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Certified Therapeutic Musicians are trained to offer music that benefits patients in the realms of comfort, pain management, vitals stabilization, end-of-life transition, and more. They use their training to thoughtfully adjust their style of playing to suit the needs of the patient in each moment.
Therapeutic Music is non-prescriptive, does not require active listening or interaction, and requires a certification. A Certified Therapeutic Musician uses the artistic application of the intrinsic elements of live music and sound to provide an environment conducive to the healing process.
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The National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians, https://www.nsbtm.org/, states “ The practice of the therapeutic musician is to use the intrinsic healing elements of live music and sound to provide an environment conducive to the human healing process.” This means that Certified Music Practitioners (CMPS), graduates from the Music for Heali...
Music Therapy is defined as “ the clinical & 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.” https://www.musictherapy.org/Music Therapists have a degree from an accredited college and are therapists. Th...
Since therapeutic musicians are trained to go into a room to help create a healing environment so that a patient’s body can become less stressed and perhaps go into the Relaxation Response, the patient participates by listening. When a music therapist goes into a patient’s room, the goal is to achieve a medical outcome, and the patient is very part...
Pleasecontact us if you’d like to learn more about the differences between live therapeutic music and music therapy. Barbara Lepke-Sims has over 10 years experience as a Certified Music Practitioner and has helped over 6 hospitals build their therapeutic music programs. Barbara Weiger Lepke-Sims of Sacred Spaceis a harpist, educator, live therapeut...
Musicians certified by an NSBTM-accredited program are qualified to offer Therapeutic Music in healthcare facilities, at the bedside of patients. This form of direct care through live music has various beneficial effects on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
The NSBTM provides guidelines for certification to assure the therapeutic musician training programs meet accreditation standards. Practitioners can be found under their respective program from which they graduated.
A Certified Therapeutic Musician provides live, therapeutic music at the bedside and refrains from soliciting the patient’s participation. Think of the difference between a physical therapist and a masseuse.
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As defined by the Canadian Association of Music Therapy (CAMT, September 2020), music therapy is a discipline in which Certified Music Therapists (MTAs) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being.
