Music Therapy in Children’s Palliative Care

Victoria Kammin is a music therapist who specialises in paediatric palliative care from Surrey, UK. She is Director of Resonance Creative Therapy, Lecturer on the MSc Music Therapy training at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh and undertaking her PhD at the University of York with the Paediatric Palliative Care Research Group. Julie Russell is a freelance illustrator, teacher and lived-experience practitioner from Essex, UK. She has been married for over 25 years, is mother to a teenage son, and a bereaved parent to a toddler. Julie has given motivational talks about her family’s experiences with paediatric palliative care and is a member of the Family Advisory Board at Martin House Research Centre, University of York.

Introduction. 1. The Need for Belonging 2. Lines of communication: creating continuing bonds on the neonatal unit. 3. Sophie’s Wonderful World: The Impact of Music Therapy on a Family Caring for a Life Limited Child 4. Freya’s Light 5. The Power of Connection: Family-Centred Virtual Music Therapy Groups 6. ‘Alive, brave and free. That’s what music means to me’: celebrating the diverse voices of a children’s hospice community through collaborative songwriting 7. Music Therapy in Paediatric Palliative Care: A link between the Hospice and Hospital. 8. "Things change and that's the way it is": Therapeutic songwriting with young adults transitioning from paediatric palliative care 9. The Gods of Music