It has become a source of healing to our minds both physically and mentally. Music therapy has been found to help the elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is defined…
Music can form a link between the Child Life Specialist and the patient. The Child Life Specialist selects specific activities and exercises to help the patient improve. As a Child Life Specialist, I would include music into the program for children. Some of the methods used to attain this are singing and listening to music. The main aim is to improve the patient’s capability to function.…
Connecting with the fifth example, the overcoming of an obstacle allows the sixth benefit, a release both mentally and spiritually, rewarding the patient. A seventh influence can be found where patients reach a type of meditation with the music used. Tied with the second example, the eighth example showed how music could assist in the processing of a troubled past. Last, the ninth influence allows can form a connection of adoration with the patient’s higher power. (Bonny, 2001, p.…
Gerber's resources elaborate on their claim by providing studies and statistics that were recorded by various institutions such as the Center for Disease Control. In the article “Creative Music Therapy with Premature Infants: An Analysis of Video Footage” (2014), Friederike Barbara Haslbeck claims that creative music therapy may be particularly effective to pacify, engage, and empower premature infants without being overwhelming (5). Haslbeck continues justifying their claim by conducting an experiment in which premature infants are stimulated with music to observe how the music affects their issues cause by prematurity. “…
The patients in the music group were allowed to choose to listened to 5 or 6 musical pieces of very different styles including relaxing, cheerful, lively pieces, pop, classical, film scores, folk, and jazz played with the saxophone for about 30 minutes. At the end of the 30-minute live music performance, the patient returned to his room in hospital. Part 2 (Physiological parameters: systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, glycemia, and oxygen saturation ) and part 3 ( Pain level, and mood level, using the VAS ) of the instrument were administered as baseline before the 30-minute music intervention in week 1. For week 2 to week 4, part 2 and part 3 of the instrument were administered after the music intervention. Patients in the control group received non -music intervention (30-minute rest period) before part 2 and part 3 data were collected.…
This intervention would automatically face resistance from the patient groups especially in the choice of music while some nurses and physicians as well as the quality assurance department would regard the aspects of quality of care and serene peaceful environment for patients as having been compromised (Bowling, 2014). The utilization of music therapy would be highly successful in a year’s time from the time of implementation with patient tasking control of the music therapy programs and nurses only playing a support or technical…
1. Introduction It has been almost 70 years since today’s concept of music therapy appeared in the United States and the United Kingdom. The number of music therapists and schools for music therapy in the world has been gradually increasing. As for Japan, it has been 50 years since music therapy was introduced by Juliette Alvin in 1967 and 1969, who founded the first organisation for music therapy in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, it is still hard to say that the practice of music therapy in Japan has widely spread.…
The result of that music was increased agitation, increased heart rate (to dangerous levels), and decreased oxygen saturation rates. This necessitated increased sedation medication which can have negative side effects” (Lillieth). Due to an unqualified individual administering music therapy for a patient, the patient was then put at an unnecessary risk which caused complications with the healing process. Music therapy is a wonderful tool to use when looking for a less…
The American Music Therapy Association uses clinical and evidence based use of musical interventions to accomplish individualized therapy goals. Emotional expression…
This evidence suggests that music can actually be a big part in the medical world. (Kogan…
A study conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics tested the effects of different types of music on the behavior of young children. They found that…
The World Federation of Music Therapy 2011, defines the use of music and its elements as an intervention in a medical setting involving individuals, groups, families, or communities who seek to optimise their quality of life and enhance their physical, social, communicative, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual wellness and wellbeing. Dementia affects various parts of a person 's brain, causing cognitive complexities, however when involved in music therapy patients who may no longer be able to recognise their loved ones may still be able to sing, hum, clap or tap feet providing them with a means of communication and expression. Neuroscientists acknowledge that music affects our brain in a remarkable way as it simulates a network of structures…
This quickly reduces the feelings of loneliness and isolation. Next, by exposing them to music of different genres, the music therapist encourages the patient to express their repressed emotions. In the last stage, the music makes them experience a connectedness to themselves and to the world. This brings them to a state of acceptance and balance, allowing them to let go of emotional pain. In the first (contact) stage, the theme of the songs they listen to is “the world”.…
Music is termed as sound that is organized using melody or rhythm. If you bang something making in a rhythmic way, then you are making music. Music has pitch, rhythm, and timbre. People have loved music since the Stone Age. People in the Stone Age made music from trying to imitate sounds that occurred naturally.…
Before I researched How Music affects Mental Health I knew that music touches a different part of the brain that can be distant or hard to connect to without it. Music also plays a huge role in my life as it does many others in the world. I sing everyday and that’s therapy in itself. My curiosity with how music affects mental health began when my sister started music therapy. Ever since I was a little girl I've always turned to music to get me through hard times.…