Filling a Need While Making Some Noise

Text offers guidelines for music therapists interested in working in pediatrics. Topics include the necessity of music therapy, the group experience, interaction with the hospital staff, the acute medical setting, tools of the trade, critical care units, the family and friends of patients, suffering, survival tips, and more. Softcover.

Foreword

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Prelude

12

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A Note on the Text

14

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The Gospel According to Me

15

(5)

#1 Goal: Fun

16

(4)

Is All this Noise Really Necessary? (You Betcha)

20

(12)

In the beginning

20

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Child Life

21

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Perfect place for a music therapist

22

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Empowering patients

24

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Respect

26

(1)

Child development

27

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Knowing appropriate parental behavior when you see it

28

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The job is five days/week

29

(3)

The Group Experience

32

(15)

Music therapy group

32

(2)

Safety first -- group instruments

34

(2)

Parents in the group

36

(1)

Group songs

37

(6)

Cue the group

43

(1)

Changing the group to fit individual needs

44

(1)

Drum improvisation group

45

(1)

Hussy!

46

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The Importance of Being Staff

47

(22)

Recognizing the expertise of others

47

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Co-treating

48

(2)

Celebrations

50

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Nurse as ally

51

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I'll do anything

53

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Support your local nurse!

57

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Priority patients

59

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Hierarchy

60

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Be kind to housekeepers

61

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MT assessment -- what do you really need to know?

62

(3)

Data collection -- less is more

65

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Charting

66

(1)

Rounds

67

(1)

Changing the environment

68

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Getting Specific in the Acute Medical Setting

69

(8)

Common diseases in pediatrics

69

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Bone marrow transplant/stem cell transplant

73

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Isolation

74

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Latex allergies

75

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Child abuse

76

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Tools of the Trade

77

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Piano lessons

77

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Songwriting

78

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Song choosing

80

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Worst ages/best ages

81

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Nicole

83

(3)

Back door approach

86

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Ashley

87

(2)

Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club

89

(11)

Friends

89

(2)

Boundaries

91

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Psychosocial aspects to cancer

94

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Bad times -- relapse

95

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Father and son

97

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The Art of the Family

100

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Hospitalization as a monkey wrench

100

(2)

Siblings

102

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Brothers

103

(1)

Brandy

104

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Funerals

105

(3)

Critical Care Units

108

(7)

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

108

(2)

DJ

110

(1)

Burn unit

111

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There Are All Kinds of Suffering

115

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Pain and fear

115

(3)

Guided imagery

118

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Cancer treatment changes

119

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A word to parents -- you know who you are

120

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Complaint Department

122

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Complaints? Moi?

122

(2)

Adagio for strings -- a controlled substance

124

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Religious conversion on pediatrics

125

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Height issues, or size does matter

125

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Grande Finale (Finally)

128

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Toddlers keep you humble

128

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Survival tips

129

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Coda

130

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References

132

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