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

Vancouver, British Columbia Canada's Jewish Home for the Aged. I
describe my style within this framework and my own sense of how to
communicate and map the processes. This is a work in progress. Though
I leave the setting to begin graduate studies at Temple University this
fall, I hope to further focus on this material at another time. In my early
days of presenting and indeed through part of my preparation for this
congress, I framed it as a developing model of practice. I am no longer
completely sure if that is an accurate way to describe it. I feel it has the
potential to develop into a model but prefer not to call it that at this time.
The congress participant will find this paper organized into the following
categories:
1.Background Information,
2.Contexts and Frameworks,
3.Salient Concepts - Therapeutic Process and
4.Musical Media and Their Application in Therapy.
Background Information
Louis Brier Home and Hospital services the needs of Jewish and non-
Jewish residents in a multi-care-level, long term care setting. A majority
of residents in the facility are Jewish but a more heterogeneous
population exists in Special Care. I began working there when the special
care unit was only two months old. Music therapy was introduced, in
part, to help mediate some of the stresses that staff, residents and families
were experiencing.
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