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Music therapy involves incorporating music into therapist-patient relationship development for promoting the latter's physiological, psychological, emotional and social health. One can consider music therapy to be a part of creative arts treatment, clinical treatment, or supplementary treatment relative to the conventional medical model. It encompasses numerous techniques such as playing a musical instrument, singing a song, listening to music and improvisation (McCaffrey 42). Autism spectrum disorder represents a lasting developmental disability which evolves at different levels of severity. The condition has been marked by the following three key characteristics: challenges when it comes to forging social bonds; intense limited fanatic interests; and issues when communicating verbally and non-verbally (National Autistic Society 1)
The Benefits of Music Therapy for Children with Autism
Autistic kids depict greater sensitivity to anxiety as compared to non-autistic ones, since they cannot effectively filter out any triggering stimulus. Steady rhythmic music or classical songs are considered ideal to relieving anxiety among autistic kids because of beat predictability. Most notably, perhaps, therapy using music can engage autistic kids and help them enjoy. Music therapy can elicit social behavioral and cognition transformations only if it is carried out repeatedly for long durations. Further, the ideal means to ensure kids are constantly kept busy is making...
Nearly like other kids of play, therapy involving music is a task autistic kids may take part in without feeling it's something other than a leisure activity (Autism Science Foundation para 11).
Autistic persons display equivalent or even superior skills in the areas of pitch processing, musical preference and labeling emotions within music, in comparison to normally developing persons. The strongest proof in support of music therapy's clinical advantages is in the domain of socio-emotional interaction and receptiveness, which includes greater conformity, decreased anxiousness, better speech output, responsive labeling, better interactions with other people, and lower vocal stereotypy. Further, preliminary outcomes support music's potential in aiding everyday-routine learning (Rudy para 4).
Therapy using music may aid autistic persons in improving their communication, cognitive, behavioral, sensory, motor/perceptual, self-determination/self-reliance, and social capabilities. Counselors identify music experiences which elicit positive emotions in a given client, forge trust and make personal connections. Autistic individuals usually display particular responsiveness to, and interest in, music. As music engages and inspires, counselors can utilize it as a sort of natural "reinforcement" to elicit required reactions. Moreover, music therapy may aid individuals exhibiting sensory abhorrence to particular sounds to address…
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Autism Science Foundation. "Music Therapy May Help Children with Autism." ASF Blog. N.p., 30 Aug. 2013. Web. 27 June 2017.
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Music therapy as a formal discipline emerged soon after the Second World War, when veteran's hospitals across the United States started to host musicians to improve quality of life of patients. Since then, a wealth of scientific literature has emerged about the efficacy of music therapy. Nearly every patient population seems to respond to music therapy, including animals. Music has been shown to have anti-anxiety, pro-immunity properties and can raise
This is particularly the case in elderly patients who suffer form various debilitating diseases and conditions, where it has been found that music therapy produces positive outcomes. References Anatomy of Melancholy. Retrieved April 8, 2008, at http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/robert/melancholy/S2.2.6.html Bhat, M. Udupa S. (2003) the Evolution, Appreciation and Representation of Music. MCGILL JOURNAL of MEDICINE, 7(2), pp. 190 -195. Black bile. Retrieved April 8, 2008, at http://www.answers.com/topic/melancholia. Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine. Retrieved April 9,
The shaman's use of animal language, or pre-literate languages, and other ritualistic methods of communication, like music and drumming, have parallels in the 'different space' created by the therapist in his or her office. In therapy, different forms of communication, the formulaic 'text' of conventional analysis, the release of drumming, or rhythmic pounding, and music play therapy for small children may be used to help the patient touch base with
According to this conception, the musical meaning of our Beethoven melody would lie in its expressing the feeling of joy, with power far exceeding that of Schiller's poem and of all words. The key to understanding the process that makes the tones of this melody a melody at all, a piece of music, we found not in the relation of the tones to any particular feeling but in the
This contrast in conjunction with the singer's frequent maniacal laughter summons an astonishingly clear image of a woman trapped within herself. Her laughter is crazed with fear and she repeats the words over and over again, unable to move beyond that singular point in time. Once again, a very complex idea is expressed that as quite transparent to analysis. The final excerpt, entitled "Oh My Child" seems to be about
However, this was when the musical elements that were so deeply rooted into my belief system, into my very soul started to appear and I began to clearly recognize that it was possible to pursue the existence of something even stronger and deeper in the world of art, more specifically in the world created by sounds. Possessing both a keen ability to observe and a very strong aptitude to recall