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A Decade of Innovation!
A Celebration of Medical Music Therapy
Saturday, January 28, 2001
8 AM – 5 PM
Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston
51 Blossom St. Boston, MA 02114
Contractual Medical Music Therapy Learning
Heather Wagner, MMT, MT-BC
Medical centers and hospitals may have an interest in music therapy, but not the resources for full-time positions or even an accurate understanding of music therapy. Contractual work may be the way for a music therapist to “get a foot in the door”. Itinerant work in any setting is challenging, and there are unique challenges to contractual medical service. Issues such as educating about music therapy, developing relationships with medical staff and other team members, program growth, and self-care are paramount.
A Music Therapy Approach to Coping with Hospitalization
Carol Shultis, MEd, MT-BC, LPC
Clinical experience and clinical research with a wide spectrum of adult medical patients have led to a series of music therapy interventions for addressing the uncertainty, pain and overall discomfort of illness and hospitalization. Choosing from a repertoire of options, the therapist might use song choice, singing to or with the patient, lyric and song writing and music-assisted relaxation and imagery to address specific psychosocial, spiritual and physiological needs of patients. The intention of these interventions is to assist the patient in mobilizing coping skills to manage and integrate the hospital experience.
From Infants to Adolescents: Developmentally-based Music therapy Interventions for Chronically Ill Children
Christine Neugebauer, MS, MT-BC, LPC
This session will provide a developmental portrait of music therapy with chronically ill children in the pediatric medical setting. The presenter will review the needs and issues of chronically-ill children at various states of development with particular attention to genetic disorders such as gastroschisis, renal disease, and mitochondrial disease. Case examples will demonstrate specific developmentally-based music therapy interventions such as music-based developmental stimulation, music-facilitated dramatic play, active music engagement, and therapeutic music instruction.
Development and Implications of a Working Model of Music Therapy as Procedural Support for Invasive Medical Procedures
Claire M. Ghetti, Ph.D., LCAT, MT-BC, CCLS
Music therapists partake in a complex and reflexive process when engaging clients in therapeutic interactions to help them cope with the demands of invasive medical procedures. The research and clinical literature describes differing approaches to music therapy as procedural support, but no clear theory of the phenomenon has been developed. This session will discuss the recent development of a working model of music therapy as procedural support for invasive medical procedures, and will focus on the implications of this model for research and clinical practice.
The Final Movement: Music Therapy and Pediatric Palliative Care
Deborah Benkovitz, LSW, MSW, MT-BC
Music reaches us in numerous ways, helping us live fully even as life comes to a close. This session will offer ways that music therapy can help children in palliative and hospice care cope with physical and emotional pain while enhancing communication, socialization and spirituality. By offering patients opportunities to choose songs, examine lyrics, create music, be expressive through music and reminisce, music therapy helps patients increase the overall quality of life and support patients and families through the final journey. Case studies will be used to illustrate some of the interventions and highlight the impact of music therapy with this population.
Ethical Issues in Medical Music Therapy
Debbie Bates, MMT, MT-BC
This presentation will explore ethical issues that may be encountered in medical settings. Participants will review the core ethical principles and explore the interface of ethical principles with ethical dilemmas. Participants will brainstorm ideas for resolving ethical dilemmas in medical music therapy settings.
$80 for Professionals and $35 for Students
8 CMTEs
Breakfast and Lunch Included
No prerequisites are required to attend this symposium
For More Information Contact:
Stephanie Clark & Annette Whitehead-Pleaux
musictherapy@shrinenet.org
617-371-4955
The learning objective for the conference is that participants will learn about the family centered care with music therapy, developmental music therapy interventions, the latest theories and models for music therapy as procedural support, and ways to deal with ethical dilemmas.
A Decade of Innovation! is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 8 Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. Credits awarded by the CBMT are accepted by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). The New England Region of the American Music Therapy Association, #P-063, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.
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