Dear All,
I am pleased to announce the release of a new book on Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing, edited by Rosie Perkins and recently published by Oxford University Press.
To celebrate this exciting new publication, we invite you to join us for an online launch event on Monday 1st July, from 4-5pm via Zoom. For more information and to reserve your spot, please click HERE.
Below, you will find additional details about the book. We hope you can join us online to celebrate its launch!
About Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing:
There is compelling evidence that music can enhance parental wellbeing, yet to date there have been few attempts to bring together current endeavours in the field. Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing provides readers from music, health, and beyond, with a new and comprehensive opportunity to consider how music can support parental mental wellbeing. Drawing on recent ground-breaking practice, research, and evaluation the book illuminates how music can support mental wellbeing in pregnancy and the postnatal period, childbirth, and perinatal hospital settings, and in the early years.
Each chapter provides introductory context, describes the relevant musical practice, considers the intersections with parental wellbeing, and ends with implications for practice and key take-aways for the reader. With an interdisciplinary and international team of authors, including music and health practitioners, experts by experience, and researchers, this book explores and establishes the roles of music, in its many forms, in supporting and enhancing parental mental wellbeing.
Author Information:
Edited by Rosie Perkins, Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music, London. Rosie's research focuses on the intersection of music and mental health, with a particular emphasis on societal wellbeing and artist development.
Best wishes,
Michael
Michael Durrant
Event Coordinator, Music and Parental Wellbeing Research Network
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