The journal I read was Individual Music Therapy for Depression: randomized controlled trial. The idea of this trial was to try to understand weather music therapy and long side of standard care is beneficial or not. At the time the most common treatment for depression was medication and psychotherapy. In the past there have been studies done on the efficiency of music therapy and they concluded that it was beneficial. However only one study was done were the participants were apart of the working class. Due to that this study limited its participants to only those of the working class in order to collect more research on the effects of music therapy on this group of people. In this study there were two types of therapies: Standard care or Music Therapy. Standard care consisted of 5 to 6 private therapy sessions conducted by a nurse trained in depression counseling. Music therapy was a total of 20 sessions each one lasting about an hour conducted by professionals in music therapy. Music therapy can be done in a variety of …show more content…
Each of the participants were diagnosed with unipolar depression. Anyone that fit this description was able to be apart of the study regardless if they were on medication or not and no musical background was necessary. The participants were randomly assigned standard care or music therapy, the ration being seven music therapy participants to every 10 standard care participants. The researchers met with the participants on two occasions. The first occasion was at the 3-month mark, which took place directly after the music therapy was introduced. The second occasion was at the 6-month mark which was after the treatment had ended. In this experiment the assessing researcher was unaware of which group each participant came from and the assessment took place at a different
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.
The author explains how randomized clinical trials put physicians in ethically intolerable positions of choosing between the good of the patient and that of society. A kantian argument is formed when the author explains how the physician has the duty to tell the truth and not use the patient as a mere means to satisfy the needs of a majority. The well being of the patient is far more important than that of the society when it comes to treatment by personal physician, the Author suggests that there should be alternatives to randomized clinical trials to deal with observer bias and patient selection. The overall message of the article stresses the importance of a patient’s well being over the well being of a society because the physician has the duty to help the patient improve his/her health.
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...
The article I read was entitled Occupational Performance Needs of Young Veterans. The framework discussed in this article is post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, major depression, and alcohol abuse/ dependency. The clients were young Veterans (aged 20-29 years of age) who served in the Iraqi war. While some former soldiers did have physical disabilities, a majority of the former soldiers suffered from psychological disorders. The main reason that I chose this article is that I have two cousins (Nick and B.J (Lyman)) who served in the Afghanistan and Iraqi war so this article really hits home from me.
B., Gfeller, K. E., & Thaut, M. H. (2008). An Introduction to Music Therapy: Theory and
Music therapy in the U.S. on the late 18th century. Although the U.S. started using it in the late 18th century, there is evidence of music being used to heal dating back to ancient times. This evidence is in the form of historical writings of ancient civilizations such as Egypt, China and India. The ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome also have evidence of using music to heal. Music therapy is much different now than how it was originally used in ancient times. Music therapy is also evident in biblical scriptures. Although music therapy is not very well heard of but it can be very useful and beneficial to people in a range of ages and those with health issues. There can be some negative effects but research is being done to help a wider range of people, and for the most part music therapy is a wonderful thing. (Notecard 9)
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.
Music is everywhere we go; we listen to it in the car, while doing work, and there are even people who pay to listen or watch an artist perform live. Yes, life goes on without music, but music has such an impact on our lives. Life is a rollercoaster of emotions and we have music to fit our emotions to be just as we feel. Music has a great deal of importance of many people. It can have a meaning that they cannot explain to others and are able to connect with the song. By doing so experts are able to help patients overcome many sicknesses with the help of music. Music therapy is capable of being an advantage for many individual patients, it can encourage responses from patients that other methods of therapy cannot get from them. Also, it improves the patients in distinctive ways other than for an illness.
Music therapy isn’t the same as other therapy. Music therapy uses music to help establish a connection of ...
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,
There are some key distinctions between Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) in a psychotherapeutic context and a medical context. There are key differences between the design of an RCT to evaluate a new drug and an RCT to evaluate a new form of couples’ therapy. However, it is important to begin by defining and understanding the importance of RCT in research (O'Brien, 2013).
There are many studies that show how music therapy helps people with mood disorders. People with depression can benefit from music therapy because through music therapy they can lessen the symptoms of depression. In the studies and cases that will be mentioned we can see that music therapy is effective through methods like group therapy. It is shown that people with depression that go through music therapy are affected in a positive way.
Introduction Clinical trials are a gateway to proven practical medical treatment, so it requires accuracy and validity of the outcomes. Placebo control trials are therefore employed in clinical trials as nearly half of academic physicians have answered in a questionnaire that they had used a placebo in their clinical trials (Sherman and Hickner, 2007). To have the higher scientific validity of results on the clinical trials requires that prospective, carefully selected subjects and endpoints, a control group, randomly allocated subjects into a treatment group and a control group, blinded both subject groups and investigators, sufficient sample size, and an approved independent ethics committee and monitoring by data safety and monitoring board to have stronger the scientific validity on the clinical trials (Brody, 1997). The use of placebos will enable more scientifically reliable outcomes. However, unnecessarily or ineffectiveness of placebo use is also claimed, therefore considering appropriate conditions and suitable cases would be needed for placebo use. .
Music therapy is the use of music and or musical elements by a qualified music therapist with a client or group in a process designed to facilitate and promote communication, relationships, learning, expression, organization and other relevant therapeutic objects in offer to meet physical, emotional, mental, social, and cognitive needs. There are many things that make music therapy. A few elements that contribute to music therapy are tone, rhythm, harmony, melody, and timbre. There are many reason as to why people try music therapy. A few would be coping with illness, managing problems, and overcoming impairments. When someone is thinking about music therapy the first step is getting a bachelor’s degree. There is also places that will let you
There was never a question in my mind that music possesses a strong element to help people. It has always been a stress reliever in my life. There is research that supports the belief that music is an instrumental part or impact on a wider realm of physical and mental disorders or disabilities. Music is known to set the mood or atmosphere for all types of situations. There is extensive research completed on this subject.