Music therapy and parent–infant bonding

Edwards, Jane

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580514.003.0002

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“…Infants prefer infant-directed singing and infant-directed speech to adult-directed speech (Fernald, 1989). Infants prefer music to speech (Edwards, 2011). Good-enough singing is better for maintaining emotional regulation than using infant-directed speech during painful procedures (Zwimpfer, 2017).…”

Section: Parental Singing As Social Affective Pain Alleviationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A music therapist works through partnership to support parents to understand and be sensitive to their infant's cues and encourages the parents' own potency to parent a sick infant and to find strategies they can use to interact with their infant (Edwards, 2011). Familiarity is a key component of music, which can provide comfort in a painful situation (Thompson, 2013).…”

Section: Implications For Music Therapy In Neonatal Pain Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Singing, sharing, soothing – biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management

Ullsten

Eriksson

Klässbo³

et al. 2018

Music & Science

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Infant-directed singing is a medium for parents and infants to communicate in a mutual relationship. Parental infantdirected singing is a multisensory, biopsychosocial communication that applies to ill and vulnerable hospitalised infants. The primary musical features of infant-directed singing are ideal for emotional coordination and sharing between parent and infant without the risk of over-stimulation. In this article, we suggest that parental infant-directed singing is regarded as a nonpharmacological emotion regulation intervention, which may modify the painful experience for both the infant and the parent before, during and after painful procedures in the neonatal intensive care context. Parents have the biopsychosocial resources to alleviate their infant's pain through infant-directed singing, if they are empowered to do so and coached in this process. A music therapist specialised in neonatal music therapy methods can mentor parents in how to use entrained and attuned live lullaby singing in connection to painful procedures. Pain and the vast amount of painful procedures early in infancy, combined with early parent-infant separation and lack of parental participation in the care of the infant during neonatal intensive care, place arduous strain on the new family's attachment process and on the infant's and parents' mental health, both from a short and long-term perspective. Therefore, we argue with biopsychosocial rationales, that live parental infant-directed singing should be promoted in neonatal pain care worldwide. Consequently, parents should be welcomed round the clock and invited as prescribed pain management for their infant.

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Section: Parental Singing As Social Affective Pain Alleviationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Music Therapy In Neonatal Pain Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Singing, sharing, soothing – biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management

Ullsten

Eriksson

Klässbo³

et al. 2018

Music & Science

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“…There were three books published in (Edwards, 2011Kern & Humpal, 2012;Tomlinson et al, 2012) of which 18 chapters matched the criteria for this research. The dominance of individual work between 2001 and 2005 cannot clearly be explained.…”

Section: Reflection On Most Important Findingsmentioning

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Literature Review of Early Childhood Music Therapy Between 1990-2012

Tuomi

Ala-Ruona

Oldfield

2017

Voices

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Abstr Abstract actThe article examines music therapy literature from 1990 to 2012 focusing on children aged 0 to 5-years old. The literature includes clinical descriptions, research articles, chapters in books, peer reviewed electronic publications, and peer reviewed journals. Altogether 125 different texts were found which fulfilled the criteria for inclusion. Simple quantitative analysis gave guidelines for deeper, comparative qualitative analysis. According to the data the older children were more often written about than younger children. Historically the dominance from individual work has been shifting to dyadic/family work. The active methods were most commonly singing and playing with instruments. Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were most strongly represented together with paediatric patients and children with developmental disabilities. Interaction between family members and the positive factors were emphasized in the articles. The importance of fun and enjoyment was underlined throughout all client groups. The results claim that more specific information of the effects of early childhood music therapy is needed. In addition, related areas of research, cross-scientific viewpoints, and common fields of interests should be taken into consideration in the future.

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“…Research in the area of infant communication would indicate that verbal meaning systems or means of relating may emerge from quite musical beginnings (Edwards, 2011;Trehub, Trainor & Unyk, 1993;Trevarthen & Malloch, 2000). 'Communicative musicality' is a theory which states that all humans have innate musical attributes that allow for co-ordinated companionship to progress (Malloch, 2000).…”

Section: Music Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…'Communicative musicality' is a theory which states that all humans have innate musical attributes that allow for co-ordinated companionship to progress (Malloch, 2000). Such musical capacity can be evidenced within the early stages of parent-infant communication where playful vocal exchanges occur that can be characterised in terms of fundamental musical components such as pitch, dynamics, tone, rhythm and duration (Edwards, 2011). This form of parent-infant communication, termed 'infant 4 directed speech', is thought to be a developmental pre-cursor to conversations proper where essential attributes of successful dialogue, such as enunciation and turn-taking, are played out (Schaffer, 1984).…”

Section: Music Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Music therapists’ experience of self in clinical improvisation in music therapy: A phenomenological investigation

McCaffrey

2013

The Arts in Psychotherapy

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How do music therapists experience themselves in clinical improvisation in music therapy? The aim of this inter-disciplinary study is to show how music therapists describe and experience the life-world of the self in clinical improvisation through phenomenological investigation. Informed by sociological social psychological theory proposing that the self develops in social discourses, this study explores the self within improvisation as a musical and inter-subjective space that is commonly used in music therapy practice. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of transcripts from semi-structured interviews with two music therapists revealed five central themes in relation to the life-world of the self in improvisation. These included; mindful meeting of equals, importance of the fundamentals, flexibility and adaptability, personal fulfilment and, balancing the professional and musical self.These findings support the idea of improvisation as a social discourse and suggest that this may have significant implications for clients and therapists who employ such a means of relating.

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Music therapy and parent–infant bonding

Cited by 26 publications

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Singing, sharing, soothing – biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management

Singing, sharing, soothing – biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management

Literature Review of Early Childhood Music Therapy Between 1990-2012

Music therapists’ experience of self in clinical improvisation in music therapy: A phenomenological investigation

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