Inpatient Child Psychiatry
Music therapy in Child Psychiatry uses music to work on nonmusical social, cognitive, physical, emotional, behavioral, and communication goals. Music therapy may be used to:

• Improve decision-making skills
• Improve appropriate socialization skills
• Increase appropriate expression of feelings
• Provide opportunities for choice and control
• Improve and enhance appropriate coping skills
• Improve listening and academic skills

Group services are currently offered to children and adolescent patients. Individualized care is provided on a referral basis.

For more information, contact: Abbey Dvorak

Inpatient Medical Pediatric Services
Group services are currently offered to toddlers and school-aged patients. Individualized services are provided by referral to patients experiencing extended or repeated hospitalization. Individual music therapy may be particularly beneficial to children experiencing social isolation, behavioral resistance to medical routine/procedures, developmental delay and fear, anger, or depression.

To address common goals with children, music therapy interventions may:

• Encourage communication and expression of feelings
• Improve self-esteem
• Provide opportunity for choice and control
• Provide opportunity for social interaction
• Encourage use of motor skills
• Reinforce developmental skills
• Provide normalization

For more information, contact: Kirsten Nelson

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
The NICU encourages the use of safe sound stimulation for babies' individual and developmental needs. Individualized services may be beneficial for infants experiencing extended hospitalization, limited family availability, or developmental delay. Services also include parent education and support.

• Support the sensory system development of the premature infant
• Increase developmental skills in the areas of cognitive, motor, language, and emotional development of the infant
• Provide opportunities for parent and infant interactions

For more information, contact Kim Hawkins