Kennedy Harkins's List: Musical Therapy

• herapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals.
• treatment including creating, singing, moving to, and/or listening to music. T
• communication that can be helpful to those who find it difficult to express themselves in words.
• verall physical rehabilitation and facilitating movement, increasing people's motivation to become engaged in their treatment, providing emotional support for clients and their families, and providing an outlet for expression of feelings.

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• "neurological music therapy" (NMT)
• NMT studies how the brain is without music, how the brain is with music, measures the differences, and uses these differences to cause changes in the brain through music that will eventually affect the client non-musically
• Music therapy can help children with communication, attention, motivation, and behavioral problems.
• In fact according to Daniel Levitin, it started inside the womb, surrounded by amniotic fluid, the fetus hears sounds. It hears the mother’s heartbeat, at times speed up, at other times slow down, not only that but other music, conversations, and environmental noises
• The auditory system of the fetus is fully functional about twenty weeks after conception.
• 100,000 adolescents, two to three thousand will have mood disorders, out of which 8-10 will commit suicide. Two prevalent mood disorders in the adolescent population are clinical depression and bipolar disorder.
• 4.5 hours of music per day
• one’s own self-discovery and sense of identity
• “Music Therapy Assessment for Emotionally Disturbed Children.”
• behavioral disorders, schizophrenia, affective/mood disorders, autism, anxiety disorders, and attachment disorders.
• Beech Brook Music Therapy Assessment
• ssessment measures the patient’s behavioral and social functioning, emotional responsiveness, language and communication skills, and musical skills.
• and focuses more on the reasons for referral than the previously mentioned assessment
• uses a quantitative numbered scoring system in which the total score indicates an overall trend of behavior exhibited by a client
• three distinct categories: behavioral disorders, emotional disorders, and developmental disorders.
• improving quality of life and building self-esteem, a sense self-worth, and confidence
• qualitative questionnaires like Beck’s Depression Inventory, State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Relationship Change Scale.
• Effects of music therapy can also be observed in the patient’s demeanor, body language, and changes in awareness of mood.
• As stroke therapy

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