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Music is powerful. The right song at the right time can make you smile, cry, dance, or breathe a contented "ah." In Wellness, Wellplayed, music therapist Jennifer Buchanan shows us how to develop and use music playlists with purpose, as a bridge to something deeper within ourselves-and a way to address our human need to feel, create, and connect.
My Body's Special celebrates the uniqueness of EVERY body and encourages children to be proud of who they are. Young readers will be captivated by the colorful illustrations and can sing along with the song download (using URL or QR code). The book is great for group storytimes too! Jennifer Buchanan is an acclaimed music therapist and found of JB Music Therapy. JB Music Therapy is a team of certified music therapists who collaborate, design, and personalize therapy plans with their clients that will foster desired change: boost mood, decrease stress, improve speech after injury, increase focus, develop learning, reduce anxiety, and recover lost memories.
A harrowing and heart-wrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Buchanan's kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the Navy SEALs, and her husband's extraordinary efforts to help bring her home.
"I've seen the beauty that can arise in the hearts of those that cannot be reached by other types of therapy and yet they respond to the magic of music. Jennifer introduced me to the miracles that music therapy can perform. She has through her work touched many people in ways that could only be accomplished with both her special gift and her music - one of the most heart warming experiences of my life." - Don Felder, lead guitarist of the Eagles "Jennifer is a great story teller who effectively captures moments, making them fresh to the imagination." - The Rebecca Review "In her book, Tune In, Jennifer Buchanan shares stories that pull at your heart strings and leave you longing for more. Th...
The primary goal of this text is to promote educational advancement for health care professionals on the topic of how creative arts therapies can assist patients and clients to achieve specific goals or outcomes. More specifically, the book seeks to create a closer connection between nursing care and the creative arts therapies in order to promote professional collaboration and to expand the concept of holistic care. Most of its twenty chapters explore the theoretical and practical implications of the creative arts therapies as illustrated in single and multiple-case studies. The chapters’ authors are creative arts therapists, nurses, social workers, therapeutic recreation specialists, and...
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Co-published with In these days when every college or university needs to make the best use of resources, Student Affairs for Academic Administrators is intended to help academic administrators make the best use of one vital campus resource: student affairs. By providing this concise introduction to student affairs as a discipline and a profession, the authors of this volume provide a foundation for working together to improve the student experience and enhance learning. Since academic administrators typically come up through the faculty ranks, they are unlikely to have a good grasp of what their student affairs colleagues bring to the common work of education. To provide a better understand...
One thing which will assist in the full understanding of this story is it has several portions written to invoke each reader to become one or perhaps both of the main characters involved. It is also intended to stir empathy with each character, as it may be pertinent to the reader. There are several themes allowing an opportunity for the reader to imagine the position of each character as if that position were real, and in many cases the odds of such an occurrence are most probable, as the idea of the circumstances came from observations of everyday life and human emotions. Although the story only involves two individuals, which happen to be a male and female, it could also very well apply to a number of conditions as wide and as open as a phantasm of the mind and illusions of make-believe. Such an event has happened in the past and will most likely occur again in the future. If you believe long enough, hard enough, real enough, it could also happen to you in A Matter of Time.