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Music Therapy:
Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages. Music improves even a healthy individual’s quality of life, and is also used to meet the needs of children and adults with disabilities or illnesses. Music therapy interventions can be designed to promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, aid in the expression of feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation.
Recent Research:
Research in music therapy supports its effectiveness in a wide variety of healthcare and educational settings.
- New research by Sheri L. Robb and colleagues published in Psycho-Oncology, or found online,
lends support to the general consensus that music therapy helps young cancer patients. - Additional evidence of Music Therapy’s ability to help children cope with cancer is found in other
Psycho-Oncology articles (Vol. 11: 379-388). - “Music Therapy in the Comprehensive Cancer Center” by Michael Richardson and colleagues in
Journal of the Society of Integrative Oncology (Vol 6, No 2, 2008: pp 76-81)