If you provide bedside music in pediatrics, this book is for you! Learn practical ways in which your music sessions can extend beyond performance into more interactive experiences. Ground your work in research foundations, and explore how improvisation, music learning and joint music-making can provide enhanced benefit to patient health and well-being. This handbook features: an arts in health research overview; evidence-based activities; suggestions on how to shape a music session; illustrative anecdotes; suggestions on how to document your work; infection control overview; links to arts in health organizations and resources; and printable visual supports. the author, Wendy Lanxner, M.M.Ed., is the Musician in Residence at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.