Music Therapy for Children and Adults with Cancer

Hart, Jane

doi:10.1089/act.2009.15510

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“…12 Music therapy is also used to facilitate healing during the grieving process and is very common in cancer settings with both patients and caregivers benefitting. 13 Yoga, massage, and other complementary therapies that ease stress and promote relaxation may also be of benefit for some individuals.…”

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Moving Through Loss: Addressing Grief in Our Patients

HartJane

2012

Alternative and Complementary Therapies

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Moving Through Loss: Addressing Grief in Our Patients

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2012

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“…In this way, they could work together to decide the techniques that worked best for M.S. and use aspects of the interventions to help manage other symptoms, such as pain, nausea, and anxiety (Hart, 2009). Following these sessions, a nurse assessed M.S.…”

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“…self-worth, self-confidence, and some sense of control (Hart, 2009). In some treatment settings, the music therapist might work with an entire group, such as with the chime circle.…”

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Music Therapy: A Valuable Adjunct in the Oncology Setting

Mahon

Mahon²

2011

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Music therapy is the supervised and therapeutic use of music by a credentialed therapist to promote positive clinical outcomes. It can be a valuable form of complementary medicine in the oncology setting to decrease patient stress and anxiety, relieve pain and nausea, provide distraction, alleviate depression, and promote the expression of feelings. The music therapist assesses the patient and consults other members of the multidisciplinary team to create a therapeutic treatment plan. Music therapists design music sessions based on patients' needs and their intended therapeutic goals. Patients can participate actively or passively in individual or group sessions. Only a credentialed music therapist can provide safe and beneficial music therapy interventions.

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“…palliative and hospice care vary from reducing physical symptoms and increasing tolerance for treatment to easing emotional pain and spiritual distress. [7][8][9] Physical Symptoms and Pain Management Music can be used to create a calm environment, which in turn can improve management of other distressful symptoms. Brown et al 10 showed through positron emission tomography scans of the brains of 10 healthy subjects that even unfamiliar instrumental music can activate the limbic and paralimbic areas of the brain, resulting in ''strongly pleasant feelings.''…”

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“…10(p2033) Autonomic functions can be affected through music's effects on the central nervous system and hormone production, thereby lowering blood pressure and heart rate, slowing or speeding up respirations, and decreasing nausea by decreasing the brain wave frequency, which affects gastric activity. 8 Music can be an effective means of promoting a state of relaxation in patients and improving sleep. The tempo and rhythms in a musical piece can be matched with a patient's breathing to slow and deepen the breaths.…”

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Music as a Therapeutic Resource in End-of-Life Care

Black¹,

Penrose-Thompson²

2012

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing

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Music has been used in a variety of settings by nurses and other providers to ease their patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual distress. In end-of-life settings, music has been shown to improve quality of life. Nurses have noted the usefulness of music in practice but perceive that they have limited knowledge and skills about how to use music and lack the resources to implement its use. Drawing on knowledge from music therapy and music-thanatology, we describe the receptive approach to the use of music in palliative care and hospice settings. This approach is characterized by active listening and using techniques that are accessible to nurses who may not have music training. Nurses can help patients select music that evokes memories or feelings and helps divert their attention from emotional and physical distress. Music may be an effective tool for reviewing one's life, through which a patient moves toward acceptance of death by giving meaning to his or her life. Near the end of life, prescriptive music may be used during bedside vigils to accompany the patient in the transition from life to death. KEY WORDShospice care, music, nursing, palliative care M usic is basic to the human experience. From lullabies that calm fretful babies to mournful dirges over the dead, music marks lives' ordinary and extraordinary events. William Congreve, an English playwright and poet, in 1697 penned the famous line ''Music has charms to soothe a savage breast'' in his tragic play The Mourning Bride. Two hundred thirty years later, another English writer, Aldous Huxley, 1 noted, ''After silence, that which comes the nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'' Music can engage the human spirit and reach the deeper realms of a person's psyche and spirit, lending itself to easing physical and emotional distress as well as serving as a vehicle of transcendence from suffering to ease, and from life to death. Nurses have noted the usefulness of music in practice but perceived that they have limited knowledge and skills about the use of music and resources to implement its use. 2 The purposes of this article are dual: (1) to describe the therapeutic use of music in hospice and palliative care settings using examples from practice and (2) to inform nurses and other clinicians of resources to enhance their use of music in their practice with patients at the end of life. Drawing from the music therapy literature, this article details the roles of music in palliative and hospice care and describes ways in which clinicians can use music effectively in supporting their patients who are approaching the end of their lives.Healthcare providers in a variety of settings have found music's remarkable attributes to be beneficial. A burgeoning literature exists on the effective use of music in long-term-care facilities, care of the elderly, and care of persons with dementia. Similarly, terminally ill children and adolescents benefit from music, which can help them feel supported, improve self-esteem, express emotions, resolve conflicts, ...

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Music Therapy for Children and Adults with Cancer

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Moving Through Loss: Addressing Grief in Our Patients

Moving Through Loss: Addressing Grief in Our Patients

Music Therapy: A Valuable Adjunct in the Oncology Setting

Music as a Therapeutic Resource in End-of-Life Care

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