Author : Sarah Elizabeth Osterhouse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Book Synopsis Implications of the Five Major Religious Death Systems for Hospice Music Therapy Practice by : Sarah Elizabeth Osterhouse
Download or read book Implications of the Five Major Religious Death Systems for Hospice Music Therapy Practice written by Sarah Elizabeth Osterhouse and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to research and compile the five major religions in the United States in order to provide hospice music therapists with informative material on how the philosophies of those religions may affect a patient and family's quality of care at end-of-life. Music and spirituality have intrinsic connections that are valuable in the field of hospice music therapy, where music may be used to accomplish a clinical, therapeutic, or spiritual goal. There is a high demand for culturally competent healthcare with the increasingly diverse cultures and ethnic populations in the US. The five major religions in the United States include Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, and they will be analyzed according to the death system model described by Kastenbaum in 1977, which breaks down a death system into the places, people, times, objects and symbols that surround death philosophy in that system. Additional information was categorized for each religion in terms of overview and general beliefs, beliefs about death, end of life care, mourning and grieving, and hospice music therapy implications. The results provide an informative foundation for hospice music therapists to work with patients from one of the five major religions in the US and prompt music therapists and other professionals to seek cultural competency and cultural humility both professionally and interpersonally.