Amelia Oldfield is a well-known and prestigious music therapist with over 25 years' experience in the field. She works at the Croft Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry and at the Child Development Centre, Addenbrookes. She also lectures at Anglia Polytechnic University, where she co-initiated the MA Music Therapy Training. Amelia has completed four research investigations and a PhD. She has also produced six music therapy training videos. She is married with four children and plays clarinet in local chamber music groups in Cambridge, UK. Jo Tomlinson has been working as a music therapist in schools in Cambridgeshire, UK, for over 15 years. She was involved in setting up the music therapy service for Cambridgeshire Music in 1995, and was head music therapist from 2001 – 2005.

• Introduction. Amelia Oldfield, music therapist, UK and Mandy Carr, dramatherapist, UK. 1. If music be the food of love....; the dance of music and drama in the early years of creative arts therapies. Sue Jennings, dramatherapist, UK. 2. Dramatic role play within improvisational music therapy: Joey's story. Grace Thompson, music therapist, AUS. 3. Notes of recognition and connection: music within dramatherapy when working with adults who have challenges in their verbal capacity or are non-verbal. Jane Jackson, dramatherapist, UK. 4. The use of puppets in music therapy in a school for children with special educational needs. Jo Tomlinson and Susan Greenhalgh, music therapists, UK. 5. "You are the music while the music lasts": songs, memories and stories within a story. Christine West, dramatherapist, UK. 6. Humour, play, movement and kazoos; drama in music therapy with children and families. Amelia Oldfield. 7. Collaborations and transitions between schools and arts therapy modalities. Jessica Ellinor, dramatherapist, UK and Alexandra Georgaki, music therapist, Greece. 8. Love songs for my perpetrator: a musical theatre-based drama therapyintervention: dimensionalising the traumatised self through musical theatre. Adam Reynolds, dramatherapist and social worker, USA, and Catherine Davis, dramatherapist, USA. 9. Lullaby for butterfly: drama and music therapy projects for young people who have experienced social deprivation. Ludwika Koniecna-Nowak, music therapist, Poland. 10. Past and current influences between music therapy and dramatherapy in collaborative training, practice and research. Helen Odell-Miller, music therapist, UK and Ditty Dokter, dramatherapist, the Netherlands. 11. Music therapy and dramatherapy students improvising together: using playback and other forms. Amelia Oldfield, Mandy Carr, Ditty Dokter and Eleanor Richards, music therapist, UK. Reflections. Mandy Carr. About the Contributors.

Amelia Oldfield is a well-known and prestigious music therapist with over 25 years' experience in the field. She works at the Croft Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry and at the Child Development Centre, Addenbrookes. She also lectures at Anglia Polytechnic University, where she co-initiated the MA Music Therapy Training. Amelia has completed four research investigations and a PhD. She has also produced six music therapy training videos. She is married with four children and plays clarinet in local chamber music groups in Cambridge, UK. Jo Tomlinson has been working as a music therapist in schools in Cambridgeshire, UK, for over 15 years. She was involved in setting up the music therapy service for Cambridgeshire Music in 1995, and was head music therapist from 2001 – 2005.

• Introduction. Amelia Oldfield, music therapist, UK and Mandy Carr, dramatherapist, UK. 1. If music be the food of love....; the dance of music and drama in the early years of creative arts therapies. Sue Jennings, dramatherapist, UK. 2. Dramatic role play within improvisational music therapy: Joey's story. Grace Thompson, music therapist, AUS. 3. Notes of recognition and connection: music within dramatherapy when working with adults who have challenges in their verbal capacity or are non-verbal. Jane Jackson, dramatherapist, UK. 4. The use of puppets in music therapy in a school for children with special educational needs. Jo Tomlinson and Susan Greenhalgh, music therapists, UK. 5. "You are the music while the music lasts": songs, memories and stories within a story. Christine West, dramatherapist, UK. 6. Humour, play, movement and kazoos; drama in music therapy with children and families. Amelia Oldfield. 7. Collaborations and transitions between schools and arts therapy modalities. Jessica Ellinor, dramatherapist, UK and Alexandra Georgaki, music therapist, Greece. 8. Love songs for my perpetrator: a musical theatre-based drama therapyintervention: dimensionalising the traumatised self through musical theatre. Adam Reynolds, dramatherapist and social worker, USA, and Catherine Davis, dramatherapist, USA. 9. Lullaby for butterfly: drama and music therapy projects for young people who have experienced social deprivation. Ludwika Koniecna-Nowak, music therapist, Poland. 10. Past and current influences between music therapy and dramatherapy in collaborative training, practice and research. Helen Odell-Miller, music therapist, UK and Ditty Dokter, dramatherapist, the Netherlands. 11. Music therapy and dramatherapy students improvising together: using playback and other forms. Amelia Oldfield, Mandy Carr, Ditty Dokter and Eleanor Richards, music therapist, UK. Reflections. Mandy Carr. About the Contributors.

Amelia Oldfield is a well-known and prestigious music therapist with over 25 years' experience in the field. She works at the Croft Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry and at the Child Development Centre, Addenbrookes. She also lectures at Anglia Polytechnic University, where she co-initiated the MA Music Therapy Training. Amelia has completed four research investigations and a PhD. She has also produced six music therapy training videos. She is married with four children and plays clarinet in local chamber music groups in Cambridge, UK. Jo Tomlinson has been working as a music therapist in schools in Cambridgeshire, UK, for over 15 years. She was involved in setting up the music therapy service for Cambridgeshire Music in 1995, and was head music therapist from 2001 – 2005.

• Introduction. Amelia Oldfield, music therapist, UK and Mandy Carr, dramatherapist, UK. 1. If music be the food of love....; the dance of music and drama in the early years of creative arts therapies. Sue Jennings, dramatherapist, UK. 2. Dramatic role play within improvisational music therapy: Joey's story. Grace Thompson, music therapist, AUS. 3. Notes of recognition and connection: music within dramatherapy when working with adults who have challenges in their verbal capacity or are non-verbal. Jane Jackson, dramatherapist, UK. 4. The use of puppets in music therapy in a school for children with special educational needs. Jo Tomlinson and Susan Greenhalgh, music therapists, UK. 5. "You are the music while the music lasts": songs, memories and stories within a story. Christine West, dramatherapist, UK. 6. Humour, play, movement and kazoos; drama in music therapy with children and families. Amelia Oldfield. 7. Collaborations and transitions between schools and arts therapy modalities. Jessica Ellinor, dramatherapist, UK and Alexandra Georgaki, music therapist, Greece. 8. Love songs for my perpetrator: a musical theatre-based drama therapyintervention: dimensionalising the traumatised self through musical theatre. Adam Reynolds, dramatherapist and social worker, USA, and Catherine Davis, dramatherapist, USA. 9. Lullaby for butterfly: drama and music therapy projects for young people who have experienced social deprivation. Ludwika Koniecna-Nowak, music therapist, Poland. 10. Past and current influences between music therapy and dramatherapy in collaborative training, practice and research. Helen Odell-Miller, music therapist, UK and Ditty Dokter, dramatherapist, the Netherlands. 11. Music therapy and dramatherapy students improvising together: using playback and other forms. Amelia Oldfield, Mandy Carr, Ditty Dokter and Eleanor Richards, music therapist, UK. Reflections. Mandy Carr. About the Contributors.