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The overarching purpose of this text is to focus on a cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational music therapy approach to illness management and recovery with adult psychiatric consumers specific to clinical group-based practice within the United States. Other goals of this book include informing administrators of music therapy, providing theory-based approaches to psychiatric music therapy, educating music therapists concerning related literature outside the profession, stimulating research and employment, and influencing legislative policies. Perhaps the most essential purpose of this text is to encourage both critical thought and lifelong learning concerning issues, ideas, and concepts related to various intersections between mental illness and music therapy. Chapters 1 and 2 were designed to expediently orient readers to contemporary cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational psychiatric treatment for illness management and recovery and thereby provide a context for theoretical and clinical applications described in later chapters. Chapter 3 expediently orients readers to the history psychiatric music therapy and contemporary psychiatric music therapy. Chapters 4 through 7 develop and describe theories for conceptualizing psychiatric music therapy for illness management and recovery from a cognitive behavioral and psychoeducational philosophical orientation. Chapters 8 through 14 provide readers with clinical applications of psychiatric music therapy, highlighting contemporary in-patient practice and treatment, research-based interventions, the research literature, and evidence-based practice specific to an illness management and recovery approach. Chapter 14 concludes the book with questions and conjectures concerning the future of psychiatric work and how these developments may affect psychiatric music therapy clinical practice.

The great saxophonist Charlie Parker once proclaimed ‘if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn’. This quote has often been used to explain the hedonistic lifestyle of many jazz greats, but it also signals the reciprocal and inextricable relationship between music and wider social, cultural, and psychological variables. This link is complex and multifaceted and is undoubtedly a central component of why music has been implicated as a therapeutic agent in vast swathes of contemporary research studies. Music is always about more than just acoustic events or notes on a page. Music has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel. Yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing — across a range of cultures and musical genres. This book brings together research from music psychology, therapy, public health, and medicine, to explore the relationship between music, health, and wellbeing. It presents a range of chapters to give an account of recent advances and applications in both clinical and non-clinical practice and research. Some of the questions explored include: what is the nature of the scientific evidence to support the relationship between music, health, and wellbeing? What are the current views from different disciplines on empirical observations and methodological issues concerning the effects of musical interventions on health-related processes? What are the mechanisms which drive these effects and how can they be utilized for building robust theoretical frameworks for future work?