How is creative music therapy with preterm infants and parents done in clinical practice?

In this video article, Friederike Haslbeck and Dirk Bassler illustrate how music therapy for preterm infants is done in the neonatology department of the University Hospital Zürich in Switzerland. The article and the related video in the Journal of Visualized Experiments JOVE includes facts, practical insights and details on

Goals
Methods and techniques with infants and parents for relaxation, stabilization, stimulation and development
Empowerment of the parents
Supporting parent-infant-bonding
Documentation
Interdisciplinary work
Follow-up

Über den Autor: Friederike Haslbeck

Klinische Musiktherapeutin, Musikerin, Mutter zweier Kinder, arbeitet als Postdoktorandin wissenschaftlich am Universitätsspital Zürich in der Klinik für Neonatologie, Dozentin an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste sowie am Freien Musikzentrum in München. Interessen: Musiktherapie mit Frühgeborenen und Eltern, Violine, Yoga, Rennvelo, Familie, VW-Bus-Reisen