The use of music therapy in children’s hospices has burgeoned since its introduction by Jessie’s Fund in the mid-90s. This moving and extremely helpful text brings together the experiences of eleven music therapists working with children who are in the final stages of life-limiting illness.
The contributors adapt music therapy to hospice environments and explore key concerns for all practitioners, including how to empower ill children and their families, how to help bereaved siblings, and how the therapists themselves find support. The book celebrates the communities created through an inclusive music therapy practice with children, their families and hospice staff.
This text is essential reading for all music therapists working in palliative care and for health care professionals considering introducing music as a therapy.
Table of Content
Foreword, Victoria Wood. Introduction, Mercédès Pavlicevic. 1. `When I Grow Up’, Lesley Schatzberger. 2. Beginnings of Music Therapy in Our Hospice, Cathy Ibberson. 3. Music and Medicine: Music Therapy within Medical Setting, Catherine Sweeney-Brown.4. A Creative Response to Loss: Developing a Music Therapy Group for Bereaved Siblings, Jane Mayhew. 5. Brief Encounters, Ceridwen Rees. 6. `A Bohemian Rhapsody’: Using Music Technology to Fulfil the Aspirations of Teenage Lads with Muscular Dystrophy, Neil Eaves. 7. The Open Music Therapy Group Session, Brigitte Schwarting. 8. Living Community: Music Therapy with Children and Adults in a Hospice Setting, Graeme Davis. 9. `This Musical Life’: TÅ· Hafan Children’s Hospice – A Place for Living, Diane Wilkinson. 10. From Hospice to Home: Music Therapy Outreach, Kathryn Nall and Elinor Everitt. 11. Needing Support: A Therapist’s Perspective, Gill Cubitt. Before We Conclude, Mercédès Pavlicevic. Conclusion: Working Together in Music Therapy, Chris Stratton and Jane Mayhew. List of Contributors. Index. CD Order Form.
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