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Definition

Music therapy is a psychotherapeutic intervention provided by health professionals and is defined as the evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions within a therapeutic relationship ( American Music Therapy Association).

Profits

Music therapy can promote and favor benefits in different dimensions of the human being:

SOCIAL

  • Friendship

  • Social interaction and social networking skills

  • Sense of belonging

  • Teamwork and cooperation

  • Self discipline

  • Sense of accomplishment

  • Responsibility and social respect

  • Commitment

  • Mutual support and social cohesion

  • Social bonding to meet group goals

  • Communication

COGNITIVE

  • Space-time abilities

  • Reasoning

  • Attention

  • The ability to better process, understand and handle language

  • Memory

  • Creativity

PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • Facilitates self-expression and release of emotional tension

  • Increases emotional sensitivity

  • Promotes emotional management and identification

  • Improves mood

  • Promotes empathy

  • Identify and manage automatic maladaptive thought processes (rumination)

  • Facilitates calm

  • Promotes self-knowledge

  • Increase well-being

  • Brain hygiene

  • Self-confidence

  • Promotes reflection and awareness

PHYSICAL

  • Promotes locomotor movement

  • Improve motor skills

  • Promotes dexterity

  • Activation of the immune system

  • Improves breathing

  • Improves the adoption of good posture

  • Stress reduction

  • Release body tension

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