Music therapy in palliative care : new voices / edited by David Aldridge.

Other author Aldridge, David, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998.
Description175 pages : music ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music therapy.
Palliative treatment.

Contents Introduction / David Aldridge -- Music therapy and the creative act / David Aldridge -- Music therapy as milieu in the hospice and paediatric oncology ward / Trygve Aasgaard -- Lyrical themes in songs written by palliative care patients / Clare C. O'Callaghan -- Creativity and communication aspects of music therapy in a children's hospital / Beth Dun -- Music therapy at the end of life: searching for the rite of passage / Bridgit Hogan -- Music therapy in chronic degenerative illness: reflecting the dynamic sense of self / Wendy Magee -- Music: a means of comfort / Susan Weber -- Music therapists' personal reflections on working with those, who are living with HIV/AIDS / Nigel Alan Hartley -- Music therapy with HIV positive and AIDS patients / Lutz Neugebauer -- The implications of melodic expression for music therapy with a breast cancer patient / Gudrun Aldridge -- Writing and therapy: into a new tongue / Rob Finlayson.
Abstract Within the last decade music therapists have developed their work with people who have life-threatening illnesses and with those who are dying. This book presents some of that work from music therapists working in different approaches, in different countries, showing how valuable the inclusion of music therapy in palliative care has already proved to be. It is important for the dying, or those with terminal illness, that approaches are used which integrate the physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of their being. The contributors to this book emphasize the importance of working not only with the patient but with the ward situation, friends and family members. By offering patients the chance to be creative they become something other than patients--they become expressive beings, and there is an intimacy in music therapy that is important for those who are suffering. Many of the contributors write in their own personal voice, providing a particular insight which will be valuable not only to other music therapists seeking to enrich their own ways of working, but to all those involved in caring for the sick and the dying. Contributors describe their work with both children and adults living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-169) and indexes.
LCCN 98045893
ISBN1853027391 (pb : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3920 .M89795 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold