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Internet Address: http://www.erols.com/leopold/music.ntm#Researching
Title: Team of Researchers Reach Depressed Youths Through Music Therapy
Author: Peter Guerra
This article focuses on the adolescent and describes a research study that targeted them. The author emphasizes that the most important role of this therapy is to produce a bridge between the communication gaps between adolescents and adults. This particular study shows how the youths were able to express their own emotions and thoughts through something they could relate to: music.
Internet Address: http://stc.itec.suny.edu/Students/Bio380/TermPapers/BezioFlinton/Termpaper.htm
Title: Therapeutic Uses of Music
Authors: Jennifer Bezio and Donald Flinton
Internet Address: http://hometown.aol.com/drjnh/pdt.htm
Internet Address: http://www.mhsource.com/edu/psytimes/p990246.html
Author: Katherine A. Lindberg
This site contains information about how Music Therapy is used with mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder. It is helpful when looking for specific goals, implications, and considerations when working with patients with mental illnesses. The site lists types of musical activities that can be used when working with the patients.
Internet Address: http://www.napanet/~mmst/massage.html
Authors: Elke Macartney and Wynn Thomas
Musical massage sound therapy is used to induce resonance and harmonies. This article describes therapy's origin, and analyze the effect music has on the body. MMST brings a state of harmony and balance to the patient and gives a sense of calmness and inner peace through different music tapes. All these goals represent areas that those with mania are trying to accomplish. Varying instruments are used in the therapy, including flute and strings (especially cello). A description of how to use each instrument therapeutically is included.
Internet Address: http://www.napanet/~mmst/intuitives.html
Internet Address: http://www.mit.edu/people/mheather/music.htm
Title: Music
Author: Heather Mitchell
The author of this website writes about her research using music therapy with depressed patients. The subjects were given a CD and a checklist to complete after they had finished the CD listening session. She offers a copy of her undergraduate thesis on this topic fordownloading.
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/methods.html
2 pages viewed on April 20, 1997 (1997)
This article explained different methods that can be used in music therapy. The first model given was the improvisational music therapy. Names of a few styles of improvisation are given along with an explanation that music enhances the client's responses and helps clients express feelings and emotions. The second model involved singing and discussions that can be used for psychiatric work. Songs are sung and then the lyrics are discussed. To conclude this model, the client's own words are replaced into the song. The third model was Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a technique in which the client listens to classical music which evokes images. The theory for this approach is to develop understanding of one's own problems. The last model discussed was Clinical Orff Schulwerk (COS) which is frequently used with retarded and autistic children.
Internet Address: http://kspace.com/KM/music.sys/harris/pages/title.html
Title: Healing Power of Music
Author: Al Harris
This website explores the many different ways that music serves as a therapeutic tool. The author has released two cassettes of music for use on improving the mood state and clarity of thinking in the listener.
Internet Address: http://152.2.22.81/ranjit/imh-95.html
Title: “Institute for Music and Healing”
This article discusses music therapy that takes place in the Institute for Music and Healinglocated in a suburb of Philadelphia. It provides some history about music therapy and some information on a conference that was held at the Institute. The article explains how clients can use music and sounds to work on imagery. This structure enables a client can look at his or her childhood or re-examine stressful encounters.
Internet Address: http://www.somethinghigher.com/welcome.html
The musical work of Allen Jay Friedman is described as inspirational and uplifting, transcending us to the next realm. His music is portrayed as soothing to the soul and is said to empower us to a better life.
Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/
Relaxation Music for Stress Management, Anxiety and Depression. Collage by Michel Brayan.
Music to reduce and manage Stress, Anxiety & Depression is described as calming. Therapeutic relaxation cds and cassette tapes for alternative healing and mind massage are included.
Internet Address: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/12_98b/focus/he/he0412_1.htm
NewsWeek
Music is Good Medicine
Researchers have long known that listening to music can directly influence pulse, blood pressure and the electrical activity of muscles. Neuroscientists now suspect that music can actually help build and strengthen connections among nerve cells in the cerebral cortex.
Internet Address: http://www.healthpropress.com/CATALOG/LTC Books/Clairmain.html
Alicia Ann Clair
Therapeutic Uses of Music with Older Adults by Alicia Ann Clair, Ph.D., MT-BC, Professor and Director of Music at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and research associate in gerontology at the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is . In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimers. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis.
Adults
Internet Address: http://www.bio-medical.com/ABS_GIM.html
Title: Effects of Guided Imagery and Music Therapy on Mood and Cortisol in Healthy Adults
Author: McKinney, CH., Antoni, MH., Kumar, M., Tims, FC., and McCave, PM.
This short web page describes an experiment that examined the effects of music therapy and guided imagery on healthy adults. It describes the many different changes that resulted from the patients in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is . In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimers. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis and is also used.
Assessment
Internet Address: http:/www.members.aol.com/Kathysl/mi.html
Music Therapy and Mental Illness
This site contains information about how Music Therapy is used with mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder. It is helpful when looking for specific goals, implications, and considerations when working with patients with mental illnesses. The site lists types of musical activities that can be used when working with the patients.
Internet Address: http://www.depression.com/health_library/types/types_05_bipolar.html
Internet Address: http://stc.itec.suny.edu/Students/Bio380/TermPapers/BezioFlinton/Termpaper.htm
Title: Therapeutic Uses of Music
Authors: Jennifer Bezio and Donald Flinton
This site contains general information about music therapy. It gives a background to various applications of music therapy, including its effect on those with depression. Information about how therapy can be specifically used with children can also be found here.
Benefits
Internet Address: http://stc.itec.suny.edu/Students/Bio380/TermPapers/BezioFlinton/Termpaper.htm
This site contains general information about music therapy. It gives a background to various applications of music therapy, including its effect on those with depression. Information about how therapy can be specifically used with children can also be found here.
Internet Address: http://www.wfla.com/health/307.htm
Author: Irene Maher
This web site is a great description of music therapy and it's effects on the elderly. The benefits of music and music therapy with depressed elderly are described. This site references two additional websites and a mailing address that are available for additional information.
Internet Address: http://www.bio-medical.com/ABS_GIM.html
Author: McKinney, CH., Antoni, MH., Kumar, M., Tims, FC., and McCave, PM.
This short web page describes an experiment that examined the effects of music therapy and guided imagery on healthy adults. It describes the many different changes that resulted from the patients in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/princip.html
Title: “General Guidelines and Principles of Music Therapy”
2 pages viewed on April 27, 1997 (1997)
This article lists reasons why music helps, even when other methods do not. It also gives examples of some of the ways music helps in healing. Music exists in all cultures and music allows for entertainment. Music triggers memory and music allows for emotional expression.
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/priincip.html
Title: “Music Therapy Principles”
5 pages viewed on April 20, 1997 (1997)
Two former heads of the music therapy department at the University of Kansas give their views on the principles of music therapy. E. Thayer Gaston explains that music helps a person express him/herself without using words. It creates a social atmosphere and a feeling of acceptance. Music is an energizer and gives a person a sense of accomplishment. William Sears explains that music demands continuous behavior because the music can not take a break. Music is based on time order. Music can be based on mood and motivation, and help a client reach and maintain a more desirable psychological level. Music can bring out ideas or pictures outside of the “norm” and music can remind an individual of healthy behavior. Music allows for self expression that may otherwise come out in other, less appropriate ways. It can also bring out feelings that a patient would not otherwise express.
Internet Address: http://www.kumc.edu/rainbow/mt2.html
Title: “Music Therapy at Rainbow”
1 pages viewed on April 29, 1997 (1997)
The Music Therapists of RMHF discuss its philosophy and goals of music therapy. They believe music therapy can help improve or establish good interpersonal skills and express feelings. They also believe music can help people orient to reality.
Internet Address: http://www.somethinghigher.com/welcome.html
The musical work of Allen Jay Friedman is described as inspirational and uplifting, transcending us to the next realm. His music is portrayed as soothing to the soul and is said to empower us to a better life
Bipolar
Internet Address: http://www.mhsource.com/edu/psytimes/p990246.html
Article: Music Therapy for Inpatient Psychiatric Care
Author: Carol L Shultis, M.E.D, MT-B
This article describes how to deal with psychiatric patients and gives information on stress management, activities to improve sleeping habits, and also discusses how to establish contacts with reality and develop relaxation skills. It explains how different rhythms affect the brain and reports that single individual sessions are often successful with this group of people. This article would be helpful for music therapists who work with manic patients who have been placed into medical care facilities. It may especially be helpful to them for ideas about how to work with severe cases.
Internet Address: http://www.ndmda.org/rapid.htm
Article: Bipolar Disorder: Rapid Cycling and it's Treatment
Author: Dr. Joseph R. Calabrese
This article explains rapid cycling (a form of bipolar depression in which 4 or more manic episodes occur within 12 months) and describes associated symptoms. It lists support groups as resources for more locating information and descriptions of varying treatments that can be used. This site is a great resource for music therapists who are interested in learning more about severe manic patients to help design effective treatment programs for them.
Internet Address: http://www.members.aol.com/Kathysl/mi.html
Article: Music Therapy and Mental Illness
Author: Katherine A. Lindberg
This site contains information about how Music Therapy is used with mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder. It is helpful when looking for specific goals, implications, and considerations when working with patients with mental illnesses. The site lists types of musical activities that can be used when working with the patients.
Internet Address: http://www.depression.com/health_library/types/types_05_bipolar.html
Article: Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
This article presents information on the symptoms of bipolar disorder and describes the effect the disorder has on the personality. Each individual has unique symptoms. This site can be used to determine which program best matches the needs of the individual.
Internet Address: http://www.napanet/~mmst/massage.html
Article: Musical Massage Sound Therapy
Authors: Elke Macartney and Wynn Thomas
Musical massage sound therapy is used to induce resonance and harmonies. This article describes therapy's origin, and analyze the effect music has on the body. MMST brings a state of harmony and balance to the patient and gives a sense of calmness and inner peace through different music tapes. All these goals represent areas that those with mania are trying to accomplish. Varying instruments are used in the therapy, including flute and strings (especially cello). A description of how to use each instrument therapeutically is included.
Internet Address: http://www.napanet/~mmst/intuitives.html
Article: Musical Massage Sound Therapy
Authors: Elke Macartney and Wynn Thomas
Musical massage sound therapy is used to induce resonance and harmonies. This article describes therapy's origin, and analyze the effect music has on the body. MMST brings a state of harmony and balance to the patient and gives a sense of calmness and inner peace through different music tapes. All these goals represent areas that those with mania are trying to accomplish. Varying instruments are used in the therapy, including flute and strings (especially cello). A description of how to use each instrument therapeutically is included.
Characteristics
Internet Address: http://www.depression.com/
Title: Depression in Teens
This article focuses on depression in the adolescent age group. It includes possible causes, treatments, and warning signs. The fact that depression in teens can often be masked is stressed along with the importance of taking teenagers seriously if signs are shown of mood changes and drastic changes in their routines.
Internet Address: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/dart/index.htm
Title:D/ART Depression/ Awareness, Recognition and Treatment
This site gives general information about depression. It contains sections about various special treatments of depression. Along with its general depression facts are focuses on certain groups that can be affected, such as adolescents, students, and the elderly.
Internet Address: http://www.ndmda.org/rapid.htm
Article: Bipolar Disorder: Rapid Cycling and it's Treatment
Author: Dr. Joseph R. Calabrese
This article explains rapid cycling (a form of bipolar depression in which 4 or more manic episodes occur within 12 months) and describes associated symptoms. It lists support groups as resources for more locating information and descriptions of varying treatments that can be used. This site is a great resource for music therapists who are interested in learning more about severe manic patients to help design effective treatment programs for them
Internet Address: http://www.depression.com/health_library/types/types_05_bipolar.html
Article: Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
This article presents information on the symptoms of bipolar disorder and describes the effect the disorder has on the personality. Each individual has unique symptoms. This site can be used to determine which program best matches the needs of the individual.
Children
Internet Address: http://www.erols.com/leopold/music.ntm#Researching
Title: Team of Researchers Reach Depressed Youths Through Music Therapy
Author: Peter Guerra
This article focuses on the adolescent and describes a research study that targeted them. The author emphasizes that the most important role of this therapy is to produce a bridge between the communication gaps between adolescents and adults. This particular study shows how the youths were able to express their own emotions and thoughts through something they could relate to: music.
Internet Address: http://stc.itec.suny.edu/Students/Bio380/TermPapers/BezioFlinton/Termpaper.htm
Title: Therapeutic Uses of Music
Authors: Jennifer Bezio and Donald Flinton
This site contains general information about music therapy. It gives a background to various applications of music therapy, including its effect on those with depression. Information about how therapy can be specifically used with children can also be found here.
Internet Address: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/dart/index.htm
Title: D/ART Depression/ Awareness, Recognition and Treatment
This site gives general information about depression. It contains sections about various special treatments of depression. Along with its general depression facts are focuses on certain groups that can be affected, such as adolescents, students, and the elderly.
Internet Address: http://www.depression.com/
Title: Depression in Teens
This article focuses on depression in the adolescent age group. It includes possible causes, treatments, and warning signs. The fact that depression in teens can often be masked is stressed along with the importance of taking teenagers seriously if signs are shown of mood changes and drastic changes in their routines.
Internet Address: http://hometown.aol.com/drjnh/pdt.htm
Title: Music as Therapy
Author: Selina I. Glater, M.A., RMT
Included in this site is the author’s own personal experience of using music therapy with a patient, including history, background, treatment methods and phases of treatment on her patient. The emphasis in this article is on the relationship between the therapist and the patient. She includes a set of circumstances and interventions showing the promising results with a very ill and difficult patient.
Internet Address: http://152.2.22.81/ranjit/imh-95.html
Title: “Institute for Music and Healing”
This article discusses music therapy that takes place in the Institute for Music and Healing located in a suburb of Philadelphia. It provides some history about music therapy and some information on a conference that was held at the Institute. The article explains how clients can use music and sounds to work on imagery. This structure enables a client can look at his or her childhood or re-examine stressful encounters.
Internet Address: http://www.healthpropress.com/CATALOG/LTC Books/Clairmain.html
Alicia Ann Clair
Therapeutic Uses of Music with Older Adults by Alicia Ann Clair, Ph.D., MT-BC, Professor and Director of Music at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and research associate in gerontology at the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is . In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimers. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis and is also used in the .
Emotional Status
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/methods.html
Title: “Music Therapy Methods”
This article explained different methods that can be used in music therapy. The first model given was the improvisational music therapy. Names of a few styles of improvisation are given along with an explanation that music enhances the client's responses and helps clients express feelings and emotions. The second model involved singing and discussions that can be used for psychiatric work. Songs are sung and then the lyrics are discussed. To conclude this model, the client's own words are replaced into the song. The third model was Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a technique in which the client listens to classical music which evokes images. The theory for this approach is to develop understanding of one's own problems. The last model discussed was Clinical Orff Schulwerk (COS) which is frequently used with retarded and autistic children.
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/princip.html
Title: “General Guidelines and Principles of Music Therapy”
2 pages viewed on April 27, 1997 (1997)
This article lists reasons why music helps, even when other methods do not. It also gives examples of some of the ways music helps in healing. Music exists in all cultures and music allows for entertainment. Music triggers memory and music allows for emotional expression.
Internet Address: http://www.kumc.edu/rainbow/mt2.html
Title: “Music Therapy at Rainbow”
1 pages viewed on April 29, 1997 (1997)
The Music Therapists of RMHF discuss its philosophy and goals of music therapy. They believe music therapy can help improve or establish good interpersonal skills and express feelings. They also believe music can help people orient to reality.
Internet Address: http://www.somethinghigher.com/welcome.html
Allan Jay Friedman
The musical work of Allen Jay Friedman is described as inspirational and uplifting, transcending us to the next realm. His music is portrayed as soothing to the soul and is said to empower us to a better life.
Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/
Michel Bayan
Relaxation Music for Stress Management, Anxiety and Depression. Collage by Michel Brayan.
Music to reduce and manage Stress, Anxiety & Depression is described as calming. Therapeutic relaxation cds and cassette tapes for alternative healing and mind massage are included.
Internet Address: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/12_98b/focus/he/he0412_1.htm
NewsWeek
Music is Good Medicine
Researchers have long known that listening to music can directly influence pulse, blood pressure and the electrical activity of muscles. Neuroscientists now suspect that music can actually help build and strengthen connections among nerve cells in the cerebral cortex.
Internet Address: http://www.healthpropress.com/CATALOG/LTC Books/Clairmain.html
Alicia Ann Clair
Therapeutic Uses of Music with Older Adults by Alicia Ann Clair, Ph.D., MT-BC, Professor and Director of Music at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and research associate in gerontology at the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is . In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer’s. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis and is also used in the.
Family
Internet Address: http://www.erols.com/leopold/music.ntm#Researching
Title: Team of Researchers Reach Depressed Youths Through Music Therapy
Author: Peter Guerra
This article focuses on the adolescent and describes a research study that targeted them. The author emphasizes that the most important role of this therapy is to produce a bridge between the communication gaps between adolescents and adults. This particular study shows how the youths were able to express their own emotions and thoughts through something they could relate to: music.
Geriatrics
Internet Address: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/dart/index.htm
Title: D/ART Depression/ Awareness, Recognition and Treatment
This site gives general information about depression. It contains sections about various special treatments of depression. Along with its general depression facts are focuses on certain groups that can be affected, such as adolescents, students, and the elderly.
Internet Address: http://www.wfla.com/health/307.htm
Internet Address: http://www.healthpropress.com/CATALOG/LTC Books/Clairmain.html
Alicia Ann Clair
Therapeutic Uses of Music with Older Adults by Alicia Ann Clair, Ph.D., MT-BC, Professor and Director of Music at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and research associate in gerontology at the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is . In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimers. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis.
Lyric Analysis
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/methods.html
Title: “Music Therapy Methods”
This article explained different methods that can be used in music therapy. The first model given was the improvisational music therapy. Names of a few styles of improvisation are given along with an explanation that music enhances the client's responses and helps clients express feelings and emotions. The second model involved singing and discussions that can be used for psychiatric work. Songs are sung and then the lyrics are discussed. To conclude this model, the client's own words are replaced into the song. The third model was Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a technique in which the client listens to classical music which evokes images. The theory for this approach is to develop understanding of one's own problems. The last model discussed was Clinical Orff Schulwerk (COS) which is frequently used with retarded and autistic children.
Medical Effects
Internet Address: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/12_98b/focus/he/he0412_1.htm
NewsWeek
Music is Good Medicine
Researchers have long known that listening to music can directly influence pulse, blood pressure and the electrical activity of muscles. Neuroscientists now suspect that music can actually help build and strengthen connections among nerve cells in the cerebral cortex.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is . In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimers. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis.
Stress Management & Relaxation
Internet Address: http://www.mhsource.com/edu/psytimes/p990246.html
Article: Music Therapy for Inpatient Psychiatric Care
Author: Carol L Shultis, M.E.D, MT-BC
This article describes how to deal with psychiatric patients and gives information on stress management, activities to improve sleeping habits, and also discusses how to establish contacts with reality and develop relaxation skills. It explains how different rhythms affect the brain and reports that single individual sessions are often successful with this group of people. This article would be helpful for music therapists who work with manic patients who have been placed into medical care facilities. It may especially be helpful to them for ideas about how to work with severe cases.
Internet Address: http://www.napanet/~mmst/massage.html
Article: Musical Massage Sound Therapy
Authors: Elke Macartney and Wynn Thomas
Musical massage sound therapy is used to induce resonance and harmonies. This article describes therapy's origin, and analyze the effect music has on the body. MMST brings a state of harmony and balance to the patient and gives a sense of calmness and inner peace through different music tapes. All these goals represent areas that those with mania are trying to accomplish. Varying instruments are used in the therapy, including flute and strings (especially cello). A description of how to use each instrument therapeutically is included.
Internet Address: http://www.napanet/~mmst/intuitives.html
Article: Musical Massage Sound Therapy
Authors: Elke Macartney and Wynn Thomas
Musical massage sound therapy is used to induce resonance and harmonies. This article describes therapy's origin, and analyze the effect music has on the body. MMST brings a state of harmony and balance to the patient and gives a sense of calmness and inner peace through different music tapes. All these goals represent areas that those with mania are trying to accomplish. Varying instruments are used in the therapy, including flute and strings (especially cello). A description of how to use each instrument therapeutically is included.
Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/
Relaxation Music for Stress Management, Anxiety and Depression. Collage by Michel Brayan.
Music to reduce and manage Stress, Anxiety & Depression is described as calming. Therapeutic relaxation cds and cassette tapes for alternative healing and mind massage are included.
Research (Family)
Internet Address: http://www.erols.com/leopold/music.ntm#Researching
Title: Team of Researchers Reach Depressed Youths Through Music Therapy
Author: Peter Guerra
This article focuses on the adolescent and describes a research study that targeted them. The author emphasizes that the most important role of this therapy is to produce a bridge between the communication gaps between adolescents and adults. This particular study shows how the youths were able to express their own emotions and thoughts through something they could relate to: music.
Internet Address: http://www.ndmda.org/rapid.htm
Article: Bipolar Disorder: Rapid Cycling and it's Treatment
Author: Dr. Joseph R. Calabrese
This article explains rapid cycling (a form of bipolar depression in which 4 or more manic episodes occur within 12 months) and describes associated symptoms. It lists support groups as resources for more locating information and descriptions of varying treatments that can be used. This site is a great resource for music therapists who are interested in learning more about severe manic patients to help design effective treatment programs for them.
Internet Address: http://www.mit.edu/people/mheather/music.htm
Title: Music
Author: Heather Mitchell
The author of this website writes about her research using music therapy with depressed patients. The subjects were given a CD and a checklist to complete after they had finished the CD listening session. She offers a copy of her undergraduate thesis on this topic for downloading.
Internet Address: http://www.healey.com.au/~jazzem/arti.html
Title: Music and Healing
Author: Margaret Brandman
This website is written from a music teacher's point of view concerning her students and her ways of teaching. The author gives detailed explanations about music and development of her students. She describes music therapy sessions as lead by Dr. Alfred Tomatis and presents the conclusions that he has reached through his research.
Internet Address:
http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/methods.html
Title: “Music Therapy Methods” Address:
2 pages viewed on April 20, 1997 (1997)
This article explained different methods that can be used in music therapy. The first model given was the improvisational music therapy. Names of a few styles of improvisation are given along with an explanation that music enhances the client's responses and helps clients express feelings and emotions. The second model involved singing and discussions that can be used for psychiatric work. Songs are sung and then the lyrics are discussed. To conclude this model, the client's own words are replaced into the song. The third model was Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a technique in which the client listens to classical music which evokes images. The theory for this approach is to develop understanding of one's own problems. The last model discussed was Clinical Orff Schulwerk (COS) which is frequently used with retarded and autistic children.
Social
Internet Address: http://www.warchild.org/projects/centre/priincip.html
5 pages viewed on April 20, 1997 (1997)
Two former heads of the music therapy department at the University of Kansas give their views on the principles of music therapy. E. Thayer Gaston explains that music helps a person express him/herself without using words. It creates a social atmosphere and a feeling of acceptance. Music is an energizer and gives a person a sense of accomplishment. William Sears explains that music demands continuous behavior because the music can not take a break. Music is based on time order. Music can be based on mood and motivation, and help a client reach and maintain a more desirable psychological level. Music can bring out ideas or pictures outside of the “norm” and music can remind an individual of healthy behavior. Music allows for self expression that may otherwise come out in other, less appropriate ways. It can also bring out feelings that a patient would not otherwise express.
Internet Address: http://www.kumc.edu/rainbow/mt2.htmlwww.kumc.edu/rainbow/mt2.html
1 pages viewed on April 29, 1997 (1997)
The Music Therapists of RMHF discuss its philosophy and goals of music therapy. They believe music therapy can help improve or establish good interpersonal skills and express feelings. They also believe music can help people orient to reality.
Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/
Michel Bayan
Relaxation Music for Stress Management, Anxiety and Depression.
Collage by Michel Brayan.
Music to reduce and manage Stress, Anxiety & Depression is described as calming. Therapeutic relaxation cds and cassette tapes for alternative healing and mind massage are included.
Internet Address: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/12_98b/focus/he/he0412_1.htm
NewsWeek Music is Good Medicine
Researchers have long known that listening to music can directly influence pulse, blood pressure and the electrical activity of muscles. Neuroscientists now suspect that music can actually help build and strengthen connections among nerve cells in the cerebral cortex.
Internet Address: http://www.healthpropress.com/CATALOG/LTC Books/Clairmain.html
Therapeutic Uses of Music with Older Adults by Alicia Ann Clair, Ph.D., MT-BC, Professor and Director of Music at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and research associate in gerontology at the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Internet Address: http://www.augsburg.edu/psych/vml/mucic_therapy.html
Leslie Lucas, Shannon Moen, and Joe Stanton
Music therapy can be used with a variety of people and in many facets of life. One of the main benefits of music therapy is. In one study it was shown that music therapy can help to lift one's mood, alleviate stress, lessen fatigue, and help depression. It has been used in to alleviate their unnecessary fears and stimulate --it provides a stimulus to which they all respond, or in other words it puts them all on the same level. Music therapy has also been used in to change negative behaviors and promote social learning. It helps prison inmates to see the world in a new light and aids in developing self-esteem. It is used with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer’s. Music therapy is used to help people regain their health or homeostasis.