Chapter 1 Lathom-Radocy Flashcards
Since when has Music Therapy been recognized as a professional discipline?
- The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations recognized Music Therapy as one of the creative arts therapies as a related service in The Education for All Handicapped Children Act.
How does AMTA broadly define music therapy?
“the clinical and 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”
How does the Lathom-Radocy text define music therapy?
A planned, goal-directed process of interaction and intervention based on assessment and evaluation of each individual client’s specific needs, strengths, and weaknesses, in which music or music-based experiences are specifically prescribed to be used by specially train personnel to influence positive changes in an individual’s condition, skills, thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
Music Therapy is A Process
Music therapy is a process that occurs over time and involved growths, change, and development.
What are goals for a music therapy setting?
Goals and objectives give direction to the therapeutic process. They specify what changes must occur in the client’s condition, thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to indicate improvement in the targeted physical, mental, social, or emotional functioning areas.
Why can’t someone simply listen to music for it to be music therapy?
Music is a modality for therapy, and must be accompanied by a therapist who can affectively use this modality to address a service user’s goals.
What three main entities are involved in the interaction of music therapy?
the music therapist, the client, and the music
What does music go beyond?
The constraints of verbal expression.
What does relational mean?
concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected “power is a relational concept that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups”
What is active music therapy?
Active music therapy requires a service user to sing, play, move to, improvise, create, or make music in some way.
What is receptive music therapy?
Receptive music therapy achieves their effect by the service user(s) listening to, taking in, or receiving the music.
How does a music therapist determine the most appropriate selection of music experiences and materials for use?
The service user’s needs, capabilities, responses and preferences as indicated by assessment.
What is the music therapist concerned with how these musical skills and behaviors can be used to help service users?
They can help the service users improve their level of physical, mental, social, or emotional functioning and to faciliatate the development of nonmusical skills (e.g., motor control and coordination, physical comfort, perceptual skills, cognitive or academic skills, behavior patterns, appropriate emotional expression, communication skills, problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills).
Is Music Therapy specifically prescribed?
Yes. In medical settings, the prescriptive order for music therapy is signed by the physician in charge, just as an order for medication or physical therapy might be. In nonmedical settings, the music therapy services may be requested formal by such people as the service user(s) caseworker, psychologist, teacher, or parents, or music therapy services may be written into the service users treatment plan by the general consensus of the professional team.
Who implements Music Therapy?
Specially Trained Personnel, Board Certified Music Therapists.
