You are invited to the launch, at 6 pm on Friday November 11th 2011  of MUSIC THERAPY AND PARENT- INFANT BONDING Edited by Professor Jane Edwards of the Music & Health Research Group, University of Limerick.

This is the first book to explore and describe the important role that music therapists can play in helping ensure successful attachment between parent and infant in vulnerable populations. It includes case stsudies, offering a personal account of how music therapy han help those vulneralbe populations and provides an international perspective, exploring how music therapists across the world are helping improve the lives of parents and infants.

This is the first book to focus specifically on the way that music therapists provide support for the development of the special and necessary bond between parents and their infants, where some vulnerability is experienced. In the book, music therapist from four countries, Australia, Ireland the UK and the US describe their practices with reference to contemporary theory and research. Throughout, the chapters are illustrated with engaging case material. Many of the authors are the world leaders in the area of music therapy to promote parent and infant bonding. The book will be valuable for music therapy practitioners and students, and more broadly for all those in the field of infant mental health.  (Oxford, Paperback ISBN 978-0-19-958051-4)