Music Therapy for Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Mental Disorders
Barbara J. Crowe has been Director of Music Therapy at Arizona State University since 1981 and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music therapy from Michigan State University. She worked clinically at the University of Michigan Neuropsychiatric Institute with adolescents with mental disorders and has done numerous presentations at music therapy and related field conferences. She has a number of publications, including, Music Therapy for an Emotionally Disturbed Adolescent Boy in German Journal of Music Therapy and her book, Music and Soulmaking: Toward a New Theory of Music Therapy, from Scarecrow Press. She is a Past President of the National Association for Music Therapy and co-authored the new Standards for Education and Clinical Training for the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). She received the 2004 AMTA Award of Merit, the 2005 AMTA Lifetime Achievement award, and the Arizona State University Herberger College of Fine Arts, 2005-2006 Award for Research/Creative Activity. Cynthia Colwell is the Director of Music Therapy at The University of Kansas. Her teaching and research interests are teaching music to special populations, music therapy in the schools, music therapy with hospitalized children, using children's literature in therapeutic applications, and Orff-Schulwerk applications in music therapy. She is the President of the Midwestern Region of the American Music Therapy Association and the President of the Kansas Orff Chapter. She has published in the journals and presented at the conferences of the American Music Therapy Association, Music Educators National Conference, and American Orff-Schulwerk Association. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Music Therapy and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education.