Are the five projects real?

They are realistic but imaginary: settings, people and names are invented, while context data, objectives and budgets are plausible for Italy today and arithmetically consistent. They are not templates to photocopy: they are examples to study and adapt.

Which settings do they cover?

Five: a care home for people with dementia, a group of children with ADHD, rehabilitation after stroke, a prevention project in a secondary school, and a recovery-oriented mental health programme. Each is worked through from beginning to end with the same eleven sections.

How do you adapt one of them to your own setting?

By changing what the setting dictates — numbers, timing, organisational constraints, available measures — and keeping the logical chain: identified need, objectives that follow from it, consistent activities, indicators that can prove your expectations wrong.

Is it useful for a thesis?

Yes: it shows how an intervention is documented from needs analysis to final feedback, and it is the practical companion to «Progettare in musicoterapia», whose vocabulary it uses.

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The Project Workbook

Five applied settings · In Italian

How does the same project structure adapt to a nursing home and to a primary school class, to a neurorehabilitation ward and to a community mental health centre? This workbook answers with the only convincing means: five complete projects, written out in full, ready to be studied and adapted. It is the operational twin of "Designing Music Therapy Projects".

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Why this workbook exists

Because the structure of a project is only truly understood when you see it filled in. For each of the five projects you find documented context and needs, measurable goals, methodology, timeline, a budget checked item by item, an evaluation plan, risks and continuity — with the realistic numbers of today's Italy.

They are not templates to photocopy: they are examples to question, alongside the structure of the manual they accompany.

What you find in the PDF (37 pages)

1 · Melodies of Memory
A nursing home where biographical music reduces agitation in people with dementia — the guiding thread of the whole series

2 · Rhythms of Attention
A third-grade class with six children learning to wait their turn in rhythm games

3 · Neurological rehabilitation
An outpatient clinic where rhythm reorganizes walking after a stroke

4 · Secondary school
Writing songs to work on classroom climate, between wellbeing and prevention

5 · Mental health
A recovery-oriented music group for adults

For every project
The complete eleven-section structure, from abstract to essential bibliography

Who it is for

→ Students writing their first placement project who want a complete example in front of them
→ Music therapists entering a new setting and looking for a documented starting point
→ Anyone who has read "Designing Music Therapy Projects" and wants to see its structure applied
→ Teachers looking for realistic cases to discuss in the classroom

Download the PDF — it's free

Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Share it freely, citing the source. The volume is in Italian.

How to cite: Caneva, P. A. (2026). Quaderno dei progetti. https://canevapaolo.it

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In the same series

1 Observing in Music Therapy 2 Designing Music Therapy Projects — the manual this workbook applies 4 Evaluating in Music Therapy 5 Other People's Tools → All free resources