This article examined whether music therapy promotes emotional skills in adolescents with a mental health condition, and whether those skills transfer to real life situations. “Emotional skills” were arranged into 6 categories, ranging from awareness, expression, and understanding of self and others’ emotions, and regulating one’s own emotions. This information was then broken into skill...
This study found walking was markedly improved through the use of music after a stroke. The principle is that musical sounds entrain movement through the auditory system (a core element of Neurologic Music Therapy). Aural cues from music can correct neuromotor defecits causing gait asymmetries. The participants needed only 30 minutes of music to see...
This article examined music therapy in the Nordoff-Robbins tradition in young adult autistic* clients. It interviewed clients about their experiences participating in music therapy and confirmed that music therapy is shown to develop peer relationships, develop the self, and develop sociocultural identity in young autistic adults. Sarah Grey trained in the Nordoff-Robbins tradition at Western...
