Feeling understood: a melody of human becoming
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Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Published on: January 7, 2020
1Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
This phenomenological-hermeneutic study centered on the phenomenon of feeling understood, which was conceptualized by the researcher as a melody of human becoming significant to quality of life. For the first time the Parse research method was used with music as part of the dialogical engagement. The study was conducted with 10 women living with an enduring health situation who volunteered to be in tape-recorded dialogue with the researcher to discuss feeling understood and to create a musical expression of this phenomenon. The finding of this study, which is the structure of the lived experience of feeling understood, surfaced from the dialogues and musical expressions: Feeling understood is an unburdening quietude with triumphant bliss arising with the attentive reverence of nurturing engagements, while fortifying integrity emerges amid potential disregard.
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