I was never the type to enjoy volunteering. The first thing that came to mind was doing work without compensation, that was my definition of volunteering before I volunteered at Bayview. I was never interested in volunteering, not because I am selfish, but because I never realized how important it was to volunteer. At Bayview, I helped out Mrs. L., the musician, during music therapy. At first, I thought my tasks were to play instruments and sing for the residents. However, it was much more than entertaining them. It was being able to make a connection with them, listening, talking, and helping them reconnect with other people. Music therapy allowed them to reminisce about their life. It gave them an opportunity to feel alive and be joyful. …show more content…
I wasn’t accustomed to entertaining a handful of people. However, after the fourth week, I was accustomed to it. I was doing more than just playing instruments, I was involving the residents to participate with Mrs. L. and I. Additionally, I would sit down and communicate with the residents and listen to their stories. Music therapy was more than just making music, it was about giving the residents something to look forward and giving them something to enjoy. For example, whenever Mrs. L. and I would arrive at the recreation room, for whichever designated floor, the room would be full of residents. Sometimes there would be residents from different floors. This proves how important music therapy is to them. It makes a significant difference in their …show more content…
There are a few residents who do not like the bunny, but for those who adore the rabbit, their face instantly lit up when they are in the rabbit’s presence. For some of the residents, the rabbit triggers a memory when they once had their own pet. It reminds them of the time they used to spend with their own pets. For example, the first time I walked around with the bunny, I met Mrs. N. in her room. Before I came in she was just laying down watching television. When the bunny and I came in, her mood changed. She was full of joy and she became very talkative. She went on about how her son had a farm, and he had numerous animals on the farm including rabbits. Eventually, she began talking about before she arrived at Bayview she had a dog and a cat and she loved them very much, but when she left her home she had to give them away to her neighbors. Pet therapy allows the residents to reconnect with both person and the pet and allows them to rekindle old
Lyric analysis – Lyric analysis is a popular music therapy method, defined as the expansion from existing song or lyrics to any broader use. Sometimes two songs are chosen, and patients are asked to compare both the similarities and differences in musical style, timbre, lyrical content, levels of emotion, kind of emotions, and ways of expressing those emotions. Songs mark many solid memories from important life events, and the music may improve a person’s ability to look back over their life. Either with patient preferred music or songs that address topics to focus on, lyric analysis may be used to facilitate life review and reminiscence.
The overall mission of music therapy is to increase and advance public awareness of music therapy and its benefits. Boosting access to quality music therapy services is also part of the mission of music therapy. Music therapy can be used for many different purposes. Music therapy can be designed to promote wellness, manage stress and alleviate pain. It can also be designed to express feelings, ...
This paper will examine a 10-session theoretical group therapy intervention. The population served will be adults who have endured childhood trauma and who deal with mental health issues resulting from those traumatic experience(s). The purpose is to intervene with music therapy to aid in the abatement of most mental health symptoms excluding personality disorders and psychosis.
Music therapy isn’t the same as other therapy. Music therapy uses music to help establish a connection of ...
I’m writing my paper on Music Therapy, and how music affects the mind and body, to treat various illnesses. Music therapy is the prescribed use of music under the direction of specially trained therapists to influence changes in negative conditions and behavior. It accomplishes this by maintaining and restoring mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health .One type of theory is the idea that music, movement, and speech are inseparable. Music evokes unconscious thoughts and feelings, which in turn expand self-awareness. Music therapy is a powerful and non-invasive form of sensory stimulation which provokes responses due to the familiarity, predictability, and feelings of security associated with it. In some medical settings such as mental health services, it has been used to decrease patient’s perception of pain, anxiety and depression. ICU patients listening to music showed a significant decrease in blood pressure. It has been shown to calm the patient and to relax their mind and body. Music eases the burden on the arteries and nerves through relaxation. Du...
Music therapy works because of its three fundamentals: the application of systematic thinking through music theory, the creation of an individualized treatment plan, as well as the patie...
Music is everywhere we go; we listen to it in the car, while doing work, and there are even people who pay to listen or watch an artist perform live. Yes, life goes on without music, but music has such an impact on our lives. Life is a rollercoaster of emotions and we have music to fit our emotions to be just as we feel. Music has a great deal of importance of many people. It can have a meaning that they cannot explain to others and are able to connect with the song. By doing so experts are able to help patients overcome many sicknesses with the help of music. Music therapy is capable of being an advantage for many individual patients, it can encourage responses from patients that other methods of therapy cannot get from them. Also, it improves the patients in distinctive ways other than for an illness.
Every time I do some kind of service – I have the opportunity to learn new ideas, discover new perspectives and I've have grown as an individual. By giving back I like making people feel as though they matter, and it gives me a good feeling at the end of the day because I feel I have made a difference. I grow as a person each time I do volunteering. Some people do volunteering because they have to, but I do it because I want to. I love volunteering.
There are many of types of counseling in the world that are used often and then there are few that are used not so often, just because it is called therapy does not mean that the person is just in a room laying on a couch and talking to someone who keeps asking the same question “and how does that make you feel.” like we see on the television, There are therapies other than just in a room talking to someone; There are some in which people can do exercise, children can play games, they could even do group activities, just because someone is in counseling does not mean that they are confined to four walls and a note pad. The forms of therapy which will be focused on are Art and Music therapy, starting with art.
Volunteering enables a person to develop new skills that he or she would otherwise not have been able to develop. Unlike most other organizations, a charitable organization is happy to give positions to passionate, though inexperienced, individuals who desire to help others and benefit the community. Therefore, an individual with little experience in a field of work can gain meaningful skills that he or she can use in the future. For example, while I volunteered at the hospital this summer, I learned about the daily work lives and professional duties of doctors and nurses. Had I not volunteered, I would not have learned about these things. I was always interested in the medical field, but volunteering at the hospital let me explore my interests and en...
Still some people move away from the thought of volunteering at all. They think that it is beneath them, they find it demeaning. Think giving up your valuable time to help someone out. "I don’t get paid I don’t work", they say. My time is precious, I barely have enough time for me and my family, I
A reflection of my volunteering experience can be summarized in two words: Life-changing. It is hard to explain the feelings that occur when you involve yourself in selfless acts for your community, such as volunteering. There is a feeling in your heart that you cannot ignore, maybe it is the happiness you feel or the overflow of emotions in helping others. In other words, it is a feeling in which you want to share with others. Maybe with a friend, maybe a classmate, maybe a family member, or maybe even a stranger. Either way, spreading how life-changing volunteering can be is a great start to making a positive change in your community by simply by involving others.
In order to understand why the use of music therapy is growing, one must know what exactly music therapy is. Music Therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. Music therapy also provides avenues for communicati...
They are usually a part of an interdisciplinary team that work for adults and children. A few examples of places that a music therapist could work include, senior centers, hospice programs, schools, private practices, and correctional facilities. The point is to get people feeling better by using a holistic approach to healing compared to using medication to make you feel better. Like most people listening to music it is calming for them, so, a lot of people tend to go to music when they are down. There are certain genres and each genre had its own feeling is that they portray to certain people. Along with that includes how different tones and such have different effects on everyone. This is how the music therapy used. Sound therapy goes hand in hand with this music therapy concept. I feel like telling people or myself to just listen to music during a hard time is a good idea. Realistically you won’t be able to totally get rid of all your problems but as an in the moment thing music is very healing for one’s soul. There are people out there that don’t want to get help for a mental disorder because they think they can fix it themselves. This is a perfect example of that. I feel like I go tell someone that listening to music will help them out and they will agree after they do it. There is nothing wrong with picking the more holistic approach when deciding on a path to better ones healthDuring the 20th century music therapy made its debut. After World War 1 and World War 2 is when It became big. There were amateur and professional musicians who went to veteran homes. Here they spent time with them and played them music. Most of these people were struggling from physical and emotional trauma of the wars. Music therapy is still practiced today. The very first college to have the music therapy degree was Michigan State University in 1944. Music
Music Therapy is the prescribed use of music and musical interventions to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being. These are the key elements which define interventions as music therapy. Music Therapy is goal oriented and provides a system to work towards a specific therapeutic goal and objective. Goals identified can include communicative, academic, motor emotional and social skills. In the end the music development learned in the sessions hopefully have a relaxing, positive effect on the client’s physical, psychological and socio-economical functioning. Music Therapy became a profession in 1950 with the establishment of the National Association for Music Therapy and the American Association for Music Therapy Association. (AMTA) There were nonmusical goals set for the professional setting. “They included: improving communication skills, decreasing inappropriate ...