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Music Therapy

            Music may set our toes a-tapping, cause us to burst into song, send us into deep reverie, initiate recall of a specific experience, induce a deep emotional state, or produce an almost infinite number of mental and behavioral effects. Music and its role in the fields of learning and memory is of widespread interest, from the normal development and education of the young, through maturity, into problems of learning and memory in the aged. However, little attention has been devoted to how the brain learns and remembers musical material and concepts. Music and the way it affects people fascinates me. Because the study of music's affects on the activity in the brain could lead to breakthroughs in our educational and health programs, I would love to study music and psychology in college in order to pave the path for someday earning a degree in music therapy. .
             I first became aware of music therapy when I was a freshman in high school. Because I had always been interested in psychology, music therapy was appealing because it incorporated something I have a true passion for, music, with psychology. My passion for music was sparked when I began playing the trumpet in fourth grade. I continued playing up into high school at which point I started singing and also playing the trombone. I became actively involved in our school's music department, participating in the two school choirs and three school bands. I entered our high school's music department at a time of growth. As a department, we were fighting to make a name for ourselves in the community and to earn more support from our school. We made presentations around the community emphasizing the importance of music in education. This spurred my desire to research music's affects in education, which in turn led to my discovery of music therapy.
             Music therapy allows children to explore personal feelings and make positive changes in mood and emotional states.


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1. Music as Therapy for Depression and Mental Illness

... can play a health-care role in settings ranging from operating rooms to family clinics" (11). Because music is used throughout different environments, it is an effective form of therapy for pain. "Music therapy has been shown to have a significant effect on a patient's perceived effectiveness of treatment, self-reports of ... many different topics. Hopefully this essay has convinced whoever is reading this that music is a good source of therapy. Work Cited 1 Erkkilä, Jaakko. "What Is Music Therapy and How Does It Work." What Is Music Therapy and How It Works. N.p., 2010. Web. 2 "Music T...

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2. Music Therapy - Healing Transformations

... are not always accurate when reporting the effects of the Mozart effect as well as testimonials claiming that certain sounds are not helpful during a meditative process. Many people dislike music therapy because it is a pseudoscience and these treatments are falsely advertised by Don Campbell's case studies prove to be faulty when redone by other scientists, there is no clear study ... tuned to match the pitch of that note and hits various octaves of that note. Therapeutic Sessions and Music The origins of music therapy are hard to come by until CNN's reporter Elizabeth Landau interviewe...

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3. Music Therapy

... communicative, academic,motor,emotional and social skills. Indicated treatment includes creating, singing, writing, moving to and/or listening to music. With being a music therapist you will work with a large array or people( Music Therapy 1). Many of the people who use music therapy are people with psychiatric disorders, medical problems, physical handicaps, sensory impairments, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, communication disorders, interpersonal ... muscle tension, acute chronic pain, pain after operations, menstruation pains , childbirth, blindness and cancer patients?...

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4. The Many Benefits of Music Therapy

... . There is the National Association of Music Therapy (NAMT) that was formed in 1950 for music therapists. In 1998 the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) was formed to focus on, increase awareness of, and to access to music therapy services, as well as, promoting education and research in the field of music therapy. Music therapy can benefit many individuals. With music therapy having a diverse nature it can be ... applied in the treatment of both physical and psychological. Therapeutic use of music has been able to help people in ways that other ... forms of therapy have not. Mus...

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5. Music Therapy

... of this concise academic coursework, the students must then complete a six-month clinical internship, which is under the direction of a registered music therapist at an approved AMTA music therapy program. As ever changing as music therapy has been, this essence of change has also been recognized in the history of the therapist. In a short paragraph, Shreve states the ... relationship with the patient and moves in the desired direction at the most suitable rate in both the activity and the relationship."" (Gaston 3) Music therapy is administered to many people for many different problem...

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6. The Health Benefits of Music

... interaction and also improve immune responses in the individual group members. More studies are being conducted to explore this area further. Palliative Cancer Care: Pain Uses for music therapy extend beyond social hang-ups and immune response in patients, as it is being incorporated into cancer care as a form of pain and anxiety relief for the terminally ... to moderate analgesic effect (Archie, 2013)." Patients undergoing painful medical procedures such as mastectomy, bone marrow biopsy, and lumbar puncture, were exposed to music prior to the surgery and required less painkillers than...

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7. Music and Human

... composed to effect on each part of the body or symptom. In rehabilitation clinics, music therapy is also used. Music increases the amount of endorphins and the natural pain relievers, while decreases the amount of stress hormones.(Turner) Music therapy works not only on the body but also on mind. Music can provide an opportunity for the client to reminisce and talk about the fears of ... death, so music therapy is used in hospices.(Turner) As stated above, the client's breath slows down and mind is ... the patient can feel relaxed and can face with death quietly.(Turner) On the other h...

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8. Music Therapy Wellness Model

... even when the person is not in that room is very useful because "it charges the atmosphere with happy vibration." (p.102) It was interesting to see that music therapy can do so much and that so many people are skeptical. After reading this article and reading the conclusion of some of the studies done and there result I was amaze. ... people forget there problems and that's how it help sick adults and kids. But obviously there is more to it. Some thing that helped me understand more the power of music therapy was what Rider wrote about The Rhythmic Language of Health and Diseases. That...

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9. The Affects Of Music On Children

... on the spatial-reasoning test. In this connection, the article stresses the significance of music in public and private schools, in order to broaden children's minds and increase their chance for success in the future. Arguably, another way that music is able to help all ages is through therapy. Music therapy is used to help heal a variety of problems both behavioral and neurological. The whole ... disciplined process involves the fact that music is able to change the brain in terms of its function. A proficient study was done with ... rehabilitation, they would probably be rolling ove...

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