Ep 82 Elaine Streeter

Elaine is a BAMT registered clinical supervisor, and consultant
lead visitor for the HCPC.  She studied piano and
composition at GSMD, and trained as a music therapist with Dr
Paul Nordoff and Dr Clive Robbins in London. After running the
music therapy service at the CDC, Charing Cross Hospital for
several years, and completing an MA research thesis in music
therapy at the University of York, Elaine was appointed Senior
Lecturer at the Roehampton Institute where she developed a new
post-graduate course in Music Therapy. Her music therapy practice
with children, young people, and adults ran alongside her
lecturing work, She trained as a psychodynamic counsellor at the
Westminster Pastoral Foundation and taught various aspects of
music therapy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for many
years, including clinical improvisation.


Following a Churchill Research Fellowship in the 1980's, Elaine
initiated,  developed and coordinated the BAMT (formerly
APMT) post training supervision scheme for registered music
therapists in the UK. She has an established supervision practice
working with individual therapists and small group supervision
for and supervisors working in the UK and abroad.


Previous Roles


Acting Head of Music Therapy, Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, London.


Visiting Professor of Music Therapy Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, London.


Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy, Clinical Tutor, and Clinical
Music Improvisation Tutor, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.


Head of Music Therapy Training, Senior Lecturer, University of
Roehampton UK.


Initiator and Coordinator of the Association of Professional
Music Therapists* Post-Diploma Supervision Scheme, UK.


Music Therapy Group Training Therapist for students studying for
Masters in Music Therapy degrees at :


Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Nordoff Robbins Centre
London, University of the West of England, and Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge.


Music Therapy Charity Ph,D. Research Fellowship at the University
of York.


University of York PhD Research Fellowship in Music Therapy,


Churchill Fellowship in Music Therapy.


Clinical Music Improvisation Tutor, Nordoff Robbins Institute at
Southlands College.


Head Music Therapist, Child Development Centre, Paediatric
Department, Charing Cross Hospital, London.


References


Streeter, E. et al: The Arts in Psychotherapy 39 (2012) 1–10
'Computer aided music therapy evaluation: Testing the Music
Therapy Logbook prototype 1 system'


Streeter, E. (2011) 'From Trainee to Practitioner: the
supervision of registered music therapists' Chapter 13 in Karen D
Goodman's 'Music Therapy Education and Training: from Theory to
Practice' Charles C Thomas publisher USA


‘Streeter, E. (2010) ‘Computer-Aided Music Therapy Evaluation:
Investigating and Testing the Music Therapy Logbook Prototype I’
Ph,D. Thesis (York)


Streeter, E. (2006). What Are We Doing to Ourselves? The Branding
of Music Therapy in Academia. In: Hadley, S. (Ed), Feminist
Perspectives in Music Therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.
p.359.


Streeter, E. (2001). Making Music with the Young Child with
Special Needs: A Guide for Parents. Revised Edition London:
Jessica Kingsley Publishers.


Streeter, E. (1999) Finding a balance between psychological
thinking and musical awareness in music therapy theory — a
psychoanalytic perspective. British Journal of Music
Therapy 


Streeter, E. (1999) Definition and Use of the Musical
Transference Relationship. In: Wigram, T. & De Backer, J.
(Eds), Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Psychiatry.
London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Chap.15, p.84-90.


Streeter, E. (1981).Towards a Theoretical Understanding of
Rhythmic Responses in Music Therapy. British Society of Music
Therapy. Monograph. Available from: British Association of Music
Therapy, UK.


Streeter, E. (1979). A Theoretical Background to the
Interpretation of Rhythmic Skills, with Particular Reference to
the Use of Music Therapy as an Aid to the Clinical Assessment of
Pre-School Children. MA Thesis. Department of Music, University
of York.