Open AccessThe creation of a group including a Psycho-Music Therapy team (EPMt) within the SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo hospital's Department of Mental Health
Author(s) -
A. Pacchioni,
P. Santi,
M. Zingarelli
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
working paper of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2279-9761
DOI - 10.4081/wpph.2021.9431
Subject(s) - music therapy , internship , active listening , psychology , mental health , psychological intervention , medical education , psychotherapist , medicine , nursing , psychiatry
The music therapist is a musician able to use music and its elements in an individual or within a group relationship, through a well-defined process in order to promote favorable changes in quality of life (QoL) among people with different problems. In February 2019, within the main building of the SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo hospital, a specific area was made available to this group for their meetings. This room was renamed maternal womb and this space was chosen because neutral, not identified as a psychiatric area. We have carried out laboratory interventions of music teaching for patients and hospital staff that have simultaneously become an opportunity for the student internship of the three-year teaching course in music therapy of the Vivaldi Conservatory of Alessandria. These first activities have made it possible to share and deepen the knowledge of languages between musicians/music therapists and health professionals, thus constituting a Psycho-Music Therapy team (EPMt) watchful and attentive to mutual listening targeted towards the common aim of understanding and offering, to those who have a complexity of experiences related to psychological discomfort, alternative methods of communication. This contribution will develop and integrate the points of view of a music therapist, a psychiatrist and a nurse.