Amelia Oldfield has produced several videos focusing on aspects of her work with different clients groups. These can be purchased from the British Association for Music Therapy and from the Departmental Administrator, priced £16 plus p&p.

Amelia Oldfield, Rod Macdonald and Joy Nudds, (1999)
Training as a Music Therapist - The MA in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin.

Training video produced by the University, available from the Anglia Ruskin University Music Department administrator or the British Society for Music Therapy.

This video explains the MA Music Therapy Training course and shows students undertaking different aspects of the training. It is useful for anyone interested in training as a music therapist.

Amelia Oldfield (1992)
Music Therapy at the Child Development Centre, Cambridge.

This 38 minute video illustrates the practical aspects of Amelia Oldfield's work at the Child Development Centre, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Excerpts from three individual music therapy sessions with Jamie, a three year old boy with cerebral palsy; Hannah, a seven year old girl with childhood autism and Rachel, a four year old girl with language delay, are shown. These individual sessions are followed by excerpts from two group music therapy sessions, the first a multidisciplinary group with parents and toddlers with a variety of physical and social difficulties: the second a group of five to seven year old children with language disorders.

The video should be useful to anyone with an interest in music therapy, and in particular medical and paramedical staff, teachers or assistants working in special schools, parents, music therapists or music therapy students.

 

Amelia Oldfield, (1994)
"Timothy - Music Therapy with a Little Boy who has Asperger's Syndrome", Training Video Produced at Addenbrookes Hospital.

This 32 minute video is about Timothy, a little boy of four who has Asperger's Syndrome. Excerpts from four individual music therapy sessions taken every two to two and a half months, over a period of a year, will be shown. As a point of comparison, four short excerpts of interactions with babies are included. This should be useful to anyone with an interest in music therapy and in particular medical and paramedical staff, teachers or assistants working in special schools, parents, music therapists and music therapy students.

 

Amelia Oldfield (1999)
Music Therapy for Children on the Autistic Spectrum

This video is relevant to anyone with an interest in music therapy or autism. It shows and discusses a wide range of children with various types of autism, having individual and group music therapy sessions. Interactions occurring in music therapy sessions are compared to interactions between chamber music players, as well as to mother-baby interactions. Also available in DVD format.

 

 

Amelia Oldfield (2002)
Joshua and Barry: Music Therapy with a Partially-Sighted Little Boy with Cerebral Palsy

This video starts just before Joshua's second birthday and finishes just before he starts attending nursery at three and a half. Excerpts of music therapy sessions with Joshua and his father Barry during those eighteen months are included on the video. Many other aspects of Joshua and Barry's life are also included on the video including shots of the two of them at home, physiotherapy sessions, a swimming session and Joshua and Barry at playgroup.

The video should be useful to anyone with an interest in music therapy, cerebral palsy and partially sighted children.

 

Amelia Oldfield, Joy Nudds and Rod Macdonald (2005)
The Croft - A Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry in Cambridge

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 also 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.

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