Direct and Indirect Effects of Music Therapy

What is Music Therapy?

Direct and Indirect Effects of Music Therapy

The Impact of Music on the Human Body

Justin Hector

Abstract

Composing Research for what effects music has on the human body directly and indirectly.

• Have the ability to answer concerning how therapist use music.

Methodology

• Use of the internet and books.
• Interviews of people both amateur and professional.
• Gain a clear and concise understanding of music therapy.

Music Therapy

My Focus

• I am going to zero in on how music therapy as a practice is the direct and how the everyday use is indirect.
• How the research will differ from a persons personal interaction with music they choose to listen to.

: an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages. (Howell, 1984)

: Improves the life of people who are well

: meets the needs of those with disabilities or illnesses

History of Music Therapy

: Music therapy has been used since 400 B.C. by Hippocrates. (1984)

: Early 1800s saw the first recorded music therapy intervention in an institutional setting.(Blackwell's Island, NY)

Literature

Interview/

Analysis

: Drumming and music help with Alzheimer's diseases and improve motor skills with Parkinson's disease.

: Rehabilitation along with music has been proven to show positive effects on the bodies recovery.

: Barber Shop quartets after WW2 were used in veteran hospitals to help speed up the recovery process.

: Music in dentist offices helps with lowering the Nitrous Oxide intake per patient. Even allows sometimes for no use of nitrous oxide at all.

: . When thinking of the different feelings that music can generate, the feeling of pain relief is not one that quickly comes to mind (Moser, 2007).

: I did a portion where I was able to interview people. I asked a series of questions to each person in the same order.

: these interviews were taken by phone, e-mail, or face to face encounters.

: With these interviews I plan to display how people of different ages differ with the musical selection they perceived as helpful to them

Lit. Cont..

: Musical sounds exist through social construction and acquire meaning through social interpretation. (Feld, 1994)

: Music affects an individual's entire psychological being, the way a person feels, and a persons physically responds (Kearney, 1992).

: Psycho-dynamic music therapy consist of useful constructs which are adopted by clinicians and provide a framework within to analyze and interpret behaviors (Nicol, 2006).

Most Common Data

For 25 and older

Discussion

: there was really no common answer. All those of age seemed to have their own interpretation of music and which they chose to listen to.

: Answers ranged from R&B to Neo-Soul, to Gospel and more.

: Favorite artist were even more broad, as if everyone was raised in a different era of time but ages were very close.

: When it comes to these interviews

it's very different outputs based on the age. The musical selection varied by the age. However, there were similarities of how often they listen to music.

: Everyone has their own use for music in their every day life as displayed in interviews.

: I just wonder why is it so different once people over 25 answer questions compared to people under 25 answer questions. The music they grew up on is still played but it's such a gap of what we listen to compared to them.

Most common answers

Interview Data

For ages up to 25

: Listen to music everyday.

: If in a relationship music is used in a lot of ways such as with arguments, just to listen together, or to "set the mood."

: R&B seems to be the favorite genre

: Chris Brown is the favorite artist.

: The reason for these results of extreme similarity is that we are all pretty much exposed to the same technology and musical guidance.

: My interviews data shows a age

break when it comes to selecting

the favorite genre and what to listen to. Those under 25 often listened to R&B, Pop and Hip-Hop, but those over 25 selected Neo-Soul or Gospel as their favorite genre.

: There was a case or two when it was different and age didn't play a factor in the musical selection.

Conclusion

I conclude from my research

that music as a therapy is very effective whether direct or indirect. The use of it as a practice is what makes it a Direct use of music therapy, and the every day type of use is how it's indirect. Us as people have to continuously recognize that we use music as therapy every day in some form to alter our mood and mindset. The use of music indirectly is already been recognized simply through living but just because we know that music can effect us doesn't mean that we know why. That was the purpose of my research. To connect the dot between the direct and indirect effects of music as a therapy. Also to show how they relate and complement each other.