Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

Table 50
both music therapy and palliative/hospice care are relatively new fields
may explain why many music therapy jobs in palliative care tended to be
new and part-time. Another regional difference was that ∫ of the British
music therapists worked with children, compared to 15% of the overall
sample.
COMPARISONS OF TIME
WORKED
Satisfaction
The following two questions attempted to look at satisfaction level. What
had originally attracted people to this work and had their expectations
been met? The following themes (in decreasing frequency) emerged:
Q: What originally attracted you to working with this population?
1. Opportunity arose: “…job opening, was part of the job, by chance.”
2. Depth/intimacy/meaning of work: “potential for sharing moments of
profound intimacy”
BRIT
n=14
CAN
n=13
MEAN
n=78
0-5 yrs 93% 31% 41%
6-10 yrs 0% 38% 35%
10+ yrs 7% 31% 24%
1-11 hrs 64% 15% 49%
12-23 hrs 7% 46% 22%
24+ hrs 29% 38% 29%
3. Power of music: “a quiet determination that music had a role to play
in a dying person’s life and is transcendent”
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