Resounding attachment: Cancer inpatients' song lyrics for their children in music therapy

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1149-1157

  O'Callaghan, Clare ^a,b   O'Brien, Emma ^c   Magill, Lucanne ^d   Ballinger, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Music therapy; Oncology; Parent child connectedness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DYING; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOPE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOVE; MALE; METASTASIS; MUSIC THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 68949218431     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-008-0555-5     Document Type: Article

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