What is music therapy?
Music therapy provides opportunities for development and change through a musical and interpersonal collaboration between therapist and client. The process is often resource-oriented and focused on current goals within health promotion, treatment, rehabilitation and care. Music, for example, can create new opportunities for communication and personal expression and work with social issues. As a discipline, music therapy is understood as the study of the relationship between music and health.
Who benefits from music therapy?
Children, adolescents, adults and elderly with mental health difficulties, with developmental challenges and learning disabilities, people with age-related disorders such as dementia, Parkinson’s and stroke, people with substance abuse problems, brain injuries, physical disabilities and other physical and mental illness benefit from music therapy.
Music therapists work in various fields, including arts, mental health care, hospitals, clinics, kindergartens, schools, child welfare, senior centers, nursing homes, hospice programs, prisons and private practice.
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