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Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.
Music Therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. After assessing the strengths and needs of each client, the qualified music therapist provides the indicated treatment including creating, singing, moving to, or listening to music. Through musical involvement in the therapeutic context, clients' abilities are strengthened and transferred to other areas of their lives. Music therapy also provides avenues for communication that can be helpful to those who find it difficult to express themselves in words. Research in music therapy supports its effectiveness in many areas such as: overall 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.
Emergence and development of music therapy :
Ancient oriental music has been used in the Umayyad and Abbasi to treat patients and still exists so far in Morocco in Fas city stop special plays where one of the bands for recreation for people with mental illness and neurological, as Farabi important role in music therapy, has arrived in the science of the music industry and its work to the goals and mastered neater, as well as Ibn Sina in musical theories excelled both theoretically and practically, and dealt with in several books, his book (healing) is a summary of what was in the music of healing .
Treatment began with music in the twentieth century after the First and Second World Wars, as he used a number of musicians to go to hospitals to play music tracks for patients who are victims of wars origin of the first program in the world to grant a degree in music therapy at the University of Michigan in 4491 AD, and then spread music therapy and it became an independent note itself taught in specialized institutes, and so he moved it from mere entertainment to the actual treatment of some cases has resulted in the development of science and practice to open a music therapy centers in Norway and the rest of Europe.
Curriculum and therapeutic methods, including:
1 Improvisational Music Therapy
The style of it Nordoff – Robbins and other methods . The philosophy of those methods to stimulate the responses of the patient's actions at all levels. And based on the contact person in the context of the musical experience .
2 Singing and Discussion
It is a typical method used in psychotherapy, in the treatment of adolescents and older problems, and is based on stimulating the sick person or the owner of the problem to respond to pieces of poetry and music, so to express their thoughts and feelings that provoke the songs and tones.
3 Guided Imagery and Music
It is a technique based on listening to classical music accompanied by a state of mental and physical relaxation; to stimulate the graphic descriptions in order to reach self-fact.
4 Clinical Orff Schulwerk
it is used to help in dealing with children who suffer from mental disabilities through the use of movement and rhythm, sounds and language and musical expression in the collective frameworks.
5 Rythmic Entrainment Intervention
It is a treatment program that uses music rhythmically complex rhythmic patterns; to stimulate the central nervous system to assist in the improvement of behavioral and cognitive long-term in people who suffer from a biological nervous disorders.
The development of science and practice to open several centers for music therapy in several cities in Norway, Scandinavia and Europe and to help the disabled and those who suffer from some psychological problems or mental health has led.
Experiences and opinions of music therapy :
Some experts say that music has an important therapeutic attributes where it can be by learning some musical skills into the community in a positive, you see Dr. Fadwa Moroccan, a professor of psychology diversity in the UAE University The scientific fact known stresses that the responsibility to understand and absorb the music lies in the right half of the the brain is no doubt that some areas in the brain if provoked by active listening to music through biological interactions Whenever raised those areas got a positive development.
She pointed out that music therapies useful in psychiatric cases , instrumentals that give rise to some feeling active brain, listening to music reduces stress, anxiety, and helps with pain in some diseases control.
Dr. Mohammad Omar Salim , a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, UAE University says that the combination of aesthetic vision and the music helps people with certain medical conditions. The human body when listening to music produces a Alondrofenat material Almilanonan , which caused a state of calm and relaxation and a feeling of happiness, while the secretion of depression and in charge of your hormone Alkatizul hormone decreases, which helps to strengthen the body's immunity.