Transcript American Music Therapy Association

Music is Good for
the Soul
By Zavia Willis
Music Therapy
• Is a clinically proven enhancer of health in the scientific medical world
• It promotes rehabilitation, memory, social skills and much more
• A quote from American Music Therapy Association “The mission of the
American Music Therapy Association is to advance public awareness of
the benefits of music therapy and increase access to quality music
therapy services in a rapidly changing world.”
What Can It Improve
Performance
Academics
• Emphasize on movement and
dancing
• Concentration levels
• Increase critical thinking
• Increase available vocabulary at
the ready
• Increase creativity
• Exercise
• Relaxation
• Increase positive social
interaction
What Can It Improve cont.
Health
Emotional state
• Alleviate pain just like anesthesia
• Reduce muscular pain
• Reduce negative thoughts
• Change state of mood whether it
is to calm or excite the individual
patient
• Reduce depression
• Fear
• Anger
• Ect…
• Increase memory skills
What Can It Improve cont.
Singing
Blocking Out Noise
• Again promoting activity of the
patient
• Music is not stiff practice like
drawing blood where you have to
be still
• Sleep knock out
• The patient is asked to move
around freely unless otherwise
advised by doctors when in music
therapy
• Certain songs from a patients
childhood that they are fond of my
help them elate to a safe space in
their mind and relax better
Why Music Is Good
• Music Therapy is not reserved for only one solitude age group
What It Takes To Qualify
• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in music
• Masters degree in Therapy
• Several certificates ranging from the experience of the
individual handed out by the NMTR or National Music
Therapy Registry:
• RMT: Registered Music Therapist
• CMT: Certified Music Therapist
• ACMT: Advanced Certified Music Therapist
• Think of it being equivalent to the levels of nurses: trainee,
assistant nurse, nurse in training, high level nurse and then
branching out to specified titles of nurses
Why Genre Preference Differs For
Individuals
• There is no one dignified style of music that is more
benefactory to patients over another. The music relies on the
patients preference and to the MT who is performing.
• Each patient is assessed for the their specific needs and
looked into for which music genre is used in their treatment.
• Base Factors
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Whether they need to be calmed or energized
Religion
Tolerance for noise
Attention span
Whether music therapy would benefit the patient
The Distraction Versus Interaction
Of Lyrics
If a person enjoys listening to that song and they have heard it enough
times to know most of the words then it is a 50/50 neural fight for when
the song randomly comes on whether the person becomes distracted by
it or instantly knows its playing
Some Things To Look Out For
Can you listen to music while:
• You’re doing concentration based work
• Sleeping
• Cleaning
• Talking to someone
• Emotional range happy to mad
• Eating
• Watching something else in the background
Work Cited
"American Music Therapy Association." American Music Therapy
Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2016.
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