Overview

This book is the first of its kind dealing with music, therapy, and traumas for music therapists, psychotherapists, and other mental health workers working with refugees, asylum seekers and their families.

Content and Approach

It follows the music therapy literature by studying music and traumas from the psychodynamic principles and can be used for the educational purposes of treating, especially from different cultural backgrounds.

Additional Uses

In addition to the clinical and educational purposes, this book can also be used as a reference book for researchers of music therapy and its methods for refugees.

Contributions and Discussions

This book is contributing to the most recent psychological, social, and philosophical discussions and aspects of liberating musical practices from oppression and discrimination.

Methods and Practices

Cultural attuning and dialoguing are proposed as the methods for building ethically sound practices with clients from different social and normative backgrounds.