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Pediatric palliative care is a highly specialized population for music therapists, and this text provides clinical guidelines and best-practice interventions to serve terminally ill children, adolescents, and their families.
Settings of care vary from the acute care hospital to home care with hospice, and this text offers care provisions unique to each setting. Ethical issues and dilemmas, along with the need for practitioner self-care are also discussed.
Table of Contents
Dedication…………………………………………………………………. 4
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………… 5
Contributors……………………………………………………………… 6
PART I
An Overview of Music Therapy in
Pediatric Palliative Care……………………………………………. 9
Russell Hilliard
PART 2
Heartsongs from the Hospital Setting………………………… 61
Kayla Zuckerman
Amanda Maestro-Scherer
PART 3
Heartsongs from the Home Setting…………………………….. 105
Jessica Sturgeon
Yelena Zatulovsky
PART 4
The Clinicians’ Perspectives on the “Why” and
Importance of Self-Care………………………………………………. 167
Russell Hilliard
Jessica Sturgeon
Yelena Zatulovsky
Kayla Zuckerman
Amanda Maestro-Scherer