Forensic Music Therapy

Stella Compton Dickinson is Research Lead in Arts Therapies at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services and a Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham. She has worked as an NHS clinician, manager and researcher for over fifteen years, presenting developments internationally. She is a registered psychotherapist and music therapist with approved supervisor status. She has published developments in music therapy in forensic settings and is currently developing research on the evidence base for cognitive analytic music therapy. Helen Odell-Miller is Professor of Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and has worked as a clinician, researcher and manager for over 30 years, specialising in adult mental health. She has published and lectured internationally and led research projects looking at clinical outcomes in dementia, and arts therapies in the adult mental health field. John Adlam is Principal Adult Psychotherapist and Lead for Group Therapies with St George's Adult Eating Disorders Service. He trained in Psychoanalytical Group Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre and in Forensic Psychotherapeutic Studies at the Portman Clinic. He is Visiting Lecturer in Forensic Psychotherapy at St George's, University of London and former Vice-President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.

The book presents rich material about the variety of aspects that a music therapist meets in secure hospital settings with patients with mental illness, presenting the very complexity of this work. I strongly recommend this book to music therapists working in the field because I believe reading the book will support music therapists in their work and especially support how to communicate the special contributions of music therapy in secured psychiatric hospital settings.

• Foreword by Dr Estela Welldon, Founder and Honorary Elected President for Life, International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. Preface. Introduction. Part I. The Institutional Setting. 1. An Overview of Working Therapeutically in the High Secure Setting. Dr Phyllis Annesley, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Dr Lindsay Jones, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Analytic Therapy Practitioner, NHS North Yorkshire and York. 2. Music Therapy Supervision: Inside and Outside the Hospital Walls. Prof Helen Odell-Miller, Professor of Music Therapy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 3. 'Containment or Contamination?': Establishing a Service for Patients with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD). Petra Hervey, Music Therapist and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Trust and Helen Odell-Miller, Professor of Music Therapy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 4. Communication, Collaboration and the Clinical Team: Working with Long-stay In-patients. Philip Hughes, Music Therapist, NHS, Hertfordshire and Irene Cormac, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Part II. Clinical Music Therapy from Adolescent to Adult Offenders. 5. A Case of Work, Rest and Play: Music Therapy in Early Onset Psychosis. Stella Compton Dickinson, Research Lead in Arts Therapies, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services. 6. Managed and Managing in a Medium Secure Service: An Arts Therapies Managerial Perspective. Sarah Hill, Head of Arts Therapies and Vocational Services Manager at North London Forensic Service, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. 7. Introducing Group Cognitive Analytic Music Therapy (G-CAMT) to a Women's Enhanced Medium-secure setting: A Pilot Project and Results. Stella Compton Dickinson, Research Lead in Arts Therapies, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services and Rebecca Lawday, Chartered Forensic Psychologist, Women's Services at Arnold Lodge, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. 8. 'Do you Want to be in My Band?': Music Therapy in the Context of the Recovery Model in a High Security Hospital. Alex Maguire, Senior Music Therapist, Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire and Ian Merrick, Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire. 9. Working with Conflict: A Musical Analysis and Summary of Developments with a man suffering with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Stella Compton Dickinson, Research Lead in Arts Therapies, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services and Dr Manjit Gahir, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Lead Consultant, National High Secure Deaf Service, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. 10. Group Cognitive Analytic Music Therapy (G-CAMT): A Developmental Pilot Group for Men who have Killed or Committed Grievous Bodily Harm. Victoria Sleight, Music Therapist, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Stella Compton Dickinson, Research Lead in Arts Therapies, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services. 11. Music, Mourning and the Matrix: An Exploration into the Impact of Loss and Death upon a closed Music Therapy Group. Rebecca Roberts, Music Therapist, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. 12. 'The Curious Case of the Lost Boy': A Sequel to the Treatment of a Psychopathic Offender with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder. Stella Compton Dickinson, Research Lead in Arts Therapies, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services. Conclusion. Bibliography. List of Tables. List of Figures. List of CD Examples.