Launched at Readings Carlton on the 6th of July – Dr Kat McFerran’s ‘ Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy: Methods and Techniques for Clinicians, Educators, and Students’. This practical text, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, provides ideas, theoretical frameworks and inspiration for working with teenagers. The author canvasses a range of settings, from special schools to community settings, hospitals to paediatric palliative care, describing different ways of practicing music therapy from humanistic, psychodynamic and behavioural perspectives. The final section of the book moves into more contemporary approaches such as community music therapy, collaborative and consultative practices. A combination of stories and theoretical frameworks, this book is perfect for new RMTs and has been described as ‘inspiring’ and ‘moving’ by experience pracitioners. Available online through JKP at http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781849050197 or Amazon, or Footprints in Australia.