Chapter 5 Lathom-Radocy Flashcards
Give several reasons why music is useful as a treatment modality.
Music can be felt, heard, measured, and graphed in ordered time. This makes the modality easily adaptable to different structures or organizational processes to support achieving goals. Music also affects physical change and regulation by impacting domains such as heart rate, muscle tension, a central nervous system driver, and respiration. These physical affects can be changed positively with musical experiences guided by a music therapist.
What are Gaston’s three guiding principles?
- the use of music and music experiences to establish or re-establish interpersonal relationships, 2. the use of music and music experience to bring about self-esteem through self-actualization, and 3. the use of the unique potential of rhythm to energize and bring order.
What are Sear’s three basic classifications?
The three classifications that underlie the constructs and processes of music therapy are (1) experience with structure, (2) experience in self-organization, and (3) experience in relating to others
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve behavioral skills e.g. attending skills, compliance.
Music’s time-ordered structure helps clients attend to tasks presented in a musical format for longer periods of time. Action songs, singing activities, and individual or group instrumental performance activities all can be increased in length and difficult, gradually requiring clients to attend and remain on task for more extended periods of time.
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve sensory skills.
Activities for auditory perception include 1) indicating by word or gesture when sounds start to stop, 2) identifying the location of hidden sound sources, 3) using words or gestures to indicate contrasts of loud-soft or fast-slow 4) singing or playing instruments with loud or soft or fast or slow as directed. Activities for visual perception include 1) playing musical instruments on a visual cue from a conductor, 2) locating specific notes or symbols in musical scores, 3) imitating using musical games movements demonstrated by another person. Texture tolerance can be explored through experiencing different instruments and grasping different instruments.
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve motor skills.
Activities include 1) performing locomotor movements (walking, running, jumping, etc.) to a steady or rhythmic beat 2) performing nonlocomotor movements (bending, swaying, rocking) etc. to the beat of the music 3) performing actions described by song lyrics, 4) learning and performing dances and movements games
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve language and communication skills.
Activities include 1) picking up or pointing to object or pictures as requested by song lyrics, 2) responding to commands to stop, start, look, touch etc. contained in songs or musical games 3) performing actions or playing instruments as directed by song lyrics and 4) following directions to play instruments and perform dance movements in a certain sequence.
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve emotional learning and emotional expression.
Music is a language of emotions, music experiences can facilitate emotional learning and provide appropriate, socially acceptable means of emotional expression. As SU’s participate in structured music experiences, they can be guided to experience, identify and express various emotions and moods.
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve interpersonal social skills.
Activities include: 1) songs or chants that requires clients to name themselves brother group members, 2) group songs, dances, or instrumental activities that require clients to play, sing, or move together with one or more group members 3) todo form chants and songs that alternate group and individual responses, 4) songs and games that require clients to take turns suggesting movements or rhythms and imitating the movements or rhythms suggested by other group members
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve self-help/survival skills.
Special songs that teach the sequence of steps needed to perform various tasks like dressing or washing hands may be useful. Specifically designed song lyrics and musical games help clients practice identifying things like items or clothing or safety and survival signs or learn and rehearse safety rules.
Describe music experiences that might be used to help improve academic/cognitive skills.
1) experiential, structured instrumental activities, such as playing instruments in rhythm or with the proper chords and at the proper time, 2) singing, playing, or listening to and discussing songs that refer to some aspects of person, place, or time, 3) recalling song titles of lyrics, 4) learning songs or accompaniments by rote and then performing them by memory
