Music Therapy in Children’s Palliative Care: Collaborative Family and Practitioner Voices

This book places the voices of children and families supported by children’s palliative care at the centre as they articulate their own experiences of music therapy alongside music therapists to develop theory and practice in this area.

Victoria Kammin is a music therapist who specialises in paediatric palliative care from Surrey, UK. She is Director of Resonance Creative Therapy, Lecturer on the MSc Music Therapy training at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh and undertaking her PhD at the University of York with the Paediatric Palliative Care Research Group.

Julie Russell is a freelance illustrator, teacher and lived-experience practitioner from Essex, UK. She has been married for over 25 years, is mother to a teenage son, and a bereaved parent to a toddler. Julie has given motivational talks about her family’s experiences with paediatric palliative care and is a member of the Family Advisory Board at Martin House Research Centre, University of York.