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Music Therapy at the End of Life (2005)
by Cheryl Dileo, PhD, MT-BC and Joanne Loewy, DA, MT-BC
340 pages
Patients and their families coping with life threatning illnesses experience compelling needs in multiple domains, including the physical and instrumental, psychosocial, spiritual and economic. Historically, these needs have been poorly addressed by a complex health care system focused on a curative model of care. In many countries of the developed world, alternative models have evolved in an effort to provide holistic and comprehensive care that is not intended to treat the disease or its complications primarily, but rather, to relieve suffering for patients and their families, particularly at the end of life. Collectively known as “palliative care”, numerous alternative models have evolved around the world and have, to greater or lesser extent, attempted integration into health care systems.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Prelude
Foreward
Russel Portenoy
Preface: Preparing for the Passage
Joanne V. Loewy
Introduction: State of the Art
Cheryl Dileo & Dawn Dneaster
Part II: Clinical Issues and Specialized Populations
1. Music Therapy: Enhancing Spirituality at the End if Life
Lucanne Magill
2. Enhancing Quality of Life for People Diagnosed with a Terminal Illness
Russell E. Hilliard
3. Interfacing Music Therapy with Older Arts Modalities to Address Anticipatory Grief and Bereavement in Pediatrics
John Mondanaro
4. Music Therapy to Enhance Coping in Terminally Ill Adult Cancer Patients
Suzanne B. Hanser
5. Final Moments: The Use of Song in Relationship Completion
Cheryl Dileo & Courtney Parker
6. Developing Pain Management Approaches in Music Therapy with Hospitalized Children
Jane Edwards
7. In-Between: Music Therapy with Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant
Cheryl Dileo & Michael Zanders
8. Music Therapy Approaches for Patients with Dimentia at End of Life
Lauren Patrick & Kathleen Avins
9. Cultural Issues in Music Therapy at End of Life
Cheryl Dileo & Rima Starr
10. Lift Thine Eyes: Music Used as a Transitional Element in Passage
Joanne V. Loewry, Terry Altilio, & Margaret Dietrich
Part III: Music Therapy Methods
11. ‘Love…….Actually:’ Attempting to Articulate the Heart of Hospice
Nigel Hartley
12. Song Writing in Threatened Lives
Clare O’Callaghan
13. The Use of Therapist-Composed Song in End of Life
Robert E. Kraut
14. The Use of Lullabies as A Transient Motif in Ending Life
Joanne V. Loewy & Andrew Stewart
15. Living in Music
Colin Andrew Lee
16. Music Imaging for Persons at the End of Life
Brian Abrams & Roseann Kasayka
17. “Dying Alive” – A Transpersonal, Analytical Music Therapy Approach for Adults with Chronic, Progressive Neurological
Diseases
Benedikte Barth Scheiby
18. Devotional Music Therapy: Contemplative Vocal Music and Passage
Silvia Nakkach
19. The Clinical Use of Therapist’s Voice and Improvisation in End of Life Care
Nadine Elizabeth Cadesky
20. Music Meditation in the ICU
Mechelle Chestnut, Michelle Duncan, Sarah Gagnon & Brian Schreck
21. Environmental Music Therapy, Life, Death and the ICU
Steve Schneider
Part IV: Professional Issues
22. Outward Bound: Advancing Music Therapy in Palliative Care
Bridget Hogan
23. The Role of Music Therapy in Care for the Caregivers of the Terminally Ill
Kristin Stewart, Rabbi Jeffery Silberman, Joanne Loewy, Steve Schneider, Benedikte Scheiby, Amy Bobo,
Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff, Barbara Beckford, & Deborah Salmon
24. Ultimate Journeys: Clinical Internship in End of Life Care
Deborah Salmon
25. Advanced Music Training in End of Life Care
Cheryla Dileo & Joanne Loewy
Part V: Postlude
Moments in Time
Susan Porchet Munro
References
About the Authors and Contributors