Music Therapy IN HEALTHCARE: Expanding Care, Enhanching Lives
ABOUT THE SERIES
Explore how music therapy can expand care and strengthen services across diverse healthcare settings. Featuring experienced clinicians, researchers, and program leaders, this five-part series examines evidence-based clinical practice, program development, trauma-informed care, reimbursement, and hospice services. Together, the sessions connect research with practical strategies for integrating music therapy more fully into healthcare systems while responding to the evolving needs of patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams.
O1 Music Therapy 2022: An Integrated, Essential Healthcare Service
DR. JAYNE STANDLEY • DR. LORI GOODING • CIELE KNOX
Explore a vision of music therapy as an essential, fully integrated healthcare service through referral considerations, assessment approaches, evidence-based interventions, and outcome documentation grounded in decades of research and clinical practice.
02 Music Therapy Clinical Practice: Protocols, Sample Forms and Video Demonstrations
DR. AMY ROBERTSON
Examine a data-based approach to clinical music therapy practice through practical protocols, documentation resources, and applied examples designed to support efficient, evidence-informed service delivery across diverse populations.
03 Medical Music Therapy: Organizing Teams, New Services, and Reimbursement Aspects
CIELE KNOX
Explore strategies for developing medical music therapy programs, building interdisciplinary relationships, leading clinical teams, introducing services in new units, and advocating for the resources needed to sustain and expand care.
04 Music Therapy in Mental Health: Understanding Trauma
DR. CHRISTOPHER BEACH
Examine key concepts in trauma and neuroanatomy and consider how music therapy objectives and techniques can be integrated into trauma-informed practice to support clients who have experienced significant adversity.
05 Hospice Music Therapy: Patient Needs and Services in a Changing World
SUSAN DROESSLER
Explore the evolving role of music therapy in hospice and palliative care and consider how evidence-based interventions can address individualized goals, support patients and families, and enhance quality of life at the end of life.
