Music Therapy and Parent-Infant Programmes

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Edwards ◽  
Vicky Abad
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Infant Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Primary Care Giver ◽  
The Relationship

Parent-infant work in music therapy provides the opportunity for the existing musicality of the infant-care giver pair to be accessed and enhanced. Music therapy is provided to support and enhance the skills of the dyad thus improving the relational strengths where a difficulty or impairment of satisfying contact in the relationship has occurred. The approaches developed in parent infant music therapy group and individual work have been informed primarily from an understanding of the importance of an infant achieving secure attachment with a primary care giver as the basis of ongoing lifelong mental health. This chapter provides an overview of practice in parent-infant music therapy programmes, including considerations for starting groups. Additionally, the growing literature in this field is presented and discussed.

Adult children and parental care-giving: making sense of participation patterns among siblings

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANU M. LEINONEN
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Sibling Relations ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Primary Care Giver

ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to analyse 20 Finnish working carers' perceptions of their sibling relations and the sharing of the responsibility for parental care. The main focus is on the interviewees' rationales for the participation or non-participation of their siblings in the parents' care. Almost all the interviewed carers stated that the division of care responsibilities is unequal and that they are the primary carers, but the majority did not convey any clear intention to try to persuade their siblings to increase their participation in parental care. In many cases, the siblings were described either as entirely absent or as providing occasional backup, but some interviewees reported that caring for the parent(s) was shared with their other siblings. Consequently, three participation patterns were identified: ‘absence’, ‘backup’ and ‘togetherness’. All the interviewees offered rationales for the unequal division of care tasks and responsibilities among the siblings. The discussion focuses on these rationales and their variations by participation patterns, and considers the similarity of the findings to those from previous American and British studies. The study concludes that social-care services should take the primary carer's siblings into consideration, although not always as a ‘resource’. It should not be taken for granted or assumed that the primary care-giver receives help from her or his siblings, even if their relationship is otherwise close and unproblematic.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Social Risks and the Mental Health of School-Age Children in Primary Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea E. Spencer ◽  
Tithi D. Baul ◽  
Jennifer Sikov ◽  
William G. Adams ◽  
Yorghos Tripodis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Relationship

Pastoral Care in an Interim Setting

2003 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Fred D. McGehee
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Primary Care Giver

Pastoral care—caregiving—is probably the most important of all the ministries of a pastor. Every pastor knows the vital importance of care provided in times of crisis, serious illness or injury, and death. Such care, according to McGehee, is even more crucial in the interim situation. In addition to crisis ministry, the interim pastor is the primary care giver in the ordinary situations of ministry. He or she is to be the encourager, the enabler, the empowerer for the congregation.

scholarly journals Association between a national primary care pay-for-performance scheme and suicide rates in England: spatial cohort study

2018 ◽  
Vol 213 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-608
Author(s):  
Christos Grigoroglou ◽  
Luke Munford ◽  
Roger T. Webb ◽  
Nav Kapur ◽  
Tim Doran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Pay For Performance ◽  
Social Fragmentation ◽  
Practice Performance ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundPay-for-performance policies aim to improve population health by incentivising improvements in quality of care.AimsTo assess the relationship between general practice performance on severe mental illness (SMI) and depression indicators under a national incentivisation scheme and suicide risk in England for the period 2006–2014.MethodLongitudinal spatial analysis for 32 844 small-area geographical units (lower super output areas, LSOAs), using population-structure adjusted numbers of suicide as the outcome variable. Negative binomial models were fitted to investigate the relationship between spatially estimated recorded quality of care and suicide risk at the LSOA level. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were adjusted for deprivation, social fragmentation, prevalence of depression and SMI as well as other 2011 Census variables.ResultsNo association was found between practice performance on the mental health indicators and suicide incidence in practice localities (IRR=1.000, 95% CI 0.998–1.002). IRRs indicated elevated suicide risks linked with area-level social fragmentation (1.030; 95% CI 1.027–1.034), deprivation (1.013, 95% CI 1.012–1.014) and rurality (1.059, 95% CI 1.027–1.092).ConclusionsPrimary care has an important role to play in suicide prevention, but we did not observe a link between practices' higher reported quality of care on incentivised mental health activities and lower suicide rates in the local population. It is likely that effective suicide prevention needs a more concerted, multiagency approach. Better training in suicide prevention for general practitioners is also essential. These findings pertain to the UK but have relevance to other countries considering similar programmes.Declaration of interestNone.

scholarly journals Therapy as Empowerment: Clinical and Political Implications of Empowerment Philosophy in Mental Health Practises of Music Therapy

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Rolvsjord
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this article the clinical and political implications of empowerment philosophy are elaborated with music therapy practices in mental health services as the point of departure. The concept and the philosophy of empowerment are discussed through a review of literature from community psychology, sociology and feminist psychology. Empowerment is connected to a resource-oriented perspective on music therapy that implies a focus upon the client's strengths and potentials and emphasizes the importance of collaboration and equality in the relationship between therapist and client.

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