Filling a Need While Making Some Noise is an engaging and inspiring nuts-and-bolts guide for music therapists who are interested in working in pediatrics. Kathy Lorenzato paints a vivid picture of what it's like to work in a teaching hospital with children and families who are facing tremendous health challenges, and for whom music therapy is part of their treatment or recovery plan. Her lively case examples illustrate well the beneficial effects of music therapy on children with physical or mental illness. She offers many helpful suggestions and background information on practicing music therapy in a hospital environment, the kinds of instruments to use and how to work successfully with medical staff and how music therapists can help their patients' families to cope with the hospital experience. This book is an invaluable resource for both newly qualified and experienced music therapists, members of the medical and childcare professions and students in these fields.

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