Abstract The experiment was taking an in-depth look at how the sound, the tempo, and the pace of music can affect a student’s concentration, study habits, and performance. The goals of the study were to determine if, in fact, music has an effect on comprehension and accuracy. Students participated in this research study that consisted of ten study problems, and five-word problems. Each testing phase consisted of fast music and slow music, and then there was a phase of silence...
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Family Counseling Approach Research Paper Abstract This research intends to identify leading figures, historical and current events, assumptions, development of the theory, concepts, and techniques related to Structural Theory. It will describe how integrating biblical scriptures and the writer’s own faith and family counseling approach to help the family that is in need. In the writing, the intent is to demonstrate the knowledge, concepts, and family approach to this theory and how it relates to other leading theories that are...
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Abstract When approaching the idea of family counseling, one must decide which approach would be best to recommend as well as an implement with clients. The structural model approach is a unique approach to counseling and is all about organization, family rules, and roles. Using this approach is about focusing on the constructs of the family and identifying solutions based on subsystems, boundaries, and organizational metaphors. This approach identifies functional and dysfunctional patterns through how the family responds to its...
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Introduction Research has shown that family plays a vital role in a person’s spiritual, emotional, and physical development. However, no family is perfect, and some families will encounter struggles, trauma, and disagreements. The key to having a strong family system is being able to acknowledge the needs of each family member. Family therapy can help families identify needs, changes, and behavior patterns in the family structure. Family therapy is a form of treatment that seeks to reduce discomfort and conflict...
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As one evolves throughout their career as a therapist, they may decide to work with clients individually as well as with the individual and their family. Understanding and know the different types of theories and techniques utilized in family therapy will help a professional in the mental health field be an effective therapist. A few theories that one may benefit in knowing and should be familiar with are Strategic, Structural, and Milan Systemic family theories. It is also necessary for...
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In the following essay, I have chosen to speak about the concept of engagement as I feel it is a very important aspect of family therapy if it is to be a success. In my work as a nurse in the self-harm team, looking after young people between the ages of 12-18 who are experiencing self-harm, suicidal ideation, and/or suicide attempts, I am often meeting with families in a crisis situation. This calls for a rapid engagement with the young...
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A large amount of teenagers in today’s age demonstrate a popular liking towards music for a variety of reasons. From bubblegum pop to heavy metal, music is known to be a basis of expression and identity for many. Several studies and research conducted over the years have supported the claim that music does take a toll on the emotional responses of people, identifying what draws people to enjoy music as much as they do. Coping mechanisms come into play when...
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ABSTRACT Music is a universal language as it helps us communicate across cultural and semantic boundaries. Both music and language serve the same purpose as they both are forms of expression. It reaches deep into one's experience. Language is a communicating system. Music has all the components that a communicating system should accommodate that is consisting of a set of meaningful symbols and rules for combining them to form sentences. In some circumstances, music works better than spoken words as...
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For many, music is seen simply as something to keep you entertained while you walk to class, take a jog, etc. It is simply a past-time that most people could live without. This is why it is difficult for most people to see music as able to mend a person’s mental health. Those who haven’t experienced emotional healing through music will not understand how it is able to do so. Then there are others who have a strong attraction towards...
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More than one million people in this country are living with Parkinson’s disease (Parkinson’s Disease Foundation), and by 2030, the number of people living with PD is expected to double (Dorsey ER, Constantinescu R, Thompson JP, et al 2007), its symptoms including bradykinesia, rigidity, tremors, freezing, problems in gait and impaired balance and coordination. Coupled with this are also several non-motor problems such as, cognitive impairment and depression (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2011) and reduced quality of life (Bloem...
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My sinological research project is on how Hip Hop culture is influencing Chinese youth culture through music, fashion and entertainment ? This will be my main question for my project however it will be clearly split between fashion, music and entertainment. The first subtopic that I will be searching into is music. I will research into this by listening to Chinese Hip Hop music by prominent Hip Hop artists such as VaVa and Kris Wu. I will first do my...
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This essay is about providing a clear unified methods to examine the music psychotherapy and came up with a written rules for it that can make it easier to practice it, but the “Kenneth E. Bruscia” says that in term to reach that we should ask the following questions: What is psychotherapy? How is music used for psychotherapeutic purposes? What characterizes a psychodynamic orientation to music therapy? But these questions are difficult to be answer, since the answers comes from...
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Music is a part of human life from the beginning the first ever melody created by the human mind is somewhat 5000 years old. Ancient people used to do music to enjoy their on goings –spend time with family while singing happy and cheerful songs, but the with passage of time it changed a lot. Now, we use music from publicity to cure anything –even a single add on television is useless without music. With time people started using it...
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Numerous researches ensure that the inclusion of songs and/or sound-musical elements in teaching that brings benefits in the learning process of linguistic, affective and sociolinguistic levels. Music serves as an instrument for learning and put into practice in teaching and in different educational procedures, it can become a very useful tool, to corroborate this information first quantitatively studied if students with advanced hearing skills learned one more effectively and if they also showed a high level of development of musical...
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Music as Therapy Music therapy is the use of music to aid in the recovery of stress related illness and other mental disorders. It can improve mood and self-expression, aid in grief, relaxation etc. It has been used for millennia from the ancient Greeks to modern day. Music Therapy can be applied in a number of ways, to aid in the recovery memory loss, can be used to help with cognitive and social skills as well as emotional and behavioural...
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This research study was inspired by those who suffer mental illnesses and by those who claim to have been helped by music therapy or music alone. This research aims to help, to prove, to raise awareness, to share knowledge and to give answers to the questions, “Is music therapy really effective? And if so, is it more effective than other methods? “. The problem is that a lot of people today are struggling with their own mental or emotional distress...
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Research studies in the past have examined the effect of music therapy on socio-emotional reciprocity in children with ASD (Kim, Wigram, & Gold, 2009; Srinivasan et al., 2015; Thompson, McFerran, & Gold, 2013; Venuti et al., 2017). In the first study of this section, Kim et al. (2009) investigated the characteristics of musical interaction that motivate interpersonal engagement between the therapist and the child. Ten children aged 3 to 5 were recruited from a psychiatric institution for examination in the...
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Music Therapy is a modern healing discipline that has gained a lot of popularity in the last few decades. It is quite a broad topic because, despite its recent origins (around the 1950s), it involves many different branches, methods, and approaches. Music Therapy can have a wide variety of aims, according to a patient's need. It can work on both a psychological and a physical level, on both cognitive and emotional skills, or it can help in the recovery of...
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Music is a way that expresses how we feel, what we think, or helps represent what is going on in our lives. Songs can change attitudes, emotions, and actions. It is going unknown and becoming less appreciated by all it does. Music has been around for ages being apart of the pharaohs of Egypt, Native American rituals, and as late as 1933 during the movie King Kong where the music scoring technique was used to have music in movies. Before...
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Many argue that music classes in schools are useless to students. Some parents believe that their kids need standard classes such as Language Arts and Math. These parents do not realize the tremendous mental benefits that music classes have. Most students are stressed while they are at school. The amount of schoolwork given, level of difficulty, and extracurriculars can bring anxiety to many if not all students. Music classes are proven to boost the mental health of students. Due to...
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You may be a little bit confused when having a glimpse of this topic, I guess most Hong Kong citizens do the same. Generally speaking, music therapy is not a hot topic in Hong Kong, but music actually is a good medium to assist patients. This treatment involves three types: music programs, passive and active music therapy. (Gold et al., 2011). I believe that music therapy should be introduced in Hong Kong mainstream schools as a new methodology to improve...
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In view of the fact, it has been known to cure depression . Music can help people cope and allows people to get in touch with inner emotions, and it gives people happiness. Comment by Darius McKnight: “I think the music is in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity . It's something were all touched by no matter what culture were from , everyone loves music” - Billy joel . In reality everywhere we go we hear...
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It began with the little things. Firstly, she forgot my name. Next, she sent my mum three birthday cards. She then was forced to give up playing the church organ since she played too many or too few verses, or even the completely wrong tune. My family and I could only do our best to adapt and support my Auntie Shelia as our worst fears were realised; she was diagnosed with dementia. ‘Someone in the world develops dementia every three...
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Dr. Debasish Mridha states, “Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” Search the benefits of harmonized that you never knew because it is not just melody, tune, or lyrics, but it has a soul. Music has become our friend since the first time we knew it, and perhaps we knew since we still a child. When we are happy, we enjoy playing rock songs, but when we are sad, the mellow song is the best way to entertain...
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Abstract Indian tradition has a considerable amount of empirical musicology research on studying the cognitive impact of swara (musical notes), sruti (pitch) and laya (rhythm) on the human brain. However, there has hardly been any neuro-scientific exploration of these effects of music on human brain using the inherent strengths of Indian classical music. This paper discuses about the importance and need to have such efforts and also describes some of the original works in this direction. Introduction Indian tradition has...
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The study found that musical preference is something that might change with time or mood, while musical taste is a long term trait. This source brings up the interesting comparison between music and personality with the Big Five personality characteristics; instead of making five main categories of music based on music, they are based on personality traits. “The factor analysis revealed the presence of five major factors named as - Intense and Electronic; Devotional and Cultural; Emotional and Melodious; Spiritual...
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According to a survey, constructed by the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing in 2007, nearly half of adult population (aged 16-85) experienced a mental health disorder within 12-month or lifetime period, while the most common diagnoses among mental illnesses are depression and anxiety (Tiller, 2013). Other research estimated that 39% of consumers with Anxiety Disorder had symptoms of depression (Hunt, Issakidis, & Andrews, 2002). On the other hand, music therapy intervention was found to effectively improve depression and...
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Introduction My playlist is compiled with the aim of aiding a physical exercise routine that I would typically do to maintain my physical health. I wanted to create a music listening experience that would enable me to have increased motivation and energy as I undertook moderate to high-intensity exercise, as well as elicit a calmer mood as I finished the exercise portion and entered the cool down/relaxation portion of my routine. I have an extensive playlist that I frequently use...
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Introduction Dementia is not one specific disease but is rather a group of conditions that can be characterised by the loss of at least two vital brain functions such as memory loss and judgement. The symptoms of which can be substantial, including but not limited to forgetfulness, a limited set of social skills and long- or short-term memory loss. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia which affects up to 70% of all dementia patients. It is a...
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Music takes on several different roles in our society today. Whether it be accompanying you on your daily commute, setting the scene for what is about to happen in a movie, or providing motivation to power through a workout, music can be found virtually anywhere for various reasons. Aside from these simple, everyday situations that music is a part of, it is also responsible for altering one’s state of mind. Listening to an upbeat, cheery song on the way to...
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