Music Therapy
Music Therapy Music therapy is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional. Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies. It consists a process in which a music therapist uses music and all of its aspects; physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual. Which is to help clients improve their physical and mental health. Music therapists primarily help clients improve their health in several domains.
For example, cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional development, social skills, and quality of life, by using music experiences. Which included free improvisation, singing, and listening to, discussing, and moving to music to achieve treatment goals. In other words, they express and let out any bottled emotion within music. Music therapists must go through a series to learn either clinical therapy, psychotherapy, biomusicology, musical acoustics, music theory, embodied music cognition, aesthetics of music, sensory integration, and comparative musicology. People may be sent to music therapy by other health care professionals such as physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. Clients do not need a prescription to pursue music therapy.
Music therapists are found in nearly every area of the helping professions. Some commonly found practices include developmental work with individuals with special needs, songwriting and listening in reminiscence/orientation work with the elderly, processing and relaxation work, and rhythmic entrainment for physical rehabilitation in stroke victims. Music
Therapy is also used in some medical hospitals, cancer centers, schools, alcohol and drug recovery programs, psychiatric hospitals, and correctional facilities.
Music has been used as a healing method for centuries. Apollo is the ancient Greek god of music and of medicine. Aesculapius was said to cure diseases of the mind by using song and
For example, cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional development, social skills, and quality of life, by using music experiences. Which included free improvisation, singing, and listening to, discussing, and moving to music to achieve treatment goals. In other words, they express and let out any bottled emotion within music. Music therapists must go through a series to learn either clinical therapy, psychotherapy, biomusicology, musical acoustics, music theory, embodied music cognition, aesthetics of music, sensory integration, and comparative musicology. People may be sent to music therapy by other health care professionals such as physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists. Clients do not need a prescription to pursue music therapy.
Music therapists are found in nearly every area of the helping professions. Some commonly found practices include developmental work with individuals with special needs, songwriting and listening in reminiscence/orientation work with the elderly, processing and relaxation work, and rhythmic entrainment for physical rehabilitation in stroke victims. Music
Therapy is also used in some medical hospitals, cancer centers, schools, alcohol and drug recovery programs, psychiatric hospitals, and correctional facilities.
Music has been used as a healing method for centuries. Apollo is the ancient Greek god of music and of medicine. Aesculapius was said to cure diseases of the mind by using song and