MU158 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Music Therapy, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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Chapter 1: when life begins too early: music therapy in a. This medical music therapy focuses on the impact of selected music programs on infant development and behaviour. Goal is to reestablish the interrupted mother baby bonding process. Jane born at 26 weeks, immediately brought to nicu. Placed in incubator, acoustal environment dominated by technology. For mothers, seeing the combination of highly technical surroundings and the state of her baby is enourmously stressful. This is a place to offer musical psychotherapeutic support. Premature baby = early physical and mental trauma. In dealing with stressful experiences, infant uses energy that should be spent on development and growth. In technical environment, baby has to live and grow deprived of all the normal sensory experiences they had in womb. Experience profound range of stressors akin to trauma. Mother of premature baby cannot help her baby stay alive. Is replaced by doctors, nurses, and technical environment.
