Posts Tagged ‘music therapy’
Boise hospital to develop music therapy program for cancer patients
BOISE — Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center plans to create a music therapy program to help more than 1,000 cancer patients and their loved ones in 2014. Read more here…
Listening to gospel music benefits mental health of older people

A new research has found that listening to religious music among older Christians is associated with a decrease in anxiety about death and increases in life satisfaction, self-esteem,M and sense of control over their lives. Read more here…
Study uses music therapy to help fix ‘chemo brain’
The Mercy Medical Center’s Healing Power of Music Chorus has been preparing for a benefit concert with the Maryland State Boychoir on May 4, but there’s something else going on at the hospital for a few of the participants. They’re also part of a study about using music to help recover from chemo brain. Read more here…
Therapy: Doctors Turn to Music

Medicos in the city took an altogether different role on Wednesday. In a novel initiative, a group of doctors from various hospitals in the city turned the Government General Hospital into a music therapy lab by singing melodies to the patients. Read more here…
UHC Needs Your Help In Bringing Music Therapy to Cancer Patients
UHC has been named a finalist in the LIVESTRONG Community Impact Project. That means they could be getting the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Music Therapy Program to their cancer center. This program has been proven to help provide comfort and support to patients. Read more here…
CSU Music Therapy host fundraiser at Avogadro’s Number

CSU is home to one of the nations’s leading music therapy programs, and they need Ram suppoort. They’re holding a fundraiser at Avogadro’s Number, Thursday, April 17 at 630 p.m where the O’Connor Brothers physically, mentally and emotionally therapeutic use of music in a clinical environment. Read more here…
Reporter’s Notebook: Music therapy licensure stalled
Music therapists in Minnesota will have to wait at least another year to get a license. The bill was stopped in its tracks by a costly new licensing system just for music therapists, who would have to pay $4,575 each to get licensed. Read more here…
Music therapy programs hosted by Indian Hill in Harvard

Indian Hill Music School will offer an eight-week music therapy program, at 10 a.m., beginning Tuesday, April 22, at the Harvard Council on Aging, Hildreth House. Read more here…
Therapists use music as a tool to deliver treatment

WASHINGTON — Three-and-a-half-year-old Emma Quick runs into a room filled with instruments spread out across the floor. Her energy and excitement cause her blonde pig tails to bounce above her blue polka-dot shirt. Read more here…
Loss, love and the healing power of music

HOW we deal with depression caused by sorrow and loss is different for each one of us. While there are stages of grieving that might be common — shock, numbness, anger, denial, sorrow, resignation, acceptance and healing — how we deal with fate depends on our character, experience of life and the help and influence of those we love. Read more here…