"I thought it may help if I provide you with a list of services and products I use on a regular basis. Some are related to “working” online (e.g. having a website, using social media, etc.), some are books I’ve read, and others are products I use as a therapist (e.g. my audio and video recorders). I will continue to add to this Resource page as I learn about, use, and love new products and services. Enjoy!
The products and services listed below are ones that I know, have used, and endorse. There are some items on here that contain affiliate links, but they’re not on here because of that–they’re included as a Resource because I have used them and like them. Where possible, I also include a link to the article that reviews the product or service. (...)" (LER NA ÍNTEGRA)
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20110816
Grata pela referência : ) | Thanks Kimberly Sena Moore
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20100130
'Music therapy helps my son through cancer treatment'
"Dana-Farber's music therapy program, offered through the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, has been a respite for my son Paul during his cancer experience.
Although cancer can sometimes deplete the human spirit, music therapy can uplift and transform — bringing the mind, body, and soul into harmony.
Until you or someone you love is battling cancer, you may not be able to understand the magnitude of the illness and how it can affect you emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
The doctors' appointments, transfusions, infusions, blood counts, surgeries, and diagnostic procedures can literally take over your days, putting your "normal" life on hold.
Paul's life has been on hold since he was struck by a car while riding his bike in 2001, when he was 13. He was not wearing a helmet, and suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. Not expected to live, he was given last rites.
When Paul awoke from a two-month coma, he could not walk or talk. But somehow, through the grace of God, the expertise of doctors, and Paul's own determination, he miraculously recovered.
He regained his cognitive abilities, his voice returned, and he was able to walk to the podium to receive his high school diploma — taking steps his doctors once deemed impossible.
At the time of Paul's graduation he was also recovering from another major hurdle: a bone marrow transplant as treatment for leukemia.
Many children are unable to find a bone marrow donor, but thankfully one of Paul's seven siblings, his 11-year-old brother, was a perfect match, and he received his transplant through Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Care.
Isolated and bored in the hospital, Paul picked up a guitar and began to teach himself how to play.
He had been held captive for three months during his transplant procedure and recovery, all alone except for his family and a guitar. The only other people he saw were his care team and the music therapist they recommended, Brian Jantz.
Playing the guitar with Brian kept my son from falling into a deep depression. It gave him something to look forward to, and brought meaning to his days in the hospital and during the following year, when he had to deal with graft-versus-host disease, and was isolated in his bedroom to avoid getting an infection.
After that, Paul was desperate for relief from his symptoms, which included nausea, dizziness, fatigue, and itchiness.
After many types of medications and procedures, he was a little reluctant to experiment with alternative methods, but finally he sought help again from the Zakim Center and tried meditation, hypnosis, and acupuncture.
Remarkably, I saw a transformation in my son's spirit. He now felt he had some control over his situation, and seemed more at peace.
Paul was surprised and relieved when these therapies helped his symptoms subside. He continued to use music as a way to relax and heal. Then he met Jonathan Auerbach, a professional rock musician, song writer, and performer who volunteers with the Zakim Center's music therapy program.
Through his guidance, the Rockin' Time Jam Workshops at Dana-Farber were created, where Jonathan and Brian come together to help pediatric cancer patients find purpose by striving to become musicians. Or sometimes they just hang and "jam."
Today when Paul returns to the Jimmy Fund Clinic, he always leaves time for music therapy. At Jonathan's music workshops, he can enjoy spending time with other kids who are looking for a respite from their cancer — and regroup, revamp, and revive.
Paul's story is just one of many in which integrative therapies, and especially the music therapy program at the Zakim Center, complement western medicine and help to heal and give hope to anyone challenged by cancer."
— Dixie Fremont-Smith Coskie
Fonte: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Music therapy for Russian children
"Disabled children in Russia are being offered the chance to learn through music. A new centre has just been set up in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz, giving disabled children a chance to overcome physical and emotional challenges through music." (Associated Content, Inc.)
Credit: Reuters
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Alguns artigos 'repescados' (inglês)
Music is a part of most people's everyday lives. But the more specific techniques of music therapy can help individuals deal not only with stress, but perhaps with more serious issues as well.By Peggy Adamik | Published 8/9/2006
The Music we listen to, sing, and dance to, has the power to heal. Find out if Music Therapy is right for you.By Charlie Bradley | Published 5/22/2007
The music you choose may not always be the same as what you usually listen to. Music can help patients with pain, depression, anxiety and stress.By Susan Brink | Published 5/14/2009
For women and men who are victims of domestic violence, it is quite common to develop low self esteem. Using music therapy, many victims find recovery.By Christine Cadena | Published 11/27/2007
What does a music therapist do? Find out everything you need to know about starting a career as a music therapistBy Writegrrl | Published 4/13/2007
For elderly patients, the use of music therapy provides for a method by which to resolve some of the complications associated with aphasia.By Christine Cadena | Published 11/27/2007
Music Therapy literally means the use of music by a trained music therapy professional to improve the social development, cognitive development and self awareness of the people. It helps people, mainly children and adolescents to express their feelings freely.By DJ | Published 6/5/200
'Music Therapy Offers a Wide Range of Health Benefits'
Here is a Guide to the Many Uses of Music Therapy
by Kimberly Sharpe
"Music therapy is being utilized by many trained health care professionals for use with children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly who suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses, learning disabilities, developmental disabilities,
Alzheimer's assistance, brain injuries, chronic pain sufferers, and even women in labor with a baby.
A wide range of professional institutions employ and use music therapies in treatment settings. Music therapists can be found at hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitative facilities, outpatient clinics, services that aid the developmentally disabled persons, mental health centers, drug and alcohol centers, senior centers, nursing homes, many hospice programs, a few correctional facilities, schools, and in private practice.
For hundreds of years it has been believed that music can help sooth and aid in persons well being. The utilization of serious music therapy started after the two World Wars when musicians, orchestras, and bands would visit the local military hospitals and the troops on the front line to perform. The health and mental well being of these soldiers improved dramatically. At the veterans hospitals the improvement of the patients who had regular musical visits improved so dramatically that doctors implored the hospitals to hire regular musical therapists to aid in the treatment of the injured and sick solders. The first musical therapy degree program in the world was founded at Michigan State University in 1944 because of the demand by local hospitals for this wonderful health beneficial service.
Qualified musical therapists should have the following degree designations, RMT, CMT, ACMT. This means that these individuals are truly qualified to practice music therapy.
When using music therapy the person being treated does not need to have any musical skill. Each season of musical therapy is tailor made to fit the individuals likes and dislikes. Any and all music is acceptable in therapy sessions.
Music therapy helps elderly people stay social,improve their memory, and keep them vitalized. It alleviates depression, anxiety, and fear. It can bring on a deep relaxation and relieve stress. The therapy in a hospital setting can help a patient relax and forget about ongoing pain or discomfort. It can relieve any fear or anxiety that they might be suffering.
Musical therapy has been shown to be very beneficial with the learning disabled by helping them to communicate and interact better. It can help not only the disabled but those that suffer from mental health issues to explore their feelings and emotions. It even helps to build confidence, aid in problem solving, and develop deeper inner personal relationships.
In the severely mentally ill music has been shown to lower aggression levels and to help the person better cope with the world around them in a positive manner. It has been shown to help even severe mental disorders and have a positive impact over time.
Many midwifes and Ob/gyns are now utilizing music during both labor and delivery of babies. This seems to help the mother relax and forget about the pain. It also seems to sooth the infant as it comes into the world.
In 1994 music therapy has been recognized by Medicare as a full reimbursable service under benefits for Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP).
To learn more about the benefits of music therapy please visit the American Music Therapy Associations official website.
Sources:
http://voice.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?articleID=4534
http://www.alternateheals.com/music-therapy/music-therapy-research.htm
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab004025.html
http://www.musictherapy.org/"
20090618
Music and Medicine
"One of the reasons, and one of the exciting reasons, why music therapy has so much promise for people with neurological conditions is that music accesses the networks in the brain in a complementary faction (fashion) or differently than the function that a person has lost. And what I mean by that is we can stimulate the timing mechanisms, we can stimulate word finding ability, we can stimulate recognition memory, even short-term memory function through using music in a specific way that makes available to these patients function in the brain that’s still there but maybe they can’t get at independently because of the inhibition that has taken place due to their brain injury.
So music is an enriched sensory stimulus that allows for, I believe, the disinhibition of some of the inhibited function that has been lost in these individuals. And by stimulating these complementary or parallel networks, we see this type of ability come back." (Concetta Tomaino, D.A., MT-BC, LCAT)
20090614
Musicoterapia e Alzheimer
The Songs They Can’t Forget
"Tom was a wanderer. When his wife, Elsie, came to visit him at a care unit for patients with dementia, he would give her a perfunctory kiss, then wander off through the rooms and stare out the window. Elsie tried to walk with him and hold hands, but he would shake her off, leaving her heartsick.
A music therapist at the facility, Alicia Clair, was searching for ways to help couples like Elsie and Tom connect. Ms. Clair asked Elsie if she’d like to try dancing with Tom, then put on some music from the ’40s — Frank Sinatra singing “Time after Time.” Ms. Clair said recently, “I knew Tom was a World War II vet, and vets did a lot of ballroom dancing.”
As Sinatra began singing, Elsie opened her arms, beckoning. Tom stared a moment, then walked over and began leading her in the foxtrot. “They danced for thirty minutes!” Ms. Clair said. When they were finished, Elsie broke down and sobbed. “I haven’t been held by my husband in three years,” she told Ms. Clair. “Thank you for bringing him back.”
Ms. Clair, a professor of music therapy at the University of Kansas, tells this story to show how music can reach people with Alzheimer’s disease. Music has the power to bypass the mind and wash through us, triggering strong feelings and cueing the body to synchronize with its rhythm.
Researchers and clinicians are finding that when all other means of communication have shut down, people remember and respond to music. Familiar songs can help people with dementia relate to others, move more easily and experience joy. Tom had forgotten his name and couldn’t utter one word, but hearing Sinatra prompted him to dance.
Music memory is preserved better than verbal memory, according to Ms. Clair, because music, unlike language, is not seated in a specific area of the brain but processed across many parts. “You can’t rub out music unless the brain is completely gone.”
Ms. Clair noted, too, that Alzheimer’s is retrograde: “Things fall off in the opposite order from the way they were acquired.” So if someone sang to you as a baby, before you even knew words, you’ll respond to music after words are gone.
The discipline of music therapy (MT) was established in 1950, and last year close to a million people received MT services in hospitals, care facilities, hospices and schools. MT is not merely playing music for people, although that’s beneficial. Practitioners are skilled musicians who play instruments and sing, then are trained and certified to use music for therapeutic purposes.
Patients with a wide range of ailments — from children with disabilities to burn victims to people with Parkinson’s disease and stroke — have experienced the ability of MT to speed healing, improve mood and increase mobility. In a study published by the American Society of Neurorehabilitation, music therapy and conventional physical therapy were given to two groups of stroke victims who could barely walk. The group who received music therapy showed greater improvement in walking in a shorter period of time than those getting physical therapy.
My daughter, Rachel Strauss, who’s studying for a master’s degree in MT, said, “It works faster to relax people than any drug. It’s cost effective and has no side effects.”
There’s been a burst of interest in MT for people with Alzheimer’s. Kate Gfeller, who directs the graduate MT program at the University of Iowa, published a study in the Journal of Music Therapy finding that activities like moving to music, playing rhythm instruments and singing led to more group involvement and less wandering and disruptive behavior among 51 patients with dementia in five nursing facilities.
Other studies demonstrate that MT can slow the progress of Alzheimer’s, relieve pain and create emotional intimacy. The goal, Ms. Gfeller said, is to keep people functioning at their present level as long as possible: “We can’t reverse the disease, but we can make the quality of each day as good as it can be.”
Not just any music will do, though. The trick is finding out what music was popular when the patient was a teen and young adult. Ms. Gfeller said those years are such a powerful time in developing autonomy — a time of first love, learning to drive, getting the first home of one’s own — that people will play the music they heard during those years all their lives, and recall it the longest.
I remember visiting my grandfather, Louie Wass, when he was hospitalized with dementia, lying in bed, unable to talk. I started singing a Hungarian song he’d learned as a youth and later taught to me, “Territch-ka.” I sang the verse and when I stopped, he opened his mouth and sang the chorus: “Yoy, Territch-ka!” Right on key.
My daughter has asked me to send her books of music from the ’60s because, she said, “Boomers will be the next generation in the nursing facilities.” That was cheering. With the generation currently in these facilities, she uses songs like “A Bicycle Built for Two.” She likes those songs but said, “Your generation will be awesome — we’ll get to play the Beatles.”
Sara Davidson can be reached at saradavidson.com.
20090401
Music Therapy with children with autism and people with severe disabilities
"Music heals. Just look at this video about the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy, or ask some of the legends who support our work -- Sir Paul McCarthy, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Rolling Stones, The Who, U2, and Ozzy Osbourne, to name a few.
At the Center, children with autism and people with severe disabilities discover new ways to communicate -- through music.
The Nordoff-Robbins approach is labor-intensive. There is no substitute for the focused and sustained attention of experienced therapists when it comes to connecting with hard-to-reach individuals.
Most sessions are conducted with two therapists, a third person films the session, and the two therapists spend additional time reviewing the videotape of each session. Each session builds upon the last, and in time, previously unspoken emotions, hidden connections and new relationships are unveiled.
As you will see on these videos, music therapy provides joy and gives rise to new ways to communicate with satisfaction and meaning." (NordoffRobbins)
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20090329
Music Therapy and Parkinson's
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the effect of music therapy on Parkinson's disease patients. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Dr. Sacks's latest book. For more information, visit http://www.oliversacks.com or http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/di...
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