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Music Therapy

What is Music Therapy ?

Music therapy is the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote, maintain, and restore mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Music has nonverbal, creative, structural, and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact, interaction, self-awareness, learning, self-expression, communication, and personal development.

 

 

~Canadian Association for Music Therapy

What happens in a music therapy session ?

In a music therapy session, an individual is invovled in many ways including:

 

- Listening to Music

- Music Discussions

- Verbal Interactions

- Singing

- Playing instruments

- Making music vocally or instrumentally (Improvisation)

- Moving to music

- Song writing

- Composition

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