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Articles by Lucy Forrest MMus, RMT

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  Your song, my song, our song: Developing music therapy programs for a culturally diverse community in home-based paediatric palliative care

  by Lucy Forrest MMus, RMT | July 2014

  Working in home-based paediatric palliative care with children and families of diverse cultural background presents an array of considerations for the music therapist. Developing cultural awareness, sensitivity and responsiveness is paramount in the provision of culturally appropriate palliative care music therapy services. This paper presents a preliminary discussion of cultural considerations in providing paediatric palliative care music therapy services in home-based settings for children...

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  Addressing issues of ethnicity and identity in palliative care through music therapy practice

  by Lucy Forrest MMus, RMT | July 2000

  In preparing for their death, patients with terminal illnesses may express a need to explore and confirm their identity in terms of their familial, social, cultural and ethnic heritage. This article examines the mechanisms which underlie the construction of individual and basic group identity, the latter of which is also referred to as ethnicity. The maintenance and evolution of identity over time and across different places is explored, and the use of music as a means to construct, express and...