Search results for "Music therapy."

Adolescents’ musical relaxation: understanding related affective processing

2017

Music listening promotes adolescents’ well-being and relaxation in daily life. Relaxation is linked to affective self-regulation, but little is known about the specific affective processes of musical relaxation. The current study aimed to elaborate the affective dimension of adolescents’ musical relaxation, through detailed exploration of the related affect regulation goals, strategies, and induction mechanisms. A qualitative study with 55 adolescents (42 girls, 13 boys), aged 15, was conducted. Participants listened to self-selected relaxation music for 20 min, once in a laboratory and once at home, and provided written descriptions of their experience. A total of 110 episode descriptions …

Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP): Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome

2022

Successful emotional processing is pivotal for the therapeutic change, and music can support emotional processing. However, we know little on how music-based emotional processing actually predicts clinical outcomes. This study investigated music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP) as a predictor of therapeutic outcome in treatment for depression. Data consisted of self-reports of 64 clients (age range 19–57, 74% female) from a clinical trial (12 sessions) of integrative improvisational music therapy (IIMT). A 19-item MEP questionnaire was developed for assessing clients’ experiences after sessions. Emergent MEP factors were correlated with clients’ perceptions of the therapeutic value o…

Therapeutic Benefits of Music-Based Synchronous Finger Tapping In Parkinson’s Disease – an fNIRS Study Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trial in Da…

2020

Abstract Background: Music therapy improves neuronal activity and connectivity of healthy persons and patients with clinical symptoms of neurological diseases like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Major Depression. Despite the plethora of publications that have reported the positive effects of music interventions, little is known about how music improves neuronal activity and connectivity in afflicted patients.Methods: For patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease (PD), we propose a daily 25-minute music-based synchronous finger tapping (SFT) intervention for 8-weeks. Eligible participants with PD are split into two groups: an intervention group and a control arm. In addition…

Implementing improvisation and songwriting to aid the transition to adulthood for adolelescents with special needs : a case study

2016

Adolescence is a transitional period with many developmental tasks. The adolescents need to resolve the specific question of career choice and establishing authentic friendships. Transition to adulthood is often challenging to the adolescents with special education needs. Research has shown that music can serve as a medium for adolescents’ emotional self-regulation, peer-group affiliation and identity formation. The aim of this case study was to investigate a group music therapy process in which creative music making was utilized. Five adolescents with special education needs participated the sessions during which a group composition was produced. The sessions and the music were recorded an…

Importance of music for and in the training of the physiotherapist

2021

espanolResumen Introduccion: son muchos los especialistas de Ciencias de la Salud que han demostrado lo interesante y significativo de utilizar la Musica en sus tratamientos terapeuticos. No obstante, en Espana, solo una universidad publica cuenta con formacion musical para capacitarlos en su utilizacion. Objetivo: esta investigacion intento demostrar la necesidad de formacion musical desde el Grado de Fisioterapia, a traves de propuestas de Movimiento con Musica desde la perspectiva dalcroziana. Materiales y metodos: se realizaron una serie de practicas de concienciacion corporal con Musica, atendiendo al trabajo de distintos elementos musicales y partiendo de las propuestas de Jaques-Dalc…

Impact of BMGIM Music Therapy on Emotional State in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2021

Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/8/1591 En este artículo de investigación también participan: María Josefa-Rodríguez-Morales, Ana Monzó-Gallego, José Luis Platero Armero y José Enrique de la Rubia Ortí. Este artículo pertenece al número especial "Novel Insight into the Diagnosis and Management of Crohn?s Disease". Background. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a high prevalence of emotional disturbances which worsen the symptoms of the disease. As a therapeutic alternative that is part of a comprehensive care alongside medication, the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM) music-assisted therapy has achie…

The role of music therapy in the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities suffering from mental health issues

2016

Mental health issues are more common among people with intellectual disabilities than among others. Therefore, more research is needed on this topic. The main concepts of the present study – intellectual disability, mental disorders, and music therapy – are defined. The aim of this qualitative semi-structured interview study was to discover how the mental health issues of people with intellectual disabilities affect their daily life. Furthermore, the objective was to find out, whether the mental health issues persons with intellectual disabilities suffer from could be eased by using music therapy, and what music therapy methods are used when treating this group of clients. Music therapists …

Storycomposing as a path to a child's inner world: a collaborative music therapy experiment with a child co-researcher.

2013

"Lauletaan vaan yhdessä, pojat!" : musiikki ja identiteetti sotiemme veteraanien ryhmämusiikkiterapiassa - etnografis-narratiivinen tutkimus

2016

Studies concerning music and identity have shown that the music which an individual values as important tells stories about the subjective reality of the individual (Lehtonen & Niemelä 1997; Baker & Wigram 2004). Through the use of individualized meaningful music in music therapy, a possibility for raising and evaluating processes connected with identity can be created (Magee & Davidson 2004b). Even recent brain studies have shown these connections. When meaningful music is used activity is observed within deep parts of the brain, suggesting a connection between contextualized meaningful music and activity in the brain where the pleasure and the autobiographical memory centers exist (Buruna…

Professional Competences of Music Therapists Working in Post-stroke Rehabilitation

2012

The aim of this qualitative study is to gain more insight into the skills and knowledge that music therapists feel they need, in order to work successfully with people who have had an acute stroke. For this purpose, six music therapists were interviewed about their own particular specialist education. Another interview topic for them was to recount their subjective experiences of poststroke rehabilitation work in hospitals and health care units during the course of two projects that they participated in. The first was a project that specifically used music listening during acute stroke rehabilitation; and the second was a project, which used more active music therapy techniques, like drummi…