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Music Therapy, Wellness, and Stress Reduction

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Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 546))

Abstract

Music therapy (MT) is an established health profession using music and music activities or interventions to address physical, emotional, cognitive, social, psychological, and physiological needs of infants, children, adolescents, and adults including the elderly, with disabilities or illnesses. MT may also be used with healthy children and adults to maintain wellness throughout life. MT builds on the power of music, using music in a focused and concentrated way for healing and for change. It is a non-invasive medical treatment designed to prevent illness and disease, alleviate pain and stress, help people express feelings, promote physical rehabilitation, positively affect moods and emotional states, enhance memory recall, and provide unique opportunities for social interaction and emotional intimacy.1

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  1. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Suite 5725, Pittsburgh, PA, 15226, USA

    Andrea M. Scheve MM, MT-BC (Director of the UPMC Music Therapy Program)

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Edwin L. Cooper

  2. Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan

    Nobuo Yamaguchi

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Scheve, A.M. (2004). Music Therapy, Wellness, and Stress Reduction. In: Cooper, E.L., Yamaguchi, N. (eds) Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 546. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4820-8_19

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