Clinical Music Therapy

11 October

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Reaching For a New Approach: The Music Therapy Applications of Sansulas and Kalimbas

Source: Therapy Times   Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. The music therapy field is continually adapting new music, interventions, and instruments to provide therapeutic…

30 June

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Rock-and-Roll Therapy

11 December

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Rebecca Vaudreuil, Music Therapist

Source: Your Magazine   Since the January 8th shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, there has been a surge in media coverage on her rehabilitation. The focus has been on her use of music therapy, a field that has grown in popularity over the last decade. ABC News…

01 May

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The Power of Music

Publication: Inside Scripps   “Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!” –J.K. Rowling Margaret Speyer is an oncology patient at Scripps La Jolla and has been in the hospital for almost three weeks. On this day, she is recovering from recent chemotherapy treatment and…

01 November

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Campus Spotlight: Music Therapy

Publication: Around La Jolla Author / Writer: Barbara Reuer, PhD, NMT–F, MT–BC   As many people know, music has been used in medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Greek philosophers believed that music could heal both the body and the soul. And, Native Americans have used singing…

01 June

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Healing with Music

Publication: Caring Today: Practical Advice for the Family Caregiver Author / Writer: Deborah Harkins   What balm can doctors or caregivers offer a human being whose life has been derailed by a devastating impairment—dementia, say, or a crippling accident, or paralysis, or the loss of the ability…

13 January

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The Calming Sound of Music Therapy Aims to Silence Skeptic

Publication: La Jolla Light Author / Writer: Will Carless   Ginny Shue was decidedly skeptical when she first heard about a music therapy course offered by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. The law professor, who admits to having an “analytical brain,” thought the whole thing sounded…

01 November

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The Sounds of Wellness:  Music Therapy is Coming of Age in the Patient Care Setting

Publication: Nurses World Magazine Author / Writer: Kathleen A. Wildasin   “He could move his eyes, fingers, and toes when I met him, but could no longer speak,” says Barbara Reuer, PhD, MT-BC. “I had to find a way to connect with a teenager whose world was…

01 January

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Music’s Balm

Publication:  InTouch Magazine, Volume 3, 1 Author: Barbara Boughton     For Kathy Winter, chemotherapy treatments at Cleveland-Ireland Cancer Center were an anxiety-filled ordeal. “I was so desperate, and so frightened of chemotherapy that I felt like bolting out of the treatment room,” she says….

01 November

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The Magic of Music

Publication: Case Management Journal Author / Writer: Mindy R. Toran   When you hear a song you like on the radio, your entire mood lightens. You sing along, hum the chorus, or snap your fingers. Listening to a tape or CD of your favorite artist help you…