According to the American Music Therapy Association, "Music Therapy is 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"1
What Music Therapy Is...and Is Not
The more music the better, bring it on!
"But clinical MUSIC THERAPY is the only professional research-based discipline that actively applies supportive science to the creative, emotional, and energizing experiences of music for health treatment goals."1
Music Therapy is:
• Music Therapists must have a bachelor's degree or higher in music therapy
• Music Therapists have completed 1200 hours of clinical training.
• Music Therapists Must hold a MT-BC credential, issued through Certification Board for Music Therapists, which protects the public by ensuring competent practice and requiring continuing education.
• Music Therapy is an evidence based health profession with a strong research foundation.
• Music therapy degrees require knowledge in psychology, medicine and music.
Music Therapy is Not:
• A person with dementia listening to his favorite songs on an iPod with headphones.
• Celebrities performing at hospitals or schools.
• A piano player in a hospital
• Nurses playing background music for patients
• A choir singing on the pediatric floor of a hospital
"Music Therapy can make the difference between withdrawal and awareness, between isolation and interaction, between chronic pain and comfort - between demoralization and dignity" - Barbara Crowe (past president of National Association for Music Therapy)
At CMF our Board Certified Music Therapists:
• Work with children with brain injuries or brain trauma to help reconnect neurons and increase brain activity.
• Work with children to reduce asthma episodes
• Work with children in the hospital to reduce pain
• Work with children who have autism to improve communication capabilities and decrease stress and anxiety
• Work with pre-mature infants to improve sleep patterns and increase weight gain.
"Music is universal but it is also highly individual and empowering."2
Music therapy is so individualized that "going forward doctors may actually be prescribing a 'course' of musical numbers"3
Imagine getting a prescription for your very own "mixed tape" from your doctor!
Children's Music Fund is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization committed to provide music therapy and bring the healing power of music to children with life altering and chronic conditions. For more information or to make a donation please visit our website: www.thecmf.org
1. American Music Therapy Association http://www.musictherapy.org
2. Music As Medicine: A Historical Perspective and
Review of Select Clinical Applications, Alternative and Complementary Therapies, October 2013 Talin Babikian, Lonnie Zeltzer, Vartan Tachdjian, Lindsay Henry, Elan Javanfard,
Lara Tucci, Mary Goodarzi , Raffi Tachdjian
3. Music is medicine to the brain..!! Dr. NK Venkataramanaa BGS Global Institute of Neurosciences
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