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music therapy
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use of music as an adjunctive therapy in the treatment of neurological, mental, or behavioral disorders
Key facts
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Research
11,019 papers- Music therapy for stress reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Health psychology review · 2022
- Music as therapy.Southern medical journal · 2005
- Neurologic Music Therapy's Impact on Neurological Disorders.Journal of neuroscience research · 2024
- The future of music in therapy and medicine.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2005
- Music as therapy in early history.Progress in brain research · 2015
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Encyclopedic overview
Music therapy is the use of music in a clinical setting to accomplish therapeutic goals. " Music therapists are generally trained musicians who have completed an accredited music therapy program. Although music therapy has been established as a profession only relatively recently, the connection between music and therapy is not new.
Music therapy is a broad field. Music therapists use music-based experiences to address client needs in one or more domains of human functioning: cognitive, academic, emotional/psychological; behavioral; communication; social; physiological (sensory, motor, pain, neurological and other physical systems), spiritual, or aesthetics. Music experiences are strategically designed to use the elements of music for therapeutic effects, including melody, harmony, key, mode, meter, rhythm, pitch/range, duration, timbre, form, texture, and instrumentation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “music therapy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.