Music Therapy: Is It The Cure To Mental & Physical Problems? Music therapy is defined as the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote‚ maintain‚ and restore mental‚ physical‚ emotional‚ and spiritual health. Music has nonverbal‚ creative‚ structural‚ and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact‚ interaction‚ self-awareness‚ learning‚ self-expression‚ communication‚ and personal development (Source: Canadian
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networking of the brain and the patients body functions have a huge role when using music therapy. Each song or sound is able to stimulate certain areas of the brain. Although it wont release a visible chemical in the brain‚ doctors are able to see the networking effects and electro charges given off. For many of reasons music therapy is able to slow heart rates‚ reduce blood pressure along with
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Music therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to improve the physical and cognitive state of a patient. The specialized music therapist has one main goal with their client‚ to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional. ("American Music Therapy Association." What Is Music Therapy. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.) Music therapy can help reduce muscle tension‚ decrease anxiety‚ and help improve self-image
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How is Music Therapy used with elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of Dementia? Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia in the United Kingdom‚ affecting approximately 417‚000 people. First described by German neurologist Alois Alzheimer‚ Alzheimer’s ‘can be considered as being the most important of the degenerative diseases because of its frequent occurrence and devastating consequences.’ The disease is a progressive one which means that once patients have the
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Music therapy is both a clinical and evidence based use of music that provides an accomplished‚ individualized‚ and therapeutic approach to the treatment of mental disorders in adults ages eighteen to fifty. The use of music in a therapeutic session helps to address the cognitive‚ communicative‚ social‚ and emotional needs of an individual. Treatment in music therapy is based around the influence that music has on the functional changes in a person’s brain and their behavior. The influence of music
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Mohr 1 Music Therapy at The College of Wooster I chose to research music therapy because it is a unique career that would allow me to enjoy music and use the appreciation I have for music to help people. As Jodie Picoult once said “Music therapy‚ to me‚ is music performance without the ego. It’s not about entertainment as much as it’s about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else’s mind‚ you can begin to fix a problem.”. The purpose
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February 20‚ 2012 Music Therapy Throughout life we seem to always be drawn to some type of music. From Mozart to Run DMC‚ everyone loves music. My Cousin Lucas would be considered the modern day Stevie Wonder in our family. He’s played songs that I couldn’t play in my sleep. From Beethoven’s "Fur Elise” to Mozart’s "Turkish March‚" he always seemed to top himself from one complicated song to the next. Having been born in Memphis‚ Tennessee my cousin was always around some form of music. When he was seven
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2012 How Does Music Therapy Affect Patient’s Psychological and Physiological Well-being? Many countries that you can travel to‚ have their own style of music that makes up their culture‚ which is incorporated into their lifestyles. Music was not only created around the world for enjoyment‚ but has been used as a form of comfort‚ a stress reliever‚ and a healer (“What Is Music Therapy?”). According to the American Cancer Society‚ in their Find and Support Treatment section‚ music therapy was developed
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Kayla Lane February 2‚ 2013 The Effectiveness of Music Therapy Mental illness and depression runs in my family. Doctors are always trying different treatments or experimental medications to help. Some doctors suggest spending time in a mental institution where everything is monitored and group therapy is required. Others suggest several weekly visits to psychologists for one-on-one sessions. Most of the times these sessions are just stressful the entire time and people in my family think it is
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Music’s therapeutic effects have been observed since ancient times‚ though; the clinical practice of music therapy became truly widespread during the 1940s‚ when hospitals employed musicians to aid in the treatment of veterans (American Music Therapy Assoc.). Now music therapy has a number of practical applications. For children with autism‚ music therapy allows them to lead a fulfilling life‚ increase communication and social skills‚ reinforce academic skills as well as life skills. ASD is an abbreviation
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