As Plato once said, "I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” Music has been a part of learning since children could hear the melodies their mothers would sing to them as infants. Music always has been a valuable source for education because it inquires human beings to be active physically, emotionally, and cognitively; as children, we all learned to sing our ABCs in order to read and write. Music can facilitate children in transferring their knowledge to all subjects in school; for example, a child who partakes in playing an instrument has an enhanced understanding about math due to the rhythms he/she plays. Does music therapy help students with emotional and behavioral disorders? If so, can music therapy provide helpful strategies for children with emotional and behavioral disorders to assist them the classroom environment? Can the knowledge of a music therapist provide general and special education teachers’ insight to implement these valuable techniques in their teaching lessons? With these ideas in mind, I am going to investigate how music therapy can aid a child with emotional and behavioral disorders. I want to explore the benefits of music therapy through meta-analysis from previous research, explain the different types of behavioral disorders a teacher may witness in their classroom, and how general and special education teachers can make a difference in the students’ lives with the help of music being integrated in the classroom. Music therapy is an ongoing study of how music can affect human beings physically, emotionally, and cognitively. This distinctive type of therapy has been an idea since Aristotle an... ... middle of paper ... ...apeutic research. JSTOR. Montello, L. and Coons, E. E. 1998. Effects of active versus passive group music therapy on preadolescents with emotional, learning, and behavioral disorders. Journal of Music Therapy, 35 (1), pp. 49--67. Sausser, S. and Waller, R. J. 2006. A model for music therapy with students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 33 (1), pp. 1--10. See, C. 2012. The Use of Music and Movement Therapy to Modify Behaviour of Children with Autism. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 20 (4). Shafer, C. 2014. Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. [online] Available at: http://www.catherineshafer.com/emotional.html [Accessed: 18 Mar 2014]. Smith, T. E. C., Polloway, E. A., Patton, J. R. and Dowdy, C. A. 2012. Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc.
This essay will explore the perspectives of music therapists including Julie Sutton and Gary Ansdell and research of Psychologists Paul Gilbert, Nigel Hunt and Sue Mchale.
Music therapy not only works on adults in the workplace but also on premature babies, infants, and children as well.
This paper will examine a 10-session theoretical group therapy intervention. The population served will be adults who have endured childhood trauma and who deal with mental health issues resulting from those traumatic experience(s). The purpose is to intervene with music therapy to aid in the abatement of most mental health symptoms excluding personality disorders and psychosis.
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...aled after the 2nd or 3rd treatment, and five failed the test. (Campbell. #249) These statistics not only show that music is successful after the first try, but also after the 2nd and 3rd times as well. The mentally disabled also benefit from music. For instance, a patient with parkinson’s disease stands in a frozen stance unable to initiate a step forward, the music therapist starts to sing a song with a strong rhythm. The client’s frozen stance is unlocked and she takes a faltered step forward, then gets into the rhythm of walking. (Campbell, #112) Another example, is that developmentally disabled-children are known to respond positively to music, where other means of comprehending and sharing experience are confused or limited. (Heal #14) Music therapy is being applied in today’s medical field, and it seems it will continue to push innovation in the medical field.
...e to communicate with the people that have supported her throughout the whole process and others that she will meet in years to come. She is happy, intelligent, and is open to new foods and learning new things at an accelerating rate. Nicholas used to be antisocial and quiet around the other kids at his daycare. However, now has the confidence to make friends at daycare, interact with them, play with them and have the courage ride his new tricycle. His parents describe him as a “speed demon.” Music has helped him improve on skills he was lagging and has essentially built up his self-esteem. He has improved overall and completely changed. Music is extremely beneficial since it has helped expand therapeutic purposes for autistic patients like Ashley and Nicholas, but others that have been through severe trauma, a heart attack and patients suffering from cancer too.
Music therapy works because of its three fundamentals: the application of systematic thinking through music theory, the creation of an individualized treatment plan, as well as the patie...
Music therapy can be combined with occupational to increase the benefits of the special education services. A significant challenge people on the autism spectrum face is effectively communicating their thoughts, desires, and emotions in a socially acceptable way. Using improvisation in music therapy can help students on the spectrum express what they are feeling. Learning to use musical elements such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and form, can help this population demonstrate musically what they need to communicate. For example, if they are feeling sad, they might improvise with a slow tempo. If they are angry, their improvisation might be loud and fast.
Music Therapy is the use of music to treat a range of conditions either physical or mental (Questia, 2017). It can be used to help a range of conditions such as: autism, mental health (for example anxiety and depression), learning disabilities and neuro disabilities (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), 2017). This could be proven useful due to its variety of conditions it can help with, it is a very different idea to help people and music in general is very enjoyable and uplifting. It can also be useful for it is a way people can express themselves, there are many cases in which people do not know how to communicate with others or do not like talking about their conditions or how they feel and communication is very important. However,
In the article “Developments in music therapy practice: case study perspectives”, Meadows talks about how music plays an influential role in a child’s development, such as moment, language, thoughts, feeling development, and connection to others. The first years of a child’s life are crucial since it’s when the most change is occurring. Music is naturally absorbed with children leading to immediate engagement, thus promoting and expanding development (Meadows,
What is music and how does it help patients? Using music helps when the day is tough, and my body is full of anxiety and unhappiness. People like to say, that music can calm the savage beast, according to Snyder, & Linguist, (2009) This literature review will discuss how
Music and sounds have the power to effect one’s thoughts and emotions. Certain tones, pitches, lyrics, and melodies can invoke happiness, sadness, relief, and confidence. To achieve these emotions with music, many people find it helpful to enroll into music therapy. According to the American Music Therapy Association, music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals. These goals may be to manage stress, promote wellness, alleviate pain, enhance memory, or express feelings. Music therapy is widely used in hospital and other inpatient settings, furthermore in outpatient settings and personal use. It is studied in patients and family with cardiac issues, cancer, psychiatric cases, and as general palliative care, as well as other fields. It has been found that women preparing for labor received the greatest benefit of music therapy, followed by medical procedures and occupational stress. (Elliot, 2011)
Music Therapy (which is using music in a therapeutic relationship to address cognitive, emotional, physical, and social needs of individuals) (1) has drastically changed in the past 15 year. These changes were brought about because of new insight from research into music and brain functions. Scientist have found that music and its counterparts are a highly structured auditory language that involves complex perception, cognition, and motor control in the brain.
Trevarthen, C. (2002). The 'Second Making Sense of Infants Making Sense. Intellectica, 1, 161-188. Trevarthen, C., & Malloch, S. (2000). The Dance of Wellbeing: Defining the Musical Therapeutic Effect.
Each of the studies provides good evidence in support of music therapy as a means to help physical and psychological problems. As more research is done to further solidify the potential of music therapy, the chances of becoming a widely accepted form of medical treatment increases.