Description
This book provides an overview of the needs of terminally ill children, adolescents, and their families throughout the continuum of palliative care and bereavement. Including how music therapy interventions play vital roles in meeting the multifaceted care plan needs of pediatric palliative care patients and their families in both the acute care hospital and home care hospice settings. The contributors to this text have been deeply moved by the children, adolescents and their families they have met along their professional journey. This awe-inspiring work with dying children can be taxing for the music therapist, this book also will discuss ways to safeguard against compassion fatigue and burnout.
