Grief and Loss Music Therapy Institute
The Center for Music Therapy in End of Life Care is extending the deadline for registration for the upcoming Grief & Loss Music Therapy Institute, a 4-day intensive class that earns participants 50 Specialty CMTEs!
Feel free to check out www.hospicemusictherapy.org for more details! A registration form is attached to this email for your convenience. Registration is open until August 3!
Grief
& Loss Music Therapy Institute August 7-10, 2008 at Holy Cross Hospital in
Chicago, IL
This course provides music therapists with in-depth training of the needs of
grieving children and adults. The course offers advanced techniques and affords
participants opportunities to practice skills in a clinical setting.
Participants earn 50 Specialty CMTEs.
Registration Fee: $600 includes lunches and course materials
This is one of the three courses required to earn the Hospice & Palliative Care Music Therapy Certificate (HPMT).
Music
therapists (MT-BC) who complete the Centers' coursework will earn the Hospice &
Palliative Care Music Therapy Certificate (HPMT). Required courses include:
~Hospice & Palliative Care Music Therapy Institute
~Grief & Loss Music Therapy Institute
~Death & Dying Course or Counseling Skills Course
About the Instructors:
Russell Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC is the Executive Director of Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care in Chicago, IL, and the Founder of the Centers for Music Therapy in End of Life Care. His research, advocacy, and consultation have resulted in the development of first-time music therapy programs in hospices throughout the nation, thereby creating many new music therapy positions. He is the author of the text, Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapy: A Guide to Program Development and Clinical Care, and his research has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals. Dr. Hilliard has provided keynote addresses for healthcare conferences and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences world wide.
Jenna Justice, MM, HPMT, MT-BC is the Director of Supportive Care at Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care in Chicago, IL overseeing Social Workers, Bereavement Counselors, Music Therapists, Chaplains, and Volunteers. She is the former Music Therapy Manager at Hospice of Palm Beach County and the former Music Therapy Coordinator at Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, Florida. She has a wide range of experiences providing presentations and clinical, as well as administrative supervision. Jenna's expertise includes adult bereavement music therapy groups, the use of music to provide spiritual care, and the introduction of hospice music therapy in both musical and non-musical ways to hospice patients.
Schedule:
Thursday,
August 7: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
*includes four, 15-minute breaks and a working lunch
Friday,
August 8: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
*includes four, 15-minute breaks and a working lunch
Saturday,
August 9: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
*includes four, 15-minute breaks and a working lunch
Sunday,
August 10: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
*includes three, 15-minute breaks and a working lunch
Homework
assignment: There is a post-course homework assignment that is to be emailed to
the instructor. On average, this assignment takes 4 hours to complete.
Location: Holy Cross Hospital; 2701 W. 68th Street; Chicago, IL
60629
Airport: The closest and most convenient airport to Holy Cross
Hospital is Midway Airport, but trains run from O'Hare to Midway regularly as
well.
Suggested Accommodations: A block of rooms has been reserved at
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott at Chicago Midway Airport at $149/night plus
taxes; 6630 South Cicero Avenue; Bedford Park, IL(708)594-0090 . Mention the
promo code MUSIC THERAPY for your discounted room rate.
The Midway Hotel Center is just 2 blocks from Midway Airport and 2 miles from
Holy Cross Hospital. The Center is the home of several hotel chains including
Marriott and Holiday Inn, among others. Visit
www.midwayhotelcenter.com or call 888-MID-INNS for reservations. If a large
group stays at one hotel, it may be possible to arrange a shuttle from the hotel
center to the hospital; otherwise, a taxi cab is suggested for transport to/from
the hospital and hotels.
To register or for more information, contact Shelby Smith at schleb82@hotmail.com or (847)813-5008.
The Grief and Loss Music Therapy Institute is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 50 CMTEs, Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. Credits awarded by CBMT are accepted by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). The Center for Music Therapy in End-of-Life Care, #P-092 maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.
Gro Trondalen
PhD, RMT, AMI Fellow
Associate Professor in Music Therapy
Norwegian Academy Music in Oslo
Tuesday, August 5th 2008 at 1 PM
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (Beth Israel Medical Center) 2nd
floor Auditorium
FREE-first come, first serve
RSVP Sherry Williams
Shwillia@chpnet.org or 212 420-2704
This presentation addresses “significant moments” in individual music therapy for a young man and a young woman suffering from Anorexia Nervosa. The therapeutic approach includes musical improvisations and verbal exchange. “Self-listening” and “expressive music therapy” are addressed in an outpatient setting. The empirical data stems from a qualitative research study based on a phenomenological inspired procedure for data analysis including musical and interpersonal data. The theoretical approach is based on a resource oriented psychodynamic tradition, rooted in infant research and dynamic system theory.
Eating disorder pathology generally reflects insufficient reliable self-soothing, tension and mood regulation. The body is used as en external, concrete tool for promoting internal life (“embodiment”).
In the presentation, Trondalen suggest “significant moments” in the relating experience through music to be sequences of regulation, which may support personal self-agency. Such an autonomy process may strengthen the ability to control and regulate inner and outer tension. Hence, an enhanced self-control through regulation may provide for a softening and exploration of new ways of relating for persons suffering from anorexia, as opposed to previous rigid and prefixed strategies of behaving.
Gro Trondalen, PhD, RMT, Fellow of AMI is Associate Professor in Music Therapy at The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She is a former co-ordinator of the Ph.D. program in Music and the Music Therapy Training (MA) in Oslo, in addition to Vice-President of the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC). She is a qualified Music Therapist and Special Education Teacher and holds a specialisation in The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM). Trondalen has been working in the field of child welfare and adult mental health for 20 years, and holds a private practice in BMGIM. Research focus has been on clinical work linked to philosophical and theoretical perspectives. She is currently serving at the Board of The International Doctoral Programme in Music Therapy at Aalborg University and at the Board of The Ph.D. Programme in Music at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Trondalen is associate editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
Speechless yet Communicative: Communication and Emotional Expression Through Song in Girls with Rett Syndrome
Cochavit
Elefant PhD, CMT
Associate
Professor in Music Therapy
University of Bergen Grieg Academy
Tuesday, August 12th 2008 at 1 PM
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (Beth Israel Medical Center) 2nd
floor Auditorium
FREE-first come, first serve
RSVP Sherry Williams
Shwillia@chpnet.org or 212 420-2704
Individuals with Rett Syndrome are often speechless. Unveiling their wishes and desires presents the music therapist with unique challenges. In many cases, unmasking the hidden skills of these children necessitates the use of alternative motivational and expressive strategies developed through the arts. Music therapy has been used as means to enhance the emotional, educational and functional abilities of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
This presentation will highlight the challenges in communication presented by children with Rett syndrome. Dr. Elefant will share the results of a single case, multiple baseline design research intervention, intended to enhance communication, choice-making, learning, and song preference of children with Rett syndrome. Numerous video case examples will be shared.
Cochavit Elefant is an Associate Professor of Music Therapy at the University of Bergen – Grieg academy, Bergen, Norway. She is a member of the International Collaborative Music Therapy Research Project Team. Cochavit has worked with individuals with Rett syndrome for the past 15 years and received an award for her research in this field by the International Association of Rett Syndrome. For many years Cochavit has integrated special needs children with regular children in the school system both in the USA and in Israel. This is the topic of her current research study.