Events
Music Therapy in Medicine: From Life to Death with Joanne Loewy
Feb 27 2010 10:00AM - Feb 28 2010 5:00PM
Event Details
Saturday and Sunday
February 27 and 28
10 am-5:30 pm
CIIS Main Building
$235
13 CEUs (MFT, LCSW, RN)
About the Workshop
Music and sound are part of our life-world, from prebirth in the womb through the passage to death. Before being born we synchronize the coordination of our breathing and heartbeat to the sound environment of the womb. As we prepare for death, our sound environment becomes filled with memories and meaningful contexts. Music and music therapy provide important nurturing, release, integration, and collaboration in ease and dis-ease. Music therapy has important implications for prevention and treatment of disease and can enhance wellness and spirituality, especially in a psychotherapeutic context. This course will teach you how to use music as an agent of healing and transformation. You will learn how to create live music therapy practices and explore music therapy as it is used clinically in urban hospitals and schools, for specific disease applications, trauma, and end-of-life care.
About the Presenter
Joanne Loewy has a doctor of arts degree and is both a Music Therapist-Board Certified and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. She is the director of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan and is a faculty member of the Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy master's program in Music Therapy at Drexel University. Loewy has conducted research in sedation, pain, and asthma and has served on the editorial boards of Journal for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Journal of Music Therapy, and Music Therapy Perspectives. She has authored articles and edited books on music therapy and consulted at hospitals in the U.S. and abroad.
This course is also available for one unit of academic credit to CIIS students.
