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How does Music Therapy Affect Mental Health?

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How does Music Therapy Affect Mental Health?

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Psychology is the study of the mind, one's behaviors, mental processes and brain functions. Music has a strong psychological impact, and different types of music can change how a person feels and thinks. Music therapy can help you relax, regulate stress, strengthen communication, social and speaking skills, form coping skills, and improve yout overall quality of life. (myclevelandclinic.org)

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Music Therapy as a Complimentary Treatment

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Music Therapy as a Complimentary Treatment

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Music therapy is not meant to be used or most effective as a standalone treatment, but generates the most positive effects when integrated with other treatments, whether it be other forms of therapy, or medications as prescribed by a doctor.

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Cognitive functions are the mental processes that allow a person to acquire, store and use information. Music Therapy can positively impact memory, attention spans, processing, reasoning, and other cognitive functions.

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Has been used in healing rituals since ancient times. Believed to be effective in healing wounds or getting rid of diseases. (Silverman Ch3)

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Patients often participate in a group as well as individual therapy. Group therapy has benefits such as seeing that you are not alone in your situation, and being able to connect with other people. It is also often more affordable. Some people may find individual therapy more effective due to having the full attention and direct feedback of the therapist. (Silverman Ch3)

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One's emotional, social and psychological well being. A state of well being that allows you to deal with your day to day life and can impact the way you feel, think, act, and make decisions. Mental health issues are often overlooked in society and the public is often misinformed about mental health conditions. (Silverman Ch1)

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Medications or drugs that affect mood, behavior and mental processes. Relief of symptoms, but may take lots of trial and error of medication and dosage to find the proper medication, but they have side effects and the need for monitoring of a patient. (Silverman Ch2)

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Music therapy comes in many different forms, such as listening, sing-a-longs, music activities, dancing, musicals, music education, songwriting, playing instruments and improv. (Silverman Ch3)

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R. Kanehira, Y. Ito, M. Suzuki and F. Hideo, "Enhanced relaxation effect of music therapy with VR," 2018 14th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD), Huangshan, China, 2018, pp. 1374-1378, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8686951

Silverman, Michael J. Music Therapy in Mental Health for Illness Management and Recovery.

2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2022, https://academic.oup.com/book/41931.

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With rapid new progress in technology, VR is able to be used in therapy settings. VR was tested in music therapy using a combination of VR images with music stimuli. It was confirmed that there was an improvement of overall mental states and a stronger desire to learn. (Kanehira)

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Focuses on addressing mental health issues through talk therapy, counseling, behavior modification techniques and music therapy. Teaching them how to manage their symptoms, cope, emotions, and provide a safe space.

(Silverman Ch2)