Theoretical Interfaces in the Acute Paediatric Context: A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of the Application of Infant-Directed Singing

O’Gorman, Shannon

doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2006.60.3.271

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“…These late preterm and full‐term infants are more socially mature, with correspondingly more demanding social needs than premature infants (Raju, Higgins, Stark, & Leveno, 2006). Combined with evidence that has supported the efficacy of live infant‐contingent singing for development of positive therapist–infant interactions (Shoemark, 1999), this strongly suggests that improvised infant‐contingent singing, based on such infant‐inclusive singing styles as lullaby and playsong1 (Nakata & Trehub, 2004; O'Gorman, 2006; Shoemark, 1999, 2006), is highly appropriate and could be very beneficial for this population because it attends to the infants' social needs in ways that music medicine cannot. The therapist's live singing with an infant client is a mutually determined experience in which the therapist's musical creation authentically represents the infant while maintaining an intention to both support and encourage the safe exploration of new experience (Shoemark, 2006).…”

Section: Music For Hospitalized Infantsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Music therapy with hospitalized infants—the art and science of communicative musicality

Malloch

Shoemark

Črnčec

et al. 2012

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Infants seek contingent, companionable interactions with others. Infants in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), while receiving care that optimizes their chances of survival, often do not have the kind of interactions that are optimal for their social development. Live music therapy (MT) with infants is an intervention that aims for contingent, social interaction between therapist and infant. This study, with a limited numbers of infants, examined the effectiveness of an MT intervention in the NICU at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. Two groups of late pre-term and full-term infants were recruited to the study; one was given MT and the other was not. A healthy group of infants not given MT served as an additional control. The effect of MT was indexed using two measures reflecting infant social engagement: the Neurobehavioral Assessment of the Preterm Infant (NAPI) and the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB). Results suggest that the MT intervention used at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne supports infants' neurobehavioral development. In particular, hospitalized infants who received MT were better able to maintain self-regulation during social interaction with an adult, were less irritable and cried less, and were more positive in their response to adult handling, when compared with infants who did not receive the intervention. These are important prerequisites for social interaction and development. Further and larger scale research using MT with this population is indicated.

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Section: Music For Hospitalized Infantsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Music therapy with hospitalized infants—the art and science of communicative musicality

Malloch

Shoemark

Črnčec

et al. 2012

Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…Bebês desejam ser compreendidos, amados e, conforme indicam as pesquisas, estão atentos a coerência (O'Gorman, 2006) e facilmente detectam genuinidade (ou uma fachada) na voz de sua mãe (Conrad, Walsh, Allen, & Tsang, 2011). Levitin (2009) Parece que a mãe, ao cantar para seu bebê, comunica certo grau de abertura, bem como afeto, que estão enraizados nos seus sons, e estes são percebidos pelo bebê que está equipado com um "olho emocional".…”

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Investigating Experience of Mothers Singing to Their Infants: In Search of Meanings

Brisola

Cury

2018

psicolestud

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Elizabeth Brown Vallim Brisola 2 3 , Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001- Vera Engler Cury², Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000- 0003-2721-3367 RESUMO. Cantar para bebês tem sido parte da vida de mães desde os tempos antigos e em diferentes culturas. O estudo do cantar das mães para seus bebês tende a enfocar como e por que as canções são facilitadoras da comunicação mãe -bebê, identificando seus efeitos e benefícios para a mãe e para o bebê. No entanto, sabe -se pouco a respeito da experiência subjetiva das mães ao cantarem. Esta pesquisa fenomenológica pretende contribuir para esse corpo de conhecimento por meio de uma compreensão psicológica, em busca de significados, a partir da psicologia humanista. Foram realizados encontros dialógicos individuais com 13 mães primíparas, brasileiras e norte-americanas, com filhos de até 18 meses. Narrativas compreensivas baseadas nesses encontros foram redigidas e analisadas pela pesquisadora e uma narrativa síntese foi construída revelando os elementos estruturais da experiência de cantar das mães. Os elementos significativos que emergiram foram: um modo especial de se comunicarem com o filho, possibilitando a construção de um vínculo emocional, uma forma de melhor conhecer seu bebê, um modo de reconhecerem a si mesmas na condição de mães, uma maneira interessante de compartilhar valores pessoais e costumes familiares e um modo criativo de se expressarem. Todos estes significados possibilitam o desenvolvimento do potencial para crescimento pessoal das mães. Este artigo também pretende apresentar uma breve discussão dos resultados no contexto contemporâneo da ciência psicológica e sugere futuros caminhos de pesquisa.Palavras-chave: Psicologia fenomenológica; relações mãe-criança; canto.ABSTRACT. Singing to infants has been a part of mothers' lives across the ages and in different cultures. The study of mothers singing to infants tends to focus on how and why songs facilitate mother-infant communication, identifying its effects and benefits for mother and infant. Little is known, however, about the mothers' subjective lived experience of singing. The present phenomenological study aims to contribute to this body of knowledge through a psychological comprehension, in search of meanings, through a Humanistic lens. Thirteen individual dialogical encounters were conducted with Brazilian and American fist-time mothers with infants up to 18 months old. Comprehensive narratives based on those individual encounters were written and analyzed by the researcher, and a synthesis narrative was built revealing the structural

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“…-parent of a two-year-old child with Down syndrome Everyday parent-child musical experiences, like musical games and lullabies, are common in early childhood (Politimou et al, 2018). A growing body of research suggests that parent-child musical interactions may support dyadic attachment by promoting joint attention and emotional engagement (Creighton et al, 2013;de l'Etoile, 2006;O'Gorman, 2006;Perkins et al, 2018;Persico et al, 2017). High parent-child attachment, which includes the emotions and thoughts a parent has about their child and their relationship (i.e., parents' affective attachment to their child [Condon & Corkindale, 1998]), is important for children's social-emotional development (Belsky & Fearon, 2002) and for parents' and children's well-being (de Cock et al, 2016;Johnson, 2013).…”

Section: Developmental Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey of the Home Music Environment of Children with Various Developmental Profiles

Steinberg¹,

Cm²,

Liu³

et al. 2020

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Families with young children with and without developmental disabilities often engage in musical experiences in the home. These parent-child musical activities are associated with positive outcomes for children and parents and may be a context to help foster strong parent-child relationships. However, little is known about how musical experiences differ across diagnostic groups or their relevance to parent-child attachment. Using an online questionnaire, the current study examined musical experiences and their relationship with parent-child attachment for 340 families with young children with typical and atypical development. Musical experiences were common in all diagnostic groups. Diagnostic groups differed in active musical engagement, potentially relating to the differing phenotypes of various developmental disabilities. Parent-child music engagement was associated with parent-child attachment, even when controlling for relevant variables. Promoting musical experiences may be an accessible way to support the parent-child relationship across diagnostic groups with implications for informal music engagement and parent-child therapy.

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Theoretical Interfaces in the Acute Paediatric Context: A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of the Application of Infant-Directed Singing

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Music therapy with hospitalized infants—the art and science of communicative musicality

Music therapy with hospitalized infants—the art and science of communicative musicality

Investigating Experience of Mothers Singing to Their Infants: In Search of Meanings

Survey of the Home Music Environment of Children with Various Developmental Profiles

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