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    Music: Not Just for Fun If you could help your grandma with dementia get better and be able to better communicate with you, would you? What if you could help that little kid in the park with autism be more social and make more friends? Would you find a cure for your best friend that has been recently diagnosed with a crippling depression if possible? Well, using music therapy may now be an option for treatment to all of that. Recently, qualified therapists and scientists have, through studies and

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    Music have strong influences on individuals, some effects have more visibility and exposures, while other effects remain largely unknown. Individuals have utilized music to relax and to appreciate aesthetics, while other individuals have used music to regulate mood and to express oneself (Morrison). The more unfamiliar effects and uses of music have expanded; contemporary researches have discovered how music enhances concentration and cognitive functions, a primary reason why therapists increasingly

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    Music therapy is a special therapeutic that does not require verbal abilities or social interaction. Through research, scientist have tested and proven that music therapy increases the response of social interactions, motor- skills and speech naturally in autistic children. Although many people feel that music therapist are bias and have no control of an autistic child’s brain, music therapy has proven to guide autistic children through various modalities and auditory processing. Therefore, music

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    Myriah Street Elizabeth Crews En101 February 9,2017 Music Therapy: What it is exactly This article helps explain and break down exactly what music therapy is. Music therapy is a gentle, and effective form of actual therapy. Music therapy helps those in need of help mentally, physically, and emotionally. Whether the patient was domestically abused, raped, witnessed a tragedy, or anything. Therapists believe that music can help and solve anything. The article exclaims its importance to those who

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    Advocating Music Therapy: Where it is and Where it Should Be Music therapy is not a person with Alzheimer’s listening to his or her favorite songs on an iPod with headphones; however, music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music to improve physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. Music therapy is only advocated in three states: North Dakota, Nevada, and Georgia. Because not many understand the value of music therapy, it is not advocated in many other states. The goals and

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    Mrs. Moore English IV 16 March 2016 Is Music Therapy Effective in Mental Disorders? Music therapy serves as an alternative therapy to help many people with mental disorders, such as autism. Autism, a disorder that interferes with communication and cognitive development in the brain. Thus, music therapy aids in medical treatment, for example, using music therapy to overcome communication barriers in some patients. As an alternative therapy, it sometimes negatively impacts some spectrum

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    January, 2017 MLA Music Therapy The field of music therapy is one of the oldest forms of therapy. It can be applied to almost every ailment mental or physical and can be altered to fit almost any culture. Music therapy is defined as ¨a type of expressive arts therapy that uses music to improve and maintain the physical, psychological, and social well-being of individuals, involves a broad range of activities, such as listening to music, singing, and playing a musical instrument¨. Music has the ability

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    Music therapy is an odd concept to many people. They know that music can be therapeutic but get confused when faced with the idea of music actually being therapy. To me, music therapy is the process of goal-oriented musical interventions that establishes relationships between the clients, therapists, and music, so as to promote a holistic sense of wellness. However, there is no official definition of music therapy, it is amorphous and subjective. As a musician, the relationship between client, therapist

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    This article described music therapy observations between two children, 3-year-old Jason and 9-year-old Sophie, who were both diagnosed with Down Syndrome (DS). The observations were taken over a music therapy session in the Creative Learning Centre at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Sessions lasted around approximately over a month, but more specifically, a course of six weeks; Jason attended approximately five music therapy sessions, while Sophie attended six. What also assisted in the process

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    Music is a combination of melody and rhythm, it has physiological, psychological and social functional impacts on human body. In the physical level, music can stimulates the body 's autonomic nervous system, which is to regulate the heart rate, breathing rate, nerve conduction, blood pressure and endocrine. In the psychological level, music can cause human brain which is in charge of emotions and feelings do autonomic response, hence change the mood and release the anxiety. In fact, human body has

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