This very detailed book on group music therapy with special needs children offers the music therapy community a welcome new resource. This is a refreshingly direct book, in which the writer has a strong commitment to her ideas and is not afraid of suggesting how others can make use of them.

Elaine Streeter, British Journal of Music Therapy

Although I am a seasoned professional with a considerable amount of experience working with children individually and in groups, I am pleased to say that I learned much new information from reading this book.

Ronna Kaplan, Journal of Music Therapy

As an experienced music therapist I find the book very challenging and welcoming. It puts group work in music therapy on the map. The book is a gold mine for educators of music therapy students.

Ida Gjul, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

A remarkable book has been written. Exemplary and comprehensive.

Dr. Dolores Nicoll, The Arts in Psychotherapy

Your book is amazing. As I read it I feel as if I am walking through a landscape with you, part familiar and part new, astonishing and challenging. It is an enormous piece of work! And so full of information. And what comes through is your way of balancing the near impossible demands of the school system with getting genuine music therapy accomplished. The book has wisdom, born of practical experience and perseverance, and integrity.

Dr. Clive Robbins

Music Therapy Groupwork is a welcome addition and will become a standard work both as a resource guide for practicing clinicians, and all levels of students that wish to know the essential theories and building blocks of groupwork practice with special needs children. Even though this book concentrates on educative models primarily coming from the USA I think it can be easily adapted to other countries...

Group work requires a sense of structure as well as an innate sense of improvisatory direction (musical and otherwise) that will allow members to grow and know their place within the group. The skills required providing a successful group in this setting therefore requires a high sense of confidence, musical skills and self. Coming to this book I wondered how the author might help me to demystify the process and understand the concrete yet transient nature of group and the individuals within it. Goodman indeed helped me understand the many different theories and approaches, placing my own work within the overall umbrella of clinical practice. Her knowledge and respect of different models and theories, and her ability to explain and contextualize them made this book approachable and comprehensive. .......There is ... a balance between what is known and understood, alongside new ideas that will add to the ongoing research and literature.

I know I will return to this text time and time again. It will become standard reading for all group work courses in our university and I look forward to exploring this book further with my students.

Dr. Colin Lee, The Canadian Journal of Music Therapy. Fall 2008.