Music Therapy helps Emily feel more confident and safe, bringing her back to how she was feeling only a few short months ago, prior to being bullied.
A Music Therapist Helps a Youth Recover from Feelings of Being Bullied
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Youth Articles
‘Beat’ the Flu this Season
A study published by Barry Bittman, MD found that group drumming session alters neuroendocrine and immunologic measurements in the participants - this means a boost to your immune system. Drumming was chosen for this study because percussion activities can be an...
Hip-Hop and Your Child
Hip-hop is a significant and unique art-form. It has roots in slavery and oppression and has itself lived the American Dream. Some of its best practitioners are some of the world’s most unique, global and impressionable artists. It can be a sincere form of music. It...
Teachers: 5 Steps to Maximize the Music in Your Classroom
We know that music can: Relax the mind and lower stress levels. Stimulate creativity by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain – going from sleepy brain to teachable brain. Create a clear passage to long-term memory. Change an individuals’s emotional state....
A Misplaced Teen in the Health Care System
Subtlety is another cornerstone of music therapy. The slightest change in music be it tempo, volume, pitch, key, can have tremendous effect on a person’s response to the music.
MM#50 – 5 Recommendations for Using Music with Greater Intention to Change Your Life
Our final musical motivator...# 50 Music is individual - Every person responds to music differently, and any one person may respond to music differently at various times throughout his or her life. Aside from some recent research on rhythm and movement, there are no...
MM#47 – Music Highlights the Possible
Registration for all 2012 JBMT SERVICES AND PROGRAMS (inclusive choir, drum circles, online special for music therapy and adapted music lessons) In another time and place (Saskatchewan, Canada) an opportunity for persons with disabilities to reach their performance...
MM#6 – Who’s Your Bieb?
Do you believe in magic In a young girl's heart How the music can free her Whenever it starts And it's magic if The music is groovy It makes you feel happy Like an old-time movie "Do You Believe in Magic" was written by John Sebastian, originally performed by The...