Music Therapy

Thesis: Is Music Therapy Effective?

Ⅰ. Is music therapy effective on psychopathology?

A. children with psychopathology

B. adolescents with psychopathology

Ⅱ. Is music therapy effective on anxiety?

A. pregnant women and baby

Ⅲ. Is music therapy effective on older people?

A. depression on old age

B. effect of music

Conclusion :Music is very useful therapy.

God made all the parts of our body such as eyes, arms, legs for humans and gave us the controllability about them. For example, if human hates to see something, he would close his eyes, also if he does not want to go somewhere, he will not go there. However, there is only one part of our body that humans cannot control. It is the Ear. Sometimes there are some sounds that we really hate. Representative sound about this may be the scolding of mom. Our mind tends to change according to listening to something such as positive words, classical music, or rock music. Especially, many scientists have being tried treatments through music recently in order to cure people who have some problems mentally. As the general method for music therapy, there is “Free and structured improvisation, singing familiar songs or improvised songs, listening to music, and verbal reflection of the musical processes” in relation to patient’s problems (“Effectiveness of music therapy for children,” 2005, ¶1). In fact, we can strangely feel the facts that people who have mental problems can be cured by music because there is no way to know exactly whether the diseases of these patients really get well or not. Nevertheless, there have been various experiments to prove the fact that music therapy is very effective to these patients. Music therapy can be clearly proved as the effectiveness about following three elements.

First, music therapy is being used for people who have several mental disorders (Effects of music therapy for children, 2007, ¶1).

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