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September
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Blogs
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August
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Song-Aid Kit
By Danielle Angeloni, MusicWorx Intern Who would have thought that out from the depths of my childhood closet, analyzing Green Day song lyrics, would grow a passion great enough to inspire a career in music therapy? Swimming in teenage angst, I knew two things for...
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August
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In Blogs by Jessica Blaisus
Music Therapist? Or Glorified Performer?
By Becky Bressan, MusicWorx Intern When I tell someone that I work in the field of music therapy, one of the most exciting things that can happen to me is that person’s eyes lighting up in recognition. You know, that look that says “Ah yes!...
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August
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How to Rock DIR®Floortime™ – Anywhere
By Audrey Weatherstone, MusicWorx Intern I am fortunate to have a music therapy internship with a wide variety of populations and settings. Over the past several months, I have worked with pediatrics, older adults and hospice, mental health groups with adolescents, children with developmental disabilities,...
05
August
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Code Lavender
By Danielle Angeloni, MusicWorx Intern As I was running out the door to the cafe I’m at now, I placed my laptop into my backpack right next to Francoise Mathieu’s Compassion Fatigue Workbook. I haven’t taken the book out of my backpack for about a...
04
August
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A Musical Crash Course in Development
Resources for the Families of Post-Hospitalized Children By Anne Delleman, MusicWorx Intern I have always been amazed by what children are able to learn within their first five years. To go from an eight pound infant that can’t see color or lift their head to...
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July
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Research: It Works, But Does It Function?
By Taylorlyn Mehnert, MusicWorx Intern When I started working in a children’s hospital for the first time, I had several conversations with my supervisor about hurdles to providing quality care in this environment. The hurdle that stuck out to me the most was that there...
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June
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In Blogs by Jessica Blaisus
The Inevitability of Sweating the “Big Stuff”
By Danielle Angeloni, MusicWorx Intern You may have heard of or read the infamous book “don’t sweat the small stuff” by Richard Carlson PhD. I had the book introduced to me as a teenager and have often turned to it in times of crisis. Over...
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May
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In Blogs by Jessica Blaisus
If You Have Implicit Bias and You Know It… Clap Your Hands
By Taylorlyn Mehnert, MusicWorx Intern “A man and his son are in a terrible accident and are rushed to the hospital in critical care. The doctor looks at the boy and exclaims "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son!" How could this be?”...
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April
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