Music therapy: meeting the psychosocial needs of hospitalized children.
Music therapy offers a unique approach for reducing the stresses of hospitalization for children. By meeting important psychosocial needs, music therapy lessens anxiety, aids adaptation and contributes to making the hospital experience a more positive one. The use of music therapy is described and illustrated with three patients all of whom underwent painful and prolonged hospitalization with immobilization and severe movement restriction.
D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D009147:Music Therapy; D009519:New York City