Music therapy

Music therapy. A term that has grown so much over the past few decades. As a music therapist in training, when people find out what I’m studying, the common response is “wow, that sounds so interesting, what is it?” I then often struggle to find the words to describe such an amazing concept to people in such few words. The trouble is that “music therapy means different things to different people for myriad reasons” (Bruscia, 1998). The challenge in defining music therapy is that it is the…

practices, speech-music therapy which consists of a combination of speech therapy and music therapy and, speech motor learning, the patient learns consonants and vowels in nonsense words. Speech Motor Learning Approach and Speech-Music Therapy In both the Speech…

Music therapy may accompany medical treatment to promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, enhance memory, help patients, communicate and express feelings, and even promote physical rehabilitation. Studies have shown that making or listening to music can even lower blood pressure, heart and breathing rates. Music therapy consists of foundation in music theory, history, compositions, arranging, keyboard, guitar, voice, improvisation, and conducting. Music therapy will heal the mind, heart,…

Case Examples of Music therapy for Survivors of Abuse by Kenneth E. Bruscia is a collection of case studies in which the clients discussed have been affected negatively by emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. The emotions manifested by each study aided me as a reader to understand what everyone had to face physically and emotionally. Physical wounds heal on their own, but psychological symptoms often worsen over time without the proper treatment because these traumatic experiences infest…

Although therapy has so many varieties and types the emotional benefits are far and wide the benefits of using aesthetics to evaluate any type of art can be difficult, but I believe using any type of art can be beneficial to a person’s spirit. Music therapy is something that I use in my daily life. Music therapy was formally established as a profession in 1950. (Abrams, 2011) Since that time, the practice of music therapy has been conceptualized and defined in a wide variety of ways this spirit…

Music Therapy For Children with Special Needs Sarah is a sixteen year old girl who was born with autism. She is always very loud and yelling. She never listens to what her parents tell her to do. Her parents went to therapists and tried everything they could to to try to make her behave better. One therapist told them about a type of therapy called music therapy. They decided that they would try it out and they started to see a real change in Sarah’s behavior. There was almost no more of her…

topic that I choose for my project is Music Therapy. I choose this topic because I really enjoy music, I grew up listening to all types of genre of music, my father was really interested in music which influenced me. I used to play flute in grade school, I was in the choir and I was in a few musical plays. My father was in a band for years and then when I was born he would sing to me every night, and I just grew up to like music. There is all kinds of music for different occasions and can…

Music is a very important aspect to our everyday life. Some might find it difficult to go throughout the day without listening to some kind of music. There are different reasons as to why people listen to music, some may be for entertainment, emotional connection, and or physical activity. Music has different effects on everybody which provides the support for music therapy. Music Therapy is the use of music to promote, maintain, and restore mental, emotional, and spiritual health. The idea of…

The guitar can be hard to play, the guitar should be used more in therapy because it could be used to address social or psychological problems, it could relieve some stress, and it helps develop hand eye coordination . C. D. Theses II. Body A. Playing the guitar in music therapy could help people that have social or psychological problems. 1. Music therapists profit their patients accomplish various objectives through music, including enhancement of correspondence. 2. Kids can experience…

to feel better. There is such an easy solution to feel better other than these things and it is music. Music therapy can help people who have a mental illness and even save their lives. People with mental health issues can benefit from music therapy, they can have a better understanding of what music therapy is, and music therapists can help them learn to express themselves in a positive way. Music can help people by giving them an outlet for their emotions and putting their focus and energy…