Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

“Lerner's innovative "Portrait Song" intervention in Israeli special education can give music therapists some perspectives about the possibility and benefits of composing complete therapeutic songs (lyrics and music) for specific clients.”

"The music, and the slow tempo, hinted at my need for a different sense of time. More importantly I experienced music of a different sense of acceptance... Somehow the music was needed to help reinforce the idea, “You are stuck here, and it is okay for now.”

"Significant and pivotal moments as information sources could greatly contribute to the therapeutic process and relationship in the absence of verbal processing and communication between the therapist and client as is often the case in work with individuals diagnosed with I/DD."

For more visit: voices.no/index.php/voices/a… A critical examination of “cross-cultural and cultural competency workshops as a panacea to improve relations between Indigenous clients and those who work for the organisations Indigenous people access as part of their daily lives.”

"This was truly intimate work. The girls opened their world to us; they invited strangers into their lives when trust was an issue—some afraid to trust, others knowing they trusted too freely. 2/3

In the best of all worlds, social capital represents one of the unlimited, renewable, and therefore sustainable resources available to humanity, and its accumulation provides the fuel for the motor of positive social change supported by international cooperation. 2/3