Music of the Soul: Composing Life Out of Loss

by Berger,Joy S.

• ISBN13: 9780415954815
• ISBN10: 0415954819
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-09-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Hospice Institute, Louisville, KY. Introduces principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling, with end goal of empowering the grieving person. Includes numerous examples and case studies. For mental health practitioners. Softcover.

Author Biography

Joy S. Berger, DMA, BCC, MT-BC, is Director for the Hospice Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, of the Alliance of Community Hospices

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
Chapter 1 Music of the Soul — Composing Life Out of Loss	1	(16)
It's About Life	2	(4)
Music of the Soul: Terminology and Metaphors	6	(3)
Readers' Personal Applications	9	(5)
Composing Life in the Midst of Loss	14	(3)
Chapter 2 Rhythms of Body and Soul	17	(26)
Body Rhythms	18	(1)
Soul Rhythms	19	(1)
Pausing and Pacing and Pushing On	20	(2)
Signals for Action or Rest	22	(4)
Music for Pain Relief: Body and Soul	26	(3)
Rhythms of the Soul for Being in and Moving through Loss	29	(3)
Music for Grief's Seasons of the Soul	32	(9)
There Is a Time	41	(2)
Chapter 3 Themes and Counterthemes of Life Stories	43	(18)
Life Stories Stirred by Sounds	45	(2)
Case Study: "Getting to Know You" When Words Fail	47	(2)
Themes and Counterthemes	49	(4)
Diminishing Dementia: Relating with Memories through Music	53	(6)
Your Life Story's Tunes and Tales	59	(2)
Chapter 4 Harmonies and Dissonances of Healing	61	(18)
Life's Harmonic Progressions	62	(5)
Life's Dissonant Changes	67	(3)
Healing Grief: Hearing Its Dissonances and Harmonies	70	(6)
Harmonies and Dissonances of Healing: Coda or Commencement	76	(3)
Chapter 5 Styles of Doing and Being	79	(14)
Know Your Styles for Doing Life	81	(3)
Music as a Catalyst for Being in Loss More Fully	84	(7)
Music Moment: A Doing and Being Commemoration	91	(2)
Chapter 6 Expressions of Self and Community	93	(26)
Ricky's Rhyme for This Time	94	(2)
Music's Expressive Powers	96	(4)
Personal Expressions: Children and Teens	100	(9)
Community Expressions	109	(5)
Global Expressions	114	(3)
Ode to Expressions of the Soul	117	(2)
Chapter 7 The Final Cadence	119	(22)
Music of the Soul at Life's End	120	(1)
Final Cadence Endings	120	(2)
More Final Cadences	122	(3)
Music with the Dying	125	(4)
CORE Principles: Care, Ownership, Respect, Empowerment	129	(2)
Physical, Psychosocial, and Spiritual Care	131	(1)
The Music Therapist with the Patient and Family	132	(4)
Final Moments	136	(5)
Chapter 8 Composing Life Out of Loss	141	(22)
Redefining Self by "Relating" with the Loss	143	(2)
Music Interventions at Different Seasons of the Soul	145	(2)
Music's Keys to Our "Secret Gardens"	147	(1)
Life's Endings and Beginnings — Life's Mourning and Morning	148	(6)
Music of Morning	154	(6)
Music of the Soul for Composing Life Out of Loss	160	(3)
Appendix A Through the Ages: A Timeline of Western Grief Music	163	(4)
Appendix B My Music Menu	167	(2)
Appendix C Keyboard Quality of Life: "Highs" and "Lows"	169	(2)
Appendix D My Do-Be-Do-Be's	171	(2)
Appendix E CORE Principles (Being) and HEALing Techniques (Doing)	173	(4)
CORE Principles: Care, Ownership, Respect, Empowerment	173	(2)
HEALing Techniques: Hear, Explore, Affirm, Learn	175	(2)
Teaching Guides	177	(48)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 1. Music of the Soul: Creating Life Out of Loss	179	(6)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 2. Rhythms of Body and Soul	185	(6)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 3. Themes and Counterthemes of Life Stories	191	(6)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 4. Harmonies and Dissonances of Healing	197	(6)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 5. Styles of Doing and Being	203	(6)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 6. Expressions of Self and Community	209	(4)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 7. The Final Cadence	213	(6)
Teaching Guides for Chapter 8. Composing Life Out of Loss	219	(6)
Notes	225	(2)
Books and Articles	227	(8)
Scores, Recordings, and Videos	235	(4)
Websites	239	(4)
Index	243