Open AccessProject Bethlehem - Training Educators and Health Workers in the Therapeutic Use of Music in the West Bank
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Coombes
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v11i1.291
Subject(s) - music therapy , training (meteorology) , work (physics) , medical education , resource (disambiguation) , health care , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , medicine , engineering , political science , geography , computer science , psychotherapist , mechanical engineering , computer network , meteorology , law
This article describes Project Bethlehem, a music therapy initiative which is taking place in the West Bank. It’s aim is to train teachers and health care workers in the therapeutic use of music with children.The background to the Project is described, and the music therapy work is then detailed with references to the theoretical thinking behind it. An Appendix containing the booklet prepared as a teaching resource for staff involved in the Project is attached to show how the work was developed.