A conference at Anglia Ruskin University's Department of Music and Performing Arts, at East Road in Cambridge, is set to look at how music therapy can aid people suffering from trauma.

The two-day event, on 23 and 24 November, entitled Trauma: Current Thinking and Practice in Music Therapy is aimed at a diverse audience including those who are affected or live with those affected by trauma. Also included are a range of music therapists and professionals from the healthcare sector.

Increasingly, trauma is being recognised as the source of a wide range of pathologies and manifestations of psychological distress. At this conference, music therapists from a number of European countries, including the UK, Israel, Slovenia and Germany, will present work with people who have been traumatised.

This is as a result of a range of experiences including:

• war and conflict
• abuse
• disability
• maternal separation
• depression
• brain injury.

The keynote speaker for the event is Dr Julie Sutton, a clinician-researcher at the Centre for Psychotherapy in Belfast. She has worked as a music therapist in Dublin, London, Mostar, Belarus, Belfast and Minsk.

The full conference fee is £100/£50 (concessions). For further information contact Magda Generalczyk at Anglia Ruskin University on m.generalczyk@anglia.ac.uk or 0845 196 2080. A full conference schedule is also available at www.anglia.ac.uk/mpaevents.