Sounding Together: Family-Centered Music Therapy as Facilitator for Parental Singing During Skin-to-Skin Contact

Haslbeck, Friederike; Hugoson, Pernilla

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65077-7_13

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“…Before the therapy sequence started, the parents were asked about their musical wishes, so their musical and cultural background became part of the therapy and the sessions were shaped by the music therapist and the parents together. As a previous study has shown, parents often started to use their own voice during the therapeutic process, became more confident in this respect and aware how important their singing, humming or even speaking is for their child [24].…”

Section: Interventionmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Creative music therapy (CMT) is an individualized and family-integrating music therapy method [23][24][25]. Based on the concepts of Nordoff-Robbins' creative music therapy [26] and combined with principles of CMT used on comatose patients [27], it addresses the needs and resources of premature infants and their parents in the NICU setting [25].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During CMT, the breathing pattern, gestures, and facial expressions of the premature infant are perceived by the therapist and transformed into a musical response by humming in a lullaby style [25,28]. The parents are individually involved in the therapeutic process, e.g., by being supported to use their voice in an infant-directed and responsive way or by performing CMT during kangaroo care [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, CMT aims to address the parents' needs and to promote the parent-infant bonding process. By intuitively relating through music, parents are given the opportunity to connect and care for their infant, and the infant's needs for intimacy and closeness are met [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants and Their Parents: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Parents’ Anxiety, Stress and Depressive Symptoms and Parent–Infant Attachment

Kehl

Marca-Ghaemmaghami

Haller

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Premature birth is stressful for infants and parents and can adversely affect the parent–infant dyad. This mixed-methods pilot study evaluates whether creative music therapy (CMT) can alleviate anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms in parents and support the bonding process with their infant. Sixteen parent couples were included. Ten couples were randomly allocated to the music therapy group (MTG) and six to the control group (CG). All couples completed psychological questionnaires measuring anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as an implicit measure of parent–infant attachment at two weeks postpartum (T1), at approximate neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization halftime (T2), and two weeks after the infant had been discharged (T3). At T1 and T2, the parents additionally completed a questionnaire assessing the degree of stress they experienced at the NICU. Qualitative data were collected through a semi-structured, problem-centered interview with MTG parents at T3. The results of the quantitative analyses revealed reductions in anxiety levels from T1 to T2 (p = 0.002) as well as decreases in depressive symptoms from T2 to T3 (p = 0.022). No such changes were apparent in the CG. In fact, parental stress increased from T1 to T2 (p = 0.016). Significant increases in attachment across time were also observed within the MTG, but not in the CG. The qualitative inquiry confirmed that CMT can support the parent–infant relationship. Being in musical interaction evoked feelings of joy and relaxation in the parents and encouraged them to interact more profoundly with their infant. The results call for a more extensive powered follow-up study to further investigate CMT’s potential for parental well-being and parent–infant bonding.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants and Their Parents: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Parents’ Anxiety, Stress and Depressive Symptoms and Parent–Infant Attachment

Kehl

Marca-Ghaemmaghami

Haller

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…9. When therapeutically indicated, invite the parents to engage in song writing, a widely used music therapy method to express and validate experiences, to externalize emotions and thoughts 54 , and to intensify and personalize the parent-infant interactions in neonatal music therapy in particular 30,55,56 . Invite the parents to write about their musical experiences in their dairy (or the diary pages of the lullaby book "Wiegenlieder für die Kleinsten") and to quote their song.…”

Section: Creative Music Therapy With the Parents During Skin-to-skin mentioning

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Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Haslbeck¹,

Bassler²

2020

JoVE

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Creative music therapy for preterm infants and their parents (CMT) has emerged as a promising family-integrated early intervention involving communicative musicality to improve infant development, parental well-being, and bonding. It aims at relaxing and nurturing the infant as well as promoting safety and social interaction for the parent-infant dyad. A music therapist specially trained in CMT hums or sings in an infantdirected, improvised, lullaby style continually adjusting to the individual needs, expressions, and breathing pattern of the preterm infant. Based on the principles of family-integrated care, the family is incorporated individually in the therapeutic process, namely by delivering CMT during kangaroo care (KC) and by motivating and facilitating parental vocal interaction with their infant to strengthen the parent-infant bonding. CMT aims at relaxing, stimulating, and coregulating premature infants at a time when many other interventions are still risky and can overwhelm the vulnerable patient group. CMT may be advantageous not by educating and teaching parents, but rather by uncovering the intuitive capacities of parenting that are often overshadowed by the traumatic experience of preterm birth. However, CMT can only be provided when the infants are clinically stable. CMT with parental integration is feasible when parents are available and receptive to participate. This paper presents a detailed protocol on how to use CMT to empower preterm infants and their families.

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NICU music therapy effects on maternal mental health and preterm infant's emotional arousal

Palazzi

Meschini²,

Piccinini

2021

Infant Mental Health Journal

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In recent decades, music therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has been shown to regulate preterm infant's physiological responses and improve maternal mental health. This study investigated the effects of the music therapy intervention for the mother–preterm infant dyad (MUSIP) for maternal anxiety, postnatal depression, and stress, and preterm infants’ weight gain, length of hospitalization, heart rate (HR), and oxygen saturation (So2). A pre‐experimental design was used with 33 mother–preterm infant dyads in a Brazilian NICU: 16 dyads in the Music Therapy Group (MTG) and 17 dyads in the Control Group (CG). The MTG took part in the MUSIP, aimed at supporting maternal singing with the preterm baby. Infants’ HR and So2 were recorded at each minute from 10 min before to 10 min after sessions 1, 3, and 6. Before infants’ discharge, maternal anxiety and depression scores were lower in the MTG compared to the CG. Anxiety, depression, and stress levels decreased significantly after the intervention in the MTG. With regard to infants, HR and So2 ranges were higher during music therapy, compared to before and after sessions. MUSIP improved maternal mental health and affected preterm infants’ emotional arousal, with positive trends in decreasing HR, stabilizing So2, and reducing length of hospitalization.

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Sounding Together: Family-Centered Music Therapy as Facilitator for Parental Singing During Skin-to-Skin Contact

Cited by 20 publications

References 71 publications

Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants and Their Parents: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Parents’ Anxiety, Stress and Depressive Symptoms and Parent–Infant Attachment

Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants and Their Parents: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Parents’ Anxiety, Stress and Depressive Symptoms and Parent–Infant Attachment

Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NICU music therapy effects on maternal mental health and preterm infant's emotional arousal

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