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Music Therapy is an evidence-based type of therapy that can help people with a wide range of conditions. In this video, we look specifically at how it can help children and young people with...
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Jun 20, 2023 · Listen to the episode to learn about how music affects communication and literacy, what’s happening in their lives and in their brains when someone is singing and sharing music with them, and...
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Oct 9, 2023 · The use of music therapy techniques has recently extended into the educational realm to help overcome learning difficulties, support emotional management, and assist students to develop necessary social skills. This is known as educational music therapy (EMT).
- Mood: Improving Mood and Calming The Nervous System
- Coping: Learning to Regulate Emotions and Cope with Challenge
- Confidence: Building Confidence and Self-Esteem
- Expression: Encouraging Self-Expression and Processing of Emotions
- Social Intelligence: Developing Social and Emotional Intelligence
- Connection: Connecting with Others: Creating Social Bonds and Community
- Learning: Learning to Learn (Metacognition) & Self-Assess
- Resilience: Finally, Strengthening Brains For Lifelong Resilience
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The most well-known benefit of music is that it’s a powerful tool for improving mood: whether it’s singing and songwriting, music producing, or playing an instrument. Music can reach us and prompt emotions and feelings in ways that no other activity can. It can take us out of ourselves, help us get into a state of ‘flow’ and focused attention, and ...
Making music takes practice, and involves taking risks, failing and persisting in the face of challenge. The more you try, fail and pick yourself up, the more you are learning how to regulate your emotions, cope with challenge and believe in your own abilities to succeed (self-efficacy). This is part of what is called ‘executive functioning’—which ...
By providing positive challenge and encouraging a young person out of their comfort zone, music can bring growth and build confidence and self-esteem. Performing with and in front of other people is of course a big part of that, and that’s one of the many reasons why making music in a group is such an important part of musical learning. Building re...
All forms of music allow young people to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas to the world, with or without words. It can help us to make sense of experiences from an emotional perspective. Sometimes it’s not possible to put feelings into words and that’s where music excels. Music can also help young people to experience strong emotions in a...
Learning music with another person, and particularly in a group of musicians, develops a range of social skills. We learn to pay attention to others, pick up on non-verbal cues, notice what’s happening in the group and respond appropriately, take turns in playing, give feedback. Again many of these are skills linked to executive function.
When we make music with others—particularly in a music group—we experience all the benefits that come from social bondingand feeling part of a community. One of the ‘Five ways to wellbeing’ which have been used widely in mental health and wellbeing work in the UK*, is to ‘Connect with other people’, as this helps build a sense of belonging and self...
A sense of accomplishment is an important tool in developing wellbeing. Even better, like all good learning practices, it encourages self-assessment and reflection, because we need to understand why something ‘worked’ or didn’t work musically. This is known as ‘meta-cognition’ (learning to learn), helping young people think about their own learning...
Learning music – particularly an instrument – develops our brains in deep and powerful ways. No other activity has been found to connect the three main parts of the brain (the auditory, visual and motor cortices) with such accuracy, speed and flexibility and that’s why scientists looking at the effect of playing an instrument described it as like f...
Digital music production charity, Noise Solution, has based its practice around this theory, called self-determination theory(Deci & Ryan, 2018). Self-efficacy refers to a person’s belief in their own ability to manage and succeed in situations, through a constant process of self-evaluation linked to emotions, motivations and behaviors (Bandura, 19...
Jan 26, 2023 · Learning how music can help with mental health and how to use music therapeutically can have a great impact on your child’s overall mental health. Music therapists are trained professionals who can take this work one step further and empower youth and adults through music to address nonmusical goals.
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Oct 18, 2023 · Music therapists are trained professionals who can help teens harness the power of music for healing and wellness. At Cincinnati Children’s, our music therapists use music to help children who are inpatients meet treatment goals and cope with stress, fear and anger.
