Familiarity, Comfortableness and Predictability of Song as "Holding Environment" for Mothers of Premature Babies

Barcellos, Lia Rejane Mendes

doi:10.15845/voices.v6i1.243

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“…However the majority of the research involves programmes for mothers and infants, often with premature and/or hospitalized infants. This research includes Shoemark's study of infant-directed singing for medically fragile infants (Shoemark, 2008), Cevasco's study involving pre-term mothers and their infants (Cevasco, 2008), and Barcellos' research with premature babies using music as a 'holding' environment to allow attachment to happen (Barcellos, 2006). All of these studies report positive outcomes in their use of music therapy, particularly through building parental confidence in interacting with their infant, especially through singing.…”

Section: Attachment Theory and Music Therapy With Mothers And Infantsmentioning

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Attachment theory and music therapy: What was the relevance of attachment theory to a student’s music therapy programme for ‘at-risk’ mothers and their babies?

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<p>This qualitative secondary analysis research project sought to explore the relevance of attachment theory as it might apply to a music therapy programme set up and run within a residential service for ‘at risk’ mothers and their babies. The explicit purpose of the music therapy programme was to assist the mothers in bonding with their babies. The researcher was a student music therapist on placement at the facility, involved in weekly one-to-one sessions with a total of nineteen young women and their babies, over the time that each was resident at the facility. The music therapist also ran some weekly group sessions (mothers with babies) as part of the facility’s mandatory education programme. The music therapy programme took place over twenty-two weeks, with a two week break after the first ten weeks. The research analysis commenced on completion of the programme. Thematic analysis was used to look at two types of data; data from the placement (including clinical notes and personal reflective journal), and literature on attachment theory. There was an initial review of selected literature on attachment theory and music therapy. The researcher/student music therapist then carried out an inductive qualitative secondary analysis of the data that had been generated as a standard part of her practice over the period of the student placement. This was followed by a further examination of attachment theory literature to confirm key aspects of the theory. The findings from the inductive analysis were then looked at in the light of those identified key features of attachment theory. The research findings showed many strong links between key concepts of attachment theory, and the patterns that emerged from the placement data, manifesting on a number of different levels. However some patterns might be more usefully explained and/or elucidated by other theories. Findings suggested that attachment theory provided a useful framework and language for observing and understanding the interactive behaviours and external and personal structures that appeared to work for or against mother-infant bonding. In addition, the music therapy programme seemed a particularly suitable vehicle for promoting positive mother-infant bonding. However it was found that although the music therapy programme may have been helpful in a positive mother-infant bonding process, there was no evidence to suggest that this would necessarily extend to promoting a secure attachment relationship, given the personal, structural and legal factors associated with the high ‘at-risk’ context. An attachment-based music therapy programme may well have a more useful role to play in a lower risk context where mothers and babies remained for longer in the facility, and where the programme could continue throughout the women’s transition into the community and beyond.</p>

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Section: Attachment Theory and Music Therapy With Mothers And Infantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attachment theory and music therapy: What was the relevance of attachment theory to a student’s music therapy programme for ‘at-risk’ mothers and their babies?

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La portée musicale du lien en néonatologie et en réanimation néonatale : un soin « accordé » au bébé hospitalisé et à ses parents

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Bénony²

2009

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Familiarity, Comfortableness and Predictability of Song as "Holding Environment" for Mothers of Premature Babies

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Attachment theory and music therapy: What was the relevance of attachment theory to a student’s music therapy programme for ‘at-risk’ mothers and their babies?

Attachment theory and music therapy: What was the relevance of attachment theory to a student’s music therapy programme for ‘at-risk’ mothers and their babies?

La portée musicale du lien en néonatologie et en réanimation néonatale : un soin « accordé » au bébé hospitalisé et à ses parents

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