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Got the feeling that adding music to clinical situations could improve children's lives?

Explore new paths with Dr. Kern an experienced music therapist and researcher and develop cutting-edge interventions.

Should you be interested in the Anouk Music Listening Program or other innovative projects, please contact me.














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NEW MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES

STAFF TRAINING


Maximize Benefits and Outcomes. Expand Skills and Competencies.

Who?

  1. •Foundations, Non-Profit Organizations, Hospitals, Sponsors

  2. •Early Childhood Personnel, Healthcare Professionals, Others


What?

  1. •Developing new music related projects

  2. •Customizing strategies, methods, and techniques

  3. •Training and staff development components


Where?

  1. •At your site and/or online support during the year


Current Project...





The Anouk Music Listening Program offers children and teenagers the opportunity to listen to a specifically developed music listening program on iPods before, during, and after medical treatments.


The Program is based on music therapy research, clinical expertise, and patients’ preferences. Health care professionals trained in identifying patients’ music preferences (according to age, cultural background, musical experiences, and mood) assist patients in creating their personalized playlist (that addresses treatment specific intentions), and decide together when it is the best time to have the headphones on.


Listening to music may enrich the hospital stay of children and teenagers by providing the opportunity to

  1. ✴     experience a sense of comfort and enjoyment in a hospital    

        environment

  1. ✴     relax and stay calm while undergoing medical treatments

  2. ✴     shift the perception of pain or other physical discomfort, and

        maybe smile.


The Anouk Foundation is proud to work together with Dr. Petra Kern in offering this new program and its benefits on a broad range to hospitals. ~ Vanessa von Richter, Anouk Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.




This project has been piloted with pediatric healthcare professionals and dialysis patients at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland and won the 2010 FSMO “Innovative Project” price.