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Many music therapists work in adult mental health settings after qualifying. This book is an essential guide to psychiatric music therapy, providing the necessary breadth and depth to inform readers of the psychotherapeutic research base and show how music therapy can effectively and efficiently function within clinical practice
"This purpose of this text is to describe the who, what, when, where, why, and how of music therapy for illness management and recovery for adults with mental health conditions specific to clinical group-based practice within the United States. Other goals of this monograph include informing administrators of music therapy, providing theory-based approaches to music therapy in mental health settings, educating music therapists about related literature outside the profession, stimulating research and employment, increasing access to services, and influencing legislative policies. Perhaps the most essential purpose of this text is to encourage both critical thinking and lifelong learning about issues, ideas, and concepts related to various intersections between mental health and music therapy."--Publisher.
Advance praise for UNLEASH YOUR DREAMS "Michael Silverman is a brilliant and deeply compassionate psychologist whose book gives all of us hope for clarity and positive momentum in achieving our dreams. His understanding and practical methodology offer a path out of the woods of unconscious personal sabotage. The journey through his book has been a most enlightening one." —BETTY BUCKLEY, Tony Award-winning singer/actress "Practical yet profound, Michael Silverman's strategies for recognizing and overcoming latent fears about success, failure, or mediocrity will be of great use to readers of all kinds. These are provided with a scientific base and a sure, sensitive clinical touch. Highly rec...
A memoir by the World Series champion pitcher describes his youth in the Dominican Republic, hardscrabble days in the minor leagues and legendary run with the Red Sox. 100,000 first printing.
Advance praise for UNLEASH YOUR DREAMS "Michael Silverman is a brilliant and deeply compassionate psychologist whose book gives all of us hope for clarity and positive momentum in achieving our dreams. His understanding and practical methodology offer a path out of the woods of unconscious personal sabotage. The journey through his book has been a most enlightening one." —BETTY BUCKLEY, Tony Award-winning singer/actress "Practical yet profound, Michael Silverman's strategies for recognizing and overcoming latent fears about success, failure, or mediocrity will be of great use to readers of all kinds. These are provided with a scientific base and a sure, sensitive clinical touch. Highly rec...
In today’s business climate, accountability, transparency, and a high regard for laws, regulations, and ethical conduct is as much a part of how an organization manages its affairs as its primary mission and operations. Compliance Management for Public, Private, or Nonprofit Organizations is a complete, hands-on guide to implementing strategies and techniques for developing, managing, and improving the compliance function of any organization. Author Michael G. Silverman is a corporate expert in strategic planning, program management, compliance, risk assessment, and policy development. In Compliance Management for Public, Private, or Nonprofit Organizations, he presents a comprehensive tre...
This comprehensive account of the biological basis and clinical management of childhood asthma and other wheezing disorders brings together all the aspects necessary for full understanding by the trainee or practising respiratory physician, paediatrician, or specialist nurse of therapist. The text reviews the nature of childhood asthma, its developmental and biological origins and its impact both for the individual and for society. In each section the scientific background is brought together with comprehensive clinical information, reviewed where possible with an evidence base in mind, providing the reader with informed guidance to best practice. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, t...
Illuminates transgender activists successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US. In recent years, gender-variant peopleincluding those we now call transgender peoplehave won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term gender identity disorder with gender dysphoria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Department of Justice announced that discrimination on the basis of gender identity constituted sex discrimination, and the Department of Health and Human Services decided that it would no longer stop Medicare from covering gender reassignment surgery...