Rick Soshensky, MA, LCAT, MT-BC, NRMT, CBIS
Rick Soshensky Articles and Writings
Rick Soshensky has published a large number of articles for a variety of clinical practice textbooks, music therapy journals, professional websites and newsletters. Here are a few examples:
Music: The Language of Well-Being Published in McKnight's Long-Term Care and Assisted Living July 6, 2010
This article discusses music's dynamic potential to stimulate interaction, self-expression and community-building can encourage well-being in residents challenged with cognitive impairment, memory loss and dementia in long-term care settings. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
This article addresses the use of guitar in Nordoff-Robbins music therapy. Nordoff-Robbins has long been identified as an exclusively piano-based model and, as such, the extant literature has not closely examined the use of guitar within the approach. A two-year course of music therapy at the New York Nordoff-Robbins Center with a young boy diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder will be followed with the therapist utilizing guitar as the primary instrument. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Releasing a CD of Original Client Music to the Public as an Aspect of Brain Injury Treatment
by Rick Soshensky on Brainline.org
by Rick Soshensky on Brainline.org
In modern times, the CD has taken its place as the primary music 'product' in a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry but the belief that music is basically entertainment to be enjoyed separately from more serious pursuits of life is a relatively recent concept. For most of human history, music was essential to the communication and sense of connection within a tribe or village. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Two Chapters by Rick Soshensky for the AMTA Monograph Series Effective Clinical Practice in Music Therapy: Music Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults with Mental Disorders CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children (re-issue) by Nordoff, Paul & Robbins, Clive (2004). Reviewed by Rick Soshensky
With the re-issue of Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins, we can rest assured that this groundbreaking work will remain in the contemporary sphere of influence appropriate to its timeless message which is, as Clive Robbins informs us in his acknowledgments for this new edition: "the health and healing latent in the livingness of creative musicing" CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
