As more and more music therapy graduates have to create jobs for themselves and start programs from scratch, there is a need for music therapists to have skills in designing programs for a wide range of facilities and client groups. This paper empirically describes the design, development and co-ordination of a music therapy program in a Therapeutic Community (TC) for substance dependent adults...

Previous studies have examined the neural correlates of emotion regulation and the neural changes that are evoked by music exposure. However, the link between music and emotion regulation is poorly understood. The objectives of this review are to (1) synthesize what is known about the neural correlates of emotion regulation and music-evoked emotions, and (2) consider the possibility of therapeu...

Music therapy is a newly developed clinical technique in occupational therapy. Music therapy is defined by the Canadian Association for Music Therapy as "...the planned use of music to achieve therapeutic aims with people who have special needs because of social, emotional, physical or intellectualproblems".Manyoccupationaltherapists and nursing professionals have suggested applying music to th...

BACKGROUND The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in the control of cardiac function. It has been suggested that sound and music may have effects on the autonomic control of the heart inducing emotions, concomitantly with the activation of specific brain areas, i.e. the limbic area, and they may exert potential beneficial effects. OBJECTIVE This study is a prerequisite and defin...

How do music therapists experience themselves in clinical improvisation in music therapy? The aim of this inter-disciplinary study is to show how music therapists describe and experience the life-world of the self in clinical improvisation through phenomenological investigation. Informed by sociological social psychological theory proposing that the self develops in social discourses, this stud...

Music has soothed the souls of human beings for ages. It also has helped people recover from ailments since ancient times. Today, there is a widespread interest in the use of music therapy in treating psychiatric disorders. This article describes the various types of music therapy in use today and also offers insight into how music therapy can be incorporated into the management of psychiatric ...

BACKGROUND Language development is one of the most significant processes of early childhood development. Children with delayed speech development are more at risk of acquiring other cognitive, social-emotional, and school-related problems. Music therapy appears to facilitate speech development in children, even within a short period of time. The aim of this pilot study is to explore the effects...

Music now plays an increasing role in several disparate areas. Music therapy appears to affect physiological phenomen such as blood pressure, heart beat, respiration, and mydriasis as well as emotional aspects such as mood and feelings. It is used in the rehabilitation of patients with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, fibromyalgia, stroke, aphasia and visual rehabilitation. Music in the patient w...