Music is Good for the Soul By Zavia Willis Music is Good for the Soul

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 Exercise Relaxation Increase positive social interaction Concentration levels Increase critical thinking Increase available vocabulary at the ready Increase creativity

What Can It Improve cont. Health Emotional state Alleviate pain just like anesthesia Reduce muscular pain Reduce negative thoughts Fear Anger Ect… Increase memory skills Change state of mood whether it is to calm or excite the individual patient Reduce depression

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 The patient is asked to move around freely unless otherwise advised by doctors when in music therapy Sleep knock out 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 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

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