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    • Moving from Chord-play to Melody-play: Expand Your Guitar Playing Today – Download
    • Pandemic-Induced Traumatic Grief: How Music Therapists Can Help – Download
    • Ethics of Providing Care in a Pandemic: What MT-BCs need to know about COVID-19 – Download
    • Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in the Face of a Pandemic – Download
    • Self-Care: Essential Strategies for Survival as an MT-BC – Download
    • Pediatric Palliative Care Music Therapy: the Heartsongs of Care – Download
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    • Russell Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC
    • Karen Shipley Leggett, MA, MT-BC
    • Taryn Thomas, MA, MT-BC
    • Stephanie Riggs, MT-BC
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The Center for Music Therapy in End of Life Care provide training opportunities for professional and student music therapists, social workers, nurses, chaplains, among others. Participants who are board-certified music therapists may earn the Hospice & Palliative Care Music Therapist certificate designation by completing required courses.

Trainings are conducted by:

Russell Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC
Karen Shipley Leggett, MA, MT-BC
Taryn Thomas, MA, MT-BC
Stephanie Riggs, MT-BC

 

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