Publication year: 2011
Source: The Arts in Psychotherapy, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 May 2011
Jane, Edwards
The promotion of attachment behaviours between parents and infants through music-based interventions is an emerging specialism in music therapy practice. The theoretical formations and research to support this work are increasingly being elaborated, and the work of music therapists with clients throughout the lifespan increasingly draws on this rich theoretical base.This paper provides an overview of the theoretical underpinnings that inform the work of qualified music therapists in promoting healthy and secure attachment between parents and infants where disruption to a secure relational bond has occurred, or is vulnerable in some way. Characteristics of the innate musicality of the very…