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| Music Therapy | |||||||||||||
| ������� "Music enables people to sometimes put words together in ways that are for them to do otherwise," Susan Shurin, M.D., Chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the Ireland Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio, argues. | |||||||||||||
| ������� Music therapy is using music to achieve therapeutic goals.� According to the American Music Therapy, Inc. website, "Professionally trained music therapist design and utilize music experiences to assess, treat, and evaluate patients."� Shurin says rhythm can make it easier for the patient to complete some tasks.� The objectives of the treatment are always decided upon with the patient's condition and modality; according to the American Music Therapy, Inc. website, "The benefits are described in medical, not musical, terms." | |||||||||||||
| ������� Music therapists have a background in music and psychology, says Berklee College of Music.� The American Music Therapy Association, Inc. (AMTA) website says that, after the completion of a college degree, there is a national exam, given by the Certification Board for Music Therapist (CBMT).� If aspiring music therapist pass, they are then Music Therapist-Board Certified, which means they can practice professionally.� In the National Music Therapy Registry, all certified therapists are listed; if they are not, they have not been trained properly. | |||||||||||||
| ������� Music therapists work in nursing homes, hospitals, community centers, disability camps and schools to provide relief to their patients, according to the Berklee College of Music.� William Frohlich, President of Beth Abraham Health Services in New York, explains, "I think the therapist plays an integral role when you are talking about a team of physicians, a team of nurses, therapists, physical, or occupational therapist and so on [?] included on that team needs to be a music therapist." | |||||||||||||
| ������� According to the website for the AMTA, a music therapist addresses patients with instrumental and vocal activities designed to create changes in non-musical ways, based on the needs of the patient in areas of chronic pain, physical rehabilitation, cardiac conditions, and surgery.� Dr. Walter Quan, Jr., Oncologist-Hematologist at St. Luke?s Medical Center, contends, "We see some patients whose blood pressure does come down and seems to stay down through regular use of music therapy."� He also says music therapy is used to relieve pains during labor and relax the patient.� Frohlich says, "It is important for the music therapist to become part of the treatment for total modality.� Observations show where a patient may be singing where they could not even speak before." ��� Research by Coast Music Therapy shows similarities between speech and singing, as well as rhythm improving motor skills.� The songs used in music therapy are used as a way to help chunk and recall new information.� | |||||||||||||
| ������� Matthew J. Bush, MSW, LSW and author of Utilizing Music as a Coping Skill, uses popular music to help his patients.� Also, he has created ways in which other therapists can incorporate music into their treatments.� For example, The Power of Music Therapy says, "Under the Bridge, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers,Kiedis sings about how when he was younger he would go "under the bridge" to meet with a drug dealer. In interviews he has talked about this being the lowest point of his life." | |||||||||||||
| ������� Coast Music Therapy explains that treatments are used to improve communication, social, or motor skills.� Music therapy is a positive approach, as well as a way of rewarding children whose behaviors get in the way of their learning.� The Autism Research Institute recommends using music therapy as a form of nonverbal communication.� � | |||||||||||||
| ������� Joseph Arezzo, PhD, Vice Chair, Department of Neuroscience, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, offers this observation: "The degree to which function can be recovered from music therapy is phenomenal, and we are just tapping into the extent that we can get recovery following stroke, injury, or disease." | |||||||||||||
| Refrences | |||||||||||||
| American Music Therapy Association. (1999).� Music therapy and medicine.� Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.musictherapy.org/faqs.html | |||||||||||||
| Berklee College of Music.� (2007).� Careers in music therapy.� Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.berklee.edu/careers/therapy.html | |||||||||||||
| Canadian Association for Music Therapy. (2006).� Music therapists.� Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://musictherapy.ca/musictherapists.htm | |||||||||||||
| Coast Music therapy.� (N.D.).� Retrieved on October 24, 2007, from http://www.coastmusictherapy.com/ | |||||||||||||
| The Etherapy Center.� (N.D.).� Credentials.� Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.etherapy.com/credentials.htm | |||||||||||||
| Freudian Slip. (N.D.).� Music therapy and using music in therapy.� Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.enterthefreudianslip.com/use_of_music_therapy.htm | |||||||||||||
| Staum, M.� (N.D.).� Music therapy and language for the autistic child.� Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.autism.org/music.html | |||||||||||||
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