Open AccessInfant-Directed Singing as a Vehicle for Regulation Rehearsal in the Medically Fragile Full-Term Infant
Author(s) -
Helen Shoemark
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v8i2.437
Subject(s) - singing , neonatal intensive care unit , psychology , term (time) , full term , music therapy , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , pregnancy , physics , management , quantum mechanics , biology , economics , genetics
A significant step in the full-term infant’s development is the achievement of self and mutual regulation. The invasive nature of care on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit can undermine the medically fragile full- term infant’s efforts to control his experiences through regulation of stimuli. During active music therapy, the therapist provides a contingent relationship in which improvised infant-directed singing serves as a vehicle for rehearsal of self and mutual regulation.