Video produced by Anglia Polytechnic University, 2005     Price £16.00

Made in 2005 by Amelia Oldfield, Joy nudds and Rod Macdonald.  Length:  55 minutes.

This video shows children and adults receiving treatment at the Croft Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry in Cambridge.  The children and the families in the video are actors, but the staff on the Unit are mostly in their own roles.  Children and families are shown in a variety of settings such as the Unit school, the playground, in self esteem and social skills groups, in the evenings and at night in the residential area, in music therapy groups and in family therapy.  Individual treatment and assessments are alwo shown as well as multidisciplinary team meetings where families are discussed and reviewed.

The video will be relevant to anyone with an interest in Child and Family Psychiatry.  It could, for example, be used as a training tool for students who are training to be psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, social workers, family therapists or music therapists.  It may also be used for families who are considering treatment at the Croft or other similar Psychiatric Units.

Video produced by Anglia Polytechnic University, 2002        Price £16.00    

New - now available in American Format VHS NTSC (USA) Price £23.00 (approx. $40)  not including airmail P&P

Made in 2002 by Amelia Oldfield and Joy Nudds.  Length: 29 minutes.

Winner of the Royal Television society, East Anglia, Non-Broadcast Video of the Year Award 

This video includes excerpts of music therapy sessions over a period of 18 months at the time when Joshua was two to three years old. You also see Joshua and his father, Barry, in physiotherapy sessions, with the specialist teacher for partially sighted children, at playgroup, at home, and in the swimming pool. The video highlights the special relationship between Joshua and Barry, which is enhanced by their shared enjoyment of music making.

This video should be relevant to anyone with an interest in music therapy, cerebral palsy, children who are partially sighted, multidisciplinary work and therapeutic approaches involving working closely with children and their families.

Dr Anthi Agrotou (RMTh), 2002       Price £19.00

This is a documentary of some pioneer music therapy work, which takes place in an institution for profoundly learning disabled people. It focuses on a particular, innovating application of music therapy, whereby residents and carers participate together in therapeutic groups. A non-interventional and a specific use of music, based on the principles of psychodynamic thinking, facilitates both residents and carers towards emotional awakening and the creation of attachment bonds between them for the first time in their lives.

As an example of this work, the film follows the history of a particular music therapy group, consisting of three residents, four carers and the music therapist. By using the original video-recorded excerpts of stable therapeutic work, taken over a four year period, the film traces the process of individuals from their complete isolation towards their newly-found exteriorisation of their inner world. Disabled bodies and inert souls move for the first time, when they discover the vitality and abilities which they had kept buried for years. People who have never spoken, who have hardly ever become attached to anyone, use the language of their sounds and their bodes, in order to act out their personal history. The facilitating means of this discovery is music, which is improvised in the here and now of the therapeutic sessions.

The film is about people with profound learning difficulties. Nevertheless, the language of sound and body becomes for them a means of intelligent exchange with its own clear code. The process of music therapy proves the ability of these people to internalise and communicate a wide spectrum of their experiences.

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