HLTHAGE 4O03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internal Medicine, Palliative Care, Music Therapy
5 Nov 2018
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Uses, examples of specialities: psychiatry - mental illness, counseling trauma, self-esteem, general medicine and nursing pain relief, distraction, coping (not to be confused with music medicine, which is pre-recorded aka. Response: expressive complementary therapy mental wellbeing and understanding, rehabilitation science drugs, injury, stroke, palliative care coping, understanding, departure, long-term care/gerontology communication in dementia, pediatrics normalization of medical environment, bonding. Intellectual disabilities: cognitive and behavioral disorders, crisis and trauma, prenatal stress relief, depression, addiction, copd, cancer, refugees. The social and cultural role of music: the therapist much acknowledge the influence of their sociocultural heritage (perhaps in a social-democratic country, such as canada) on their values, beliefs, etc. Eyertman & jamison (1998) posit that music can stand in opposition to the status quo, dominant social and cultural norms, by elucidating other epistemologies, narratives, and/or ideologies. Example music therapists for peace (founder: edith boxill) In the community from privately practicing therapists (paid for out of pocket).
