music therapy and dramatherapy share many of the same techniques and purposes, yet the full potential of combining aspects of the two disciplines is yet to be explored. This book examines the ways in which they can be brought together, and unpacks the various contexts in which this approach can be taught and put to practice.

Introduction. Amelia Oldfield, music therapist, UK and Mandy Carr, dramatherapist, UK. 1. If music be the food of love....; the dance of music and drama in the early years of creative arts therapies. Sue Jennings, dramatherapist, UK. 2. Dramatic role play within improvisational music therapy: Joey's story. Grace Thompson, music therapist, AUS. 3. Notes of recognition and connection: music within dramatherapy when working with adults who have challenges in their verbal capacity or are non-verbal. Jane Jackson, dramatherapist, UK. 4. The use of puppets in music therapy in a school for children with special educational needs. Jo Tomlinson and Susan Greenhalgh, music therapists, UK. 5. "You are the music while the music lasts": songs, memories and stories within a story. Christine West, dramatherapist, UK. 6. Humour, play, movement and kazoos; drama in music therapy with children and families. Amelia Oldfield. 7. Collaborations and transitions between schools and arts therapy modalities. Jessica Ellinor, dramatherapist, UK and Alexandra Georgaki, music therapist, Greece. 8. Love songs for my perpetrator: a musical theatre-based drama therapyintervention: dimensionalising the traumatised self through musical theatre. Adam Reynolds, dramatherapist and social worker, USA, and Catherine Davis, dramatherapist, USA. 9. Lullaby for butterfly: drama and music therapy projects for young people who have experienced social deprivation. Ludwika Koniecna-Nowak, music therapist, Poland. 10. Past and current influences between music therapy and dramatherapy in collaborative training, practice and research. Helen Odell-Miller, music therapist, UK and Ditty Dokter, dramatherapist, the Netherlands. 11. Music therapy and dramatherapy students improvising together: using playback and other forms. Amelia Oldfield, Mandy Carr, Ditty Dokter and Eleanor Richards, music therapist, UK. Reflections. Mandy Carr. About the Contributors.

Music therapy and dramatherapy share many of the same techniques and purposes, yet the full potential of combining aspects of the two disciplines is yet to be explored. This book examines the ways in which they can be brought together, and unpacks the various contexts in which this approach can be taught and put to practice.