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Jan 27, 2024 · Activities such as dancing, group singing, solo performances, or musical games are ideal examples of active interventions of music therapy. In receptive or passive interventions, clients are mostly listeners more than performers.
Jun 30, 2022 · If you are a music therapist or an aspiring musician studying music therapy, I am sure that you have already had an impression that skills on keys are important depending on what activities you want to introduce to clients.
- Musical Painting. Music is evocative and expressive. It can inspire creative visual expression! With this exercise, you will use different selections of recorded music to paint or draw to.
- Drum Circle Community Mandala. This group exercise is great for talking about the idea of “support.” As you facilitate a drum circle, one-by-one each group member will add something to a large mandala in the middle of the room.
- Guided Imagery Painting. This exercise can be used in a group or individual setting. Facilitate a music-assisted guided imagery or sensory relaxation, and prompt the participant(s) to re-create on paper what they saw/experienced.
- DIY Instruments. DIY or “do-it-yourself” instruments are a great way to instill a sense of accomplishment and ignite creativity. Also, your clients can take their instruments home, so they can continue making music!
Music has long been recognized for the contribution it can make to people’s health and well-being. Music Therapy is a recognized clinical discipline with well-evidenced benefits for people with disabilities, emotional difficulties, mental health difficulties and a wide variety of additional needs.
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Mar 14, 2019 · I use games to promote appropriate social skills and teamwork; increase focus and attention; increase impulse control; and even increase self-esteem. You wouldn’t believe how much just a little success in a simple game can do for a client’s self image.
Nov 30, 2020 · The therapist can provide an accompaniment on guitar/piano while the client has their solo, and can improvise words based off of what is happening in the moment to the tune of Rudolph. There you have it!
May 11, 2022 · Musical interaction in music therapy, especially musical improvisation, serves as a non-verbal and pre-verbal language (Geretsegger et al., 2014). It allows people who are verbal to gain access to pre-verbal experiences (Geretsegger et al., 2014).
