Ever consider music therapy as a way for your child to cope? Melina Roberts wrote about her experience as a music therapy instructor for bereaved children, and the great benefit it brings.
She noticed that children used music therapy sessions for:
- diversion and fun – to escape the grief that had impacted their lives and their homes
- self expression – to explore and express what thoughts and feelings had been evoked by grief
- an opportunity to ask questions – particularly questions about grief that the children couldn’t ask of their Mom or Dad for fear of making them cry
- an opportunity to remember their loved one – to express memories about their deceased loved ones
- an opportunity to speak about being excluded from bereavement activities – for example, when two children, a brother and sister, were not allowed to attend their grandmother’s funeral
- an opportunity to explore and express spiritual beliefs – opportunities to make music, sing and draw about what happens to loved ones after they die
- an opportunity to talk about the impact of grief – opportunities to highlight the past and the present and how grief had caused changes in their lives.
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