Music Therapy and Child Welfare

Rebecca Fairchild is a registered music therapist working at The Sexual Assault and Family Violence Centre in regional Victoria, Australia. Her research and practice involves collaborating with children and young people and creating a space for their voices to be heard and responded to. Rebecca’s doctoral research was a participatory and arts-based project exploring children’s resources in the context of family violence and homelessness through collaborative song writing.

Professor Susan Hadley, Ph.D., MT-BC, is director of the music therapy program at Slippery Rock University and a board certified music therapis and co-editor-in-chief of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy.