Music Therapy Handbook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781462556922)

Andeline dos Santos, DMus, MA (she/her), is Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy and Research Coordinator for the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a registered Music Therapist whose work focuses on adolescents and youth. Dr. dos Santos's research interests include investigating empathy from within varying theoretical paradigms, and the implications for music therapy practice; the relationships between empathy and violence and empathy and spirituality; and creative and participatory research methods.

Barbara L. Wheeler, PhD, MT-BC (she/her), is Professor Emeritus at Montclair State University, where she taught from 1975 to 2000. She initiated the music therapy program at the University of Louisville in 2000, retiring in 2011. Dr. Wheeler presents and teaches in the United States and internationally and has been an active clinician throughout her career. She edited or coedited three editions of Music Therapy Research, edited the first edition of Music Therapy Handbook, and is coauthor of Clinical Training Guide for the Student Music Therapist. She has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the World Federation of Music Therapy and the American Music Therapy Association.