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CHILDREN

Health Services

CHILDREN

Watch Reuben, a 4 year old with complex health needs, relaxing with his MTW music therapist, Melody, and the Acorns Hospice outreach team. Reuben is often very tense so Melody plays music to help him to feel comfortable and to create opportunities for fun in the session.

Music therapy can promote healing and be transformational for children at a time when it is challenging for them to express themselves verbally. Working with the multi-disciplinary team, music therapists can enable a child to begin processing their issues through musical play and interactions, improvised song lyrics and sharing music with their family and siblings.

Music therapy can:

Support pain management
Improve muscle flexibility and coordination
Assist in developing social and communication skills, including speech
Have a calming and relaxing effect
Encourage movement, muscle flexibility and coordination
Alleviate depression
Help the child to process loss
Enable the child to communicate difficult feelings or emotions
Provide the experience of exploring leading, following and sharing through music-making
Offer moments of control and leading at a time when they or their families may feel disempowered

MTW music therapists can work with children and their families in:

Hospitals
Hospices
Healthcare centre
Nurseries

The sessions can involve live music-making with instruments, song-writing, creating CDs, legacy music or listening to favourite pieces.

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

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