What can Bridget Jones teach us about Bereavement? In Conversation with Helen Fielding

In this episode, Dr Clare Tucker talks to Giorgos Tsiris, Music Therapy Professor, Queen Margaret University / Director of Education, Research and Creative Arts at St Columba’s Hospice Care, Edinburgh, Dr Tracey McConnell, Lecturer in chronic illness and palliative care / Honorary Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast and Dr Lisa Graham Wisner, Reader in Health Psychology, Queen's University Belfast / Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society. 

The guests share what music therapy is, what happens in a music therapy session and the role that music therapy can play in bereavement and palliative care. 

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Access the resources / publications mentioned in this podcast:

• British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT)
• Graham-Wisener, L., & McConnell, T. (2024). Music therapy could help manage the pain of bereavement. The Conversation.
• ‘GRESCO Agape’ - A songwriting project for change, loss and grief (video resource). A chapter regarding this songwriting project is also available: Tsiris, G. (2024) ‘“GRESCO Agape” – An international songwriting project for hospice patients and school children’, in C. Dileo and M. Baroni (eds) Music therapy at the end of life. Second edition. Jeffrey Books.
• Musical care at the end of life (video resource)
• The Bereavement Charter for Adults and Children in Scotland