Forensic Music Therapy: A Treatment for Men and Women in Secure Hospital Settings

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Stella Compton Dickinson is Research Lead in Arts Therapies at Rampton High Security Hospital Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Forensic Services and a Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health Nottingham. She has worked as an NHS clinician manager and researcher for over fifteen years presenting developments internationally. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist accredited supervisor and registered music therapist. She has published developments in music therapy in forensic settings and successfully implemented an ethically approved controlled research study in a high secure hospital to develop the clinical evidence base for context specific forensic music therapy. Helen Odell-Miller is Professor of Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge and an honorary music therapist in the Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust. She has worked as a clinician researcher and manager specialising in adult mental health. She has published and lectured internationally and led research projects looking at clinical outcomes in dementia and arts therapies in the adult mental health field. She is a board member of the International Centre for Research in the Arts Therapies the Professional Advisory Board for Allied Health Professions and The Music Therapy Charity. John Adlam is Consultant Adult Forensic Psychotherapist in Reflective Practice and Team Development with S London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust and also Principal Adult Psychotherapist and Lead for Group Therapies with St George's Adult Eating Disorders Service. He trained in Psychoanalytical Group Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre and in Forensic Psychotherapeutic Studies at the Portman Clinic. He was formerly Vice-President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.