If I could write a “hello song” for the MusicWorx Inc. Blog debut, I would! Welcome to the wonderful world of MusicWorx Inc. As a current MusicWorx intern, I have designed this Blog as a final project to learn the use of social media and…
Examples of recent intern mandalas. Learn more about mandalas and how they coincide with Music Therapy! Create your own mandala today! Ideas to think about while creating your mandala: Listening to music (familiar songs, unfamiliar music, different genres of music, etc.) Using only two favorite colors…
Source: World Federation of Music Therapy Writer: Petra Kern, PhD, MT–DMtG, MT–BC, MTA, NICU–MT We proudly announce our first World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT) Assembly of Student Delegates. The WFMT Council sees students as a vital part of this organization as they are the next…
Publication: Springfield News Leader Writer: Cliff Sain Music can bring joy to its listeners, but at Drury’s Music Therapy department, it brings a whole lot more. On a Friday afternoon, music therapist Leslie Jones plays an electric keyboard, encouraging 6-year-old Emma Follis to finish the…
A. Blythe La Gasse, PhD, NMT, MT–BC received a $15,000 Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Fund Award last week at the AMTA national conference in Cleveland, OH. Titled “The Effect of Music Therapy Groups on the Social Skills of Children with Autism,” Dr. La Gasse’s study will employ a…
Music Therapy Resource publisher Matt Logan states that there were many wonderful entries to this contest sponsored by the Iowa Chapter of Music Therapy. But Lindsay’s song won for the following reasons: “Very effective in its clean and predicatable simplicity.” “. . . Lindsay’s voice…
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…