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Music therapy. Music therapy is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.[1] Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of a process in which a music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients improve their health.

Music therapy

Music therapists primarily help clients improve their health in several domains, such as cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional development, social skills, and quality of life, by using music experiences such as free improvisation, singing, and listening to, discussing, and moving to music to achieve treatment goals. Music therapists are found in nearly every area of the helping professions. History[edit] Forms[edit] Children[edit] Musical Therapy has also been recognized as a method for children with autism. Music and mood disorders[edit] How music therapy soothed the bullet-damaged brain - Canada.

When U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot last January in a parking lot in Tuscon, the bullet entered just over her left eye, travelled the length of the left hemisphere of her brain, and exited.

How music therapy soothed the bullet-damaged brain - Canada

This week during Giffords's first public speaking appearance, her husband, former space shuttle commander Mark Kelly explained how the trajectory of the bullet saved her life. "It's clear that any lower, it would've killed her, any further midline, it would've killed her. If it crossed hemispheres, it would've killed her. Any further outboard, she'd never be able to speak again. Any higher, she'd never be able to walk. " Gabrielle Giffords's wound was catastrophic, but not fatal. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords hugs her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelley as he received the Legion of Honour medal from Vice-President Joe Biden in October 2011.

As Morrow told me this week on CBC Radio's Day 6, she knew going into the meeting that Giffords wasn't able to vocalize at all. Turkish Music Portal. Through the history of Islamic civilization it has been chiefly the mystic sects (Sufis) which have been involved with music, used and defended it.

Turkish Music Portal

The Sufis mention that mental and nervous disorders are cured by music. The great Turkish Islamic scientists and doctors Zekeriya Er-Razi (854-932), Farabi (870-950) and İbn Sina (980-1037) established scientific principles concerning musical treatment, especially of psychological disorders. In his book, “Musiki-ul-kebir,” Farabi attempted to set forth the relationship between music and physics and astronomy. According to Farabi, the effects of the makams of Turkish music on the soul were classified as follows: Farabi also outlined the effects of the makams of Turkish music according to the times they were effective: The great Islamic thinker and philosopher Ibn Sina (980-1037) wrote that he gained much from Farabi’s works, and even learned music from him and applied it in his practice.

Ottoman Music Therapy - Academia.edu. Ottoman Music Therapy Ottoman Music Therapy by Nil Sari Table of contents 1.

Ottoman Music Therapy - Academia.edu

Turkish Music therapy / Hüseyni Sema: for Happiness and against fever - Cantemir *1673. Old Ottoman Turkish Healing/Sufi Music - Seba Peşrev - Osman Bey *1816. Ottoman Turkish Healing/Sufi Music - Segah Peşrev - Osman Bey *1816 - against depressive disorder. Watch a Music Therapy session. Music therapy and cancer diagnosis. Hope for Autism through Music Therapy. Music Therapy Helps Olivia Connect - It's A Wonderful World.

Alzheimer's disease and the Power of Music 1 & 2. Alzheimer's disease and the Power of Music 3 & 4. Alzheimer's disease and the Power of Music 5 & 6. Another Miracle - Music Therapy & End Stage Alzheimer's. ABC News-Music Therapy - G Gifford.mp4. Gabrielle Giffords' Bright Future.