Time in Between

Music Therapy with Adolescent Girls in a Safehouse in Kingston, Jamaica

作者

  • Lora F. Heller Music Department, Molloy College, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i2.3064

关键词:

music therapy, Jamaica, trauma, resilience, mental health, culture, adolescent girls, developmental disabilities, sex trafficking, interdisciplinary work

摘要

时间间隔:牙买加金斯敦一个安全屋里的针对女孩的音乐治疗

摘要

 Molloy学院是纽约的一所私立文科学院,由阿米蒂维儿的多米尼加姐妹会创办,与PRN(医生、居民、护士)国际救援组织以及牙买加的多米尼加姐妹会合作,组织每年两次的服务旅行,为牙买加农村和城市提供初级保健、语言病理学、精神心理健康护理和医疗/外科团队。在为期一周的旅行中,医务人员和语言病理学家分队从一个诊所搬到另一个诊所,而精神心理健康专业人员,连同助产士和精神科护士,专门为牙买加金斯敦北郊圣安德鲁石山安全家园的居民和工作人员提供服务。作为一个像自己家一样舒适的国营机构,收容了12至18岁遭受忽视或虐待、伤害、性侵犯或触犯法律的女孩。2016年10月,音乐治疗服务首次作为心理健康团队的一部分,为这些女孩提供了自我表达的出口,培养坚韧性的机会,帮助强化的社区意识,以及对她们的创伤的给予支持行反应。在过去的几年里,心理健康小组发现,女孩们能够自由地从事艺术[治疗]等创造性活动,同时音乐是她们文化和日常生活中不可或缺的一部分。因此,音乐治疗被推荐用于帮助治疗过程常规化,增加参与度,和发展治疗关系。

Author Biography

Lora F. Heller, Music Department, Molloy College, USA

I appreciate the opportunity to share my experience in music therapy! I've worked with clients and patients in a variety of settings including NICU, early childhood special education and Deaf education, pediatric medicine, pediatric hospice, child and adolescent psychiatry, and nursing homes. For the past 25 years I have supervised music therapy students from Molloy College (and other programs) in their clinical training, and I'm in my 10th year on the staff and faculty in the music department at Molloy. It was an honor to be part of the mental health team with the Molloy Mission and I hope to have another opportunity for this work. I feel strongly about advocating for music therapy and spent a few years on the New York State Task Force for Occupational Regulation. I am especially passionate about family centered work. 21 years ago I opened my own practice, Baby Fingers, servicing families and children where we focus on relationships and language development through music and sign language. I have served as an expert for parenting programs, authored sign language books for kids in addition to music therapy articles, podcasts, and textbook chapters, and have presented at conferences both regionally and nationally. Lora Heller, MS, LCAT, MT-BC. https://mybabyfingers.com / https://www.molloy.edu

Photo of author Lora F. Heller

已出版

2021-06-01

How to Cite

Heller, L. F. (2021). Time in Between: Music Therapy with Adolescent Girls in a Safehouse in Kingston, Jamaica. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i2.3064

栏目

Reflections on Practice