Blogpost 9: a brighter future for musical therapy

Either physical or emotional therapy can be tricky. Therapists make sure that the activities held within therapy sessions should be on a case to case basis. So goals and techniques should be explained to the patient so that it will be realistic and can be an advantage not just to the current patient but for the future use for the medical field. Just like any other therapy, it has a sequence that fits to every needs of a patient. Expectations should be explained and realistic even if it for a minor or complex kind of patient. Since we’ve been tackling music therapy about all the advantages it has and how it works for mankind, here are some citation of our generous researchers or bloggers more about the therapy.

I read an article about “The Anatomy of a Music Therapy Goal” by Andrew Littlefield from www.thegeorgecenter.com.  He was so informative that he was able to separate music as entertainment from being therapeutic. You might ask yourself while listening to your favorite music right now like, what’s my goal of listening to my favorite song anyway? What makes it my favorite? Is it because of the beat or the meaning itself? You might want to find out why on this post.

According to Littlefield, “One of the defining characteristics of music therapy is that it separates us from simply “music AS therapy”, is the fact that we have non-music goals for clients we collect and track data on. Typically, we want our goals to be S.M.A.R.T, which stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Limited”.  

From the word it about their goals for MT is truly self-explanatory but we’ll tackle a bit more of each one. Their strategy works on a case to case basis but of course, it is always use on every client since they have to set expectations as well. Being specific would be the first goal or first part of the therapy whereas they have explain the activity and how long it will take since learning is not a piece of cake, it consumes time for us to move forward to our next stepping stone. Measurable can be indefinite since conducting a therapy will always depend on a client’s need. It may take some time for a client to learn and unlearn things. For example, for client’s suffering from stroke, a therapist would say that it might take a client maximum of 5-6 months for them to learn to walk by themselves. Having an attainable activity for the client would be a priority of a therapist. Since the goal is to take the client to next high level. Being realistic is also similar or having the therapy be attainable. Examinations for the client will be conducted for them to measure what to do and when to do a specific task for the client. Lastly, having a therapy be time limited. Not because they have to assist other patients but to set a time for the client so that the client will have some to look forward as the day pass by conducting a series of activities. It can also make the client be goal setter as well. 

Another article that I found in the website that talk about the music therapy in the next generation and this is "Future of Music Therapy" by Olivia Andrews from www.articlesbase.com. she is the writer of music-future.com is a freelance journalist and she wrote about education, finance and many more especially the review. The article talks about how music therapy can be used in the future especially there is a lot children, adult who are having a hard time to release there stress and interact with there friends or family.

According to Andrews "Music therapy is applied by a qualified practitioner whereby music is used in a systematic manner to achieve therapeutic goals or purposes. These purposes or goals may include self awareness, social development, cognitive development and spiritual enhancement. Therefore, music therapy helps in the fulfillment of physical, psychological, communicative and social needs of the individuals. The future of music therapy is quite promising because the level of effectiveness gained in the therapeutic use of music is high."

Nowadays therapy is safest and effective program for us to promote awareness that we can use therapy in our body without using any dangerous chemical drug that we take in our body, we know that drugs can help us but with this kind of program we can help our body to overcome or cope up with our own without using any drugs.

Natural healing is best way for human being to cure our self or this is what we called therapy, therapy help you and your body to ease your minds and there is a lot of usage of using this kind of program that which we are not familiar with. Therapy help our motor skills to develop and vocabulary skills but if we are we going to explore about this we can use this in our daily life without using any drugs that might affect our body.