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Do My Story, Sing My Song
Music therapy and Playback Theatre with troubled children
by Jo Salas

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. St Mary’s—starting something new
2. A musical tornado—a boy expresses anger, trust and pride through music
3. Lizzie the mermaid—a traumatized girl sings
4. Singing with the Anthonites—group music therapy
5. Harmony and dissonance
—the role of talent and other considerations
6. “Do my story!”—introducing Playback Theatre to St Mary’s
7. Gastonia—two severely disturbed boys and their musical expression
8. A painting of the world—a drama therapy group
9. The bag of stones—therapy groups using Playback Theatre
10. Stories in the Space Room—a week-by-week chronicle of one Playback therapy group
11. Shade sings her life—music therapy with an angry, soulful girl
12. Tamira’s second chance—an all-girls Playback Theatre group
13. “Music is curative”—a boy composes songs
14. Coda—the permanent place of the arts at St Mary’s

Appendix: About the creative arts therapies
References and Resources

Excerpt

   

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