An introduction to music therapy

This video explains music therapy in an interview with Rachael Finnerty — a music therapist who is accredited in Canada. It introduces music therapy interventions, identifies diagnoses that benefit from music therapy and explains the advantages of using it as part of treatment. It also looks at a study that assessed the effectiveness of music therapy in patients with Parkinson's disease.

This video is provided for general and educational information only. Please consult your health care provider for Information about your health.

This video was made by McMaster students Khaled Nawar, Peter Tso, Salina Pasit and Ojan Yarkhani in collaboration with the McMaster Demystifying Medicine Program.

Copyright McMaster University 2018.

References:

1) Davis, W. B., Gfeller, K. E., & Thaut, M. H. (2008). An introduction to music therapy: Theory and practice. American Music Therapy Association. 8455 Colesville Road Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

2) Pacchetti, C., Mancini, F., Aglieri, R., Fundarò, C., Martignoni, E., & Nappi, G. (2000). Active music therapy in Parkinson’s disease: an integrative method for motor and emotional rehabilitation. Psychosomatic medicine, 62(3), 386-393.

[acetraineraster]

My dream career is a music therapist, and if possible, specializing in music therapy for kids and teens with mental illnesses and neurodivergences specifically. As a mentally ill and neurodivergent person, I want to help those like me by giving them what I wish I got if it'll help them.

[mskelsiejanel]

I start work as a Music Therapist on Monday and I’m super excited ☺️

[Hellacrazzzy]

Going into my third year studying music and just now realizing this is what I want to do with my life. Adding a psychology minor asap!

[justah]

If you love music and by nature have a soft heart that would be awesome to go to school for

[aetreus]

This woman gives off such lively and true energy that it makes me want to cry. I wonder where she is now...

[willlatham]

Ironic how annoying the music in this video is!!!! 😂😂😂

[PinacoladaMatthew]

Music has never sounded sweeter whenever I'm clinically depressed....it's just amazing....

[Antweezy]

Are there also research opportunities as a music therapist? I'd like to create experiments to see how music can be better used to help people with cognitive diseases. Would MD in music therapy or music cognition better fit this goal (or maybe cog psych)?

[ZoeyandZandersGuidetoSuccess]

Hello. I am a music teacher and I am trying to teach my students about
music therapy virtually. May I use this video in our virtual learning
program giving you credit of course?

[Volkan]

Whoever thought that putting background music to clips of the therapist speaking should get fired.

[mtu]

This is a great way to explain what us as Music Therapist do

[yogurl_arie]

I’ve always wanted to do health care and music at the same time and be a therapist

[shalenigma]

I want to be a music therapist.. pls guide me on how i shd go about it. Thank u!

[positivethinkingandrelaxat]

Great video, I totally agree that music is a great health benefit

[gomathib]

Scenario:

Music Coordinates Mind & Body with Neuro Transmitters which has to get the Positive Vibrations to supply Antioxidants to heal the damaged Tissues or Nerves or Organs which can be Regrown or Regenerated Naturally. Positive Thoughts has the Potential to Change or Achieve Anything. Negative Thoughts has the
Energy to spoil or corrupt anything.
Music is a Communicator of Mood Swings(Happy, Sorrow, Anxities,
Excitements, Sadness)

[toshiba]

Great music. Helps to relax, I would recommend watching the channel

[อาทรปัตย์จติการ]

When we practice and see the truth of the body and mind, we’ll see that it’s not happy sometimes and unhappy at other times like we believed. The body only has major suffering and minor suffering. The mind only has major suffering and minor suffering. When we see things in reality like this, then we can release attachment. When we see things as they really are, then we become disenchanted, we release attachment and liberate.

Do we feel that we’re happy sometimes and unhappy at other times? If that’s how we feel, then we’re not a non-returner (Anagami) yet. We haven’t released the body. We still sense the body’s something that’s happy at times and suffering at other times. When we have these two choices, we choose to make it happy and avoid suffering. There’s craving or wanting for it to be happy and not suffering, for we don’t see the truth that this body is suffering itself. We only see major and minor suffering. We don’t see the truth. We see that the body has some happiness and some unhappiness. So there’s craving because there’s ignorance, or not understanding the truth, not knowing within suffering. So craving arises. Wanting the body to be happy and comfortable forever and not suffer.

See, not knowing that the body is suffering itself, that there’s only major or minor suffering, creates wanting. So ignorance causes craving to arise. Wanting lots of happiness for long periods—forever would be great! — and not wanting suffering. As soon as there’s wanting, then there’s struggle in the mind. The mind can’t be still anymore. It will move around according to the force of wanting. So when there’s craving, becoming, realms of existence are created. Becoming is the fabricating and struggle of the mind.

So let’s practice, and when we see the truth that the body is nothing other than suffering, and the mind is nothing other than suffering… We see the body first. The body is coarser, so it’s easier to see the truth of it than of the mind. So when we practice, we encounter the body first. When we see the body is nothing other than suffering, wanting the body to be happy won’t arise, and wanting the body to not suffer won’t arise. Once wanting doesn’t arise, then struggle won’t happen because that struggle, that becoming, won’t exist. With no becoming, there will be no birth.

[SomosLaNuevaEra]

Música curativa para Atraer el Éxito y la Abundancia a tu vida‚ eleva tu Espíritu y Elimina tus Bloqueos diariamente ❤❤❤️

[balakrishnanbala]

Super app. It is very useful to me. To take view about my syllabus. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

[soothingmusictherapy]

I have a channel about music therapy in youtube and the common finding is it really helps for stress relief.