Effects of Verbal Processing on Psychiatric Patients’ Proactive Coping Skills Using Recreational Music Therapy

Music therapy is a non-analytic therapy concerned with the creative process in which an attempt is made to reach the emotions of the patient without recourse to verbal means. It should in theory be suitable for chronic psychotic patients and all whose verbal ability is minimal. The ability to appreciate music may persist despite psychotic disintegration and provides one way, maybe the only way, into a patient's inner life. Music is one aspect of the aesthetic or creative experience that neurotic patients often lack and for this group music may provide a broader view of emotional life than their own more narrow previous experience.

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Music as Co-Therapist: Towards a Taxonomy of Music in Therapeutic Music and Imagery Work

Music and Medicine ◽

10.47513/mmd.v6i2.175 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 16 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Margareta Wärja ◽

Lars Ole Bonde

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Classical Music ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Special Focus ◽

Music Listening ◽

Guided Imagery And Music ◽

Receptive Music Therapy ◽

Bonny Method ◽

Therapeutic Medium ◽

Music And Imagery

In receptive music therapy, music listening is used as a therapeutic medium in many different ways. The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a specific receptive music therapy model where the client or patient listens to selected classical music in an expanded state of consciousness in an ongoing dialogue with the therapist, facilitating symbolic and metaphorical imagery in many modalities. In this model, music is often considered a “co-therapist”, and more than 100 music programs are used to address specific issues and problems. However, no classification of the music used in GIM exists. This article presents a matrix with 3 major categories: 1) Supportive music – 2) Mixed supportive and challenging music – 3) Challenging music, with three subcategories within each category. Based on a review of literature related to music listening in music and medicine the taxonomy is introduced and its relevance for the Bonny Method discussed, with special focus on two adaptations: KMR-Brief Music Journeys and Group Music and Imagery (GrpMI). Vignettes from KMR with one individual cancer patient and from GrpMI sessions with psychiatric patients are presented and related to the taxonomy.

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Using music therapy games with adult psychiatric patients

The Arts in Psychotherapy ◽

10.1016/j.aip.2005.01.006 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 121-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Michael J. Silverman

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Psychiatric Patients

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“When the first session may be the last!”: A case report of the implementation of “rapid tele-psychotherapy” with single-session music therapy in the COVID-19 outbreak

Palliative & Supportive Care ◽

10.1017/s1478951521001425 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Acute Stress ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Rapid Test ◽

Single Session ◽

Psychological Assistance ◽

Therapeutic Assistance ◽

Psychiatric Problems ◽

Regular Number ◽

Psychiatric Issues

Abstract Objective Conventional psychotherapy with a lengthy and regular number of meetings is no longer relevant in the case of COVID-19, when persons with psychiatric problems, especially COVID-19 patients/clients, really require immediate psychological assistance. It is recognized as a “rapid test” in the field of body health to rapidly decide whether or not a person is affected by COVID-19. So, we should now be able to use the term “rapid tele-psychotherapy” with Single-Session Music Therapy (SSMT) in the field of mental health to characterize the mechanism of assistance provided to persons who seek therapeutic assistance virtually during this COVID-19 outbreak, so that they will easily and reliably be freed from troubling psychiatric issues. Method The author reports the case of a 33-year-old widow with asymptomatic COVID-19 who was admitted to her own home. Results The author describes the effectiveness of the implementation of rapid tele-psychotherapy with SSMT in reducing the scale of anxiety, panic, fear, depression, acute stress, insomnia, and delusions of death. Significance of results This case can provide new inputs or ideas for counselors/psychologists/psychiatrists/therapists who work in hospitals/institutions to provide rapid tele-psychotherapy with SSMT as therapeutic assistance for individuals who need psychotherapy in this COVID-19 outbreak, especially for COVID-19 patients/clients. Besides that, this concept is not only suitable for rapidly screening individuals that may face psychological problems and helping them better seek therapeutic assistance, but can also be used as an adjuvant therapy for psychiatric patients.

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