This article examines how music therapy can improve mood, motivation, emotional status, and cognitive functions in clients with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS can affect a wide range of clinical areas that are also targets in music therapy, including motor control, fatigue, pain, dysphagia, psychiatric disorders, cognitive deficits, and quality of life. Up to 50% of...
Improvisational music therapy increases wellbeing in autistic people. In this study, researchers reconnected with two autistic people who had participated in music therapy as children, to revisit their experiences in music therapy over a decade later, reflect on their childhood experiences, and record a song together. The study used improvised song creation to allow free...
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...
Sarah Grey is a registered member of the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA) and the World Federation of Music Therapy.
The AMTA is a member of Allied Health Professionals Australia (AHPA) and the National Association of Self-Regulating Health Professions (NASRHP).
