So this week I did a little more research on music and how it's used in therapy. But first I'm also gonna talk about the music survey thing that was on the blog 2 weeks ago and I just want to say I wasn't really impressed. If you don't remember or didn't read that post the survey was supposed to make a playlist for you that optimized studying. I don't know about anybody else but I found that the playlist it made for me only included one song I enjoyed and the other were rather... meh. It was also really short so I got bored listening to it. Overall I don't think the site made my best studying playlist. Anyway, moving on to this week. I drafted another 2 songs, and I really need someone to tell me that I should finish a song and stop just coming up with new partial songs, and I did research on music therapy. Music therapy is can help patients with autism to chronic pain to depression. Music therapist makes individualized plans for patients and they can choose from a large variety of music therapy styles. These include but aren't limited to: music improvisation, receptive music listening, song writing, lyric discussion, music performance, and movement to music. The therapy has two types, active and receptive. Active being singing or performing music while receptive is listening to music and analyzing lyrics. In music therapy secessions the to forms are normally combined and the client is allowed to pick the music and the therapist will introduce different music and together they attempt to make progress toward their goal. One thing that's important to note is that music therapy is not normally used as a stand-alone therapy and it is recommended that people use medication, physical therapy, and psychotherapy in conjunction with music therapy.
To look at studies about music therapy go HERE
Sites used
https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/music-therapy
https://www.musictherapy.org/about/scope_of_music_therapy_practice/
P.S. The new songs are called The Melody and Open Up.
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