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Music Therapy

  • Music Therapy is, "the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approaved music therapy program" [1]

  • Who can receive 

    • Trauma survivors

    • Pediatric patients

    • Cancer patients

    • The elderly

    • Children with disabilites

    • Adults with disabilites

    • Hospice patients

    • Troubled teens

    • Psychatric patients

    • Etc. 

  • Find a Music Therapist 

 

How Music Therapy is Benefical for Trauma Victims

  • Music Therapists have worked with " survivors of various traumas and abuse to work with wide

       ranging goals using music to access emotions and underlying experiences: assist with grief and loss: and 

       cope with physical, sexual and/ or emotional abuse" [2]

  • Musical Improvisation is a key factor in recovery for trauma victims because it allows them to express themselves.

    • Musical improviations, " contain aspect of emotional, psychological and creative expression in

            a rich kaleidoscopes that is built from intra- and interpersonal patterns... Musical improviations

            can reach the unconsious and can be seen as a symbol of unconscious material" [3]

  • Music is a good medium for stimulating traumatic memories because music is a nonthreatining medium [4]

  • Music Therapy be can benefical for people of all ages especially children. 

    • "Children connect naturally with music due to its non-verbal features, a connection that is formed even prior to birth" [5]

 

Sources

[1] AMTA

"Definition and Quotes about Music Therapy."American Music Therapy Association, n.d. Web. 6 Mar. 2015. <http://www.musictherapy.org/about/quotes/>.

[2] Clement-Cortes (12)

Clements-Cortés, Amy. "Music to Shatter the Silence: A Case Study on Music Therapy, Trauma, and the Holocaust/La Musique Pour Briser Le Silence : Une Étude De Cas Sur La Musicothérapie, Les Traumatismes, Et l'Holocauste." Canadian Journal of Music Therapy 14.1 (2008): 9-21. ProQuest. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.

[3] Amir (99)

Amir, Dorit. "Giving Trauma a Voice: The Role of Improvisational Music Therapy in Exposing, Dealing with and Healing a Traumatic Experience of Sexual Abuse." Music Therapy

[4] Felenstein (71)

Felsenstein, Rivka. "From Uprooting To Replanting: On Post-Trauma Group Music Therapy For Pre-School Children." Nordic Journal Of Music Therapy 22.1 (2013): 69-85. Music Index. Web. 22 Feb. 2015.

[5] Felenstein (71)

Felsenstein, Rivka. "From Uprooting To Replanting: On Post-Trauma Group Music Therapy For Pre-School Children." Nordic Journal Of Music Therapy 22.1 (2013): 69-85. Music Index. Web. 22 Feb. 2015.

 

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