Sickle cell anemia is an inherited red blood cell disorder, in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body. A new study from University Hospitals (UH) Connor Whole Health found that patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) who participated in music therapy learned new self-management skills and improved their ability to cope with pain.
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Spoke Launches Music Therapy App for Gen Z, Raises $1.5M Round Led by Ada Ventures
Apps like Calm and Endel are exploring an expanding new universe of what’s becoming known as “functional sound”. Calm and others are doing it in the meditation and sleep space, while Endel, which has raised $7.5 million, creates “functional sound” to enhance working or other activities.
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Introducing Social Emotional Learning to Music Education Professional Development
There are more knowledge bases, skills, and dispositions that teachers need to have than can be covered in undergraduate music teacher education. One knowledge base that music teachers could benefit from, which is rarely covered in preservice teacher education, is social emotional learning (SEL) and techniques to implement it in their classrooms. Professional development (PD) can help provide career-long growth.
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Music Education and Social Emotional Learning
Music educators are in a prime position to help students become socially and emotionally competent while at the same time develop excellent musicianship. For every child to be successful in the music classroom, teachers need to be aware of the whole student.
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Effects of Music Therapy on Depression and Duration of Hospital Stay of Breast Cancer Patients After Radical Mastectomy
Breast cancer remains the most important cancer among women worldwide. The disease itself and treatment may have a profound impact on the patients’ psychological well being and quality of life. Depression is common in breast cancer patients and affects the therapeutic effects as well as prolongs the duration of hospital stay.
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Doctors Develop Music-Making App To Battle Brain Fog In Cancer Patients
Doctors from the University of Cincinnati are researching innovative ways to battle brain fog, and a new study has tested the waters of virtual music therapy.
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Music and Environmental Studies
The use of music in environmental education (EE) can help to inform students through ideas incorporated in musical lyrics, while also enhancing interest in environmental topics. Music can also enhance perceptions of the value of the natural world, especially when nature itself is recognized as being musical.
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Music Therapy as Postvention for Survivors of Suicide: A Group Case Study
The bereaved and those who have experienced trauma have received support through music therapy. However, there has been no research on the effectiveness of music therapy as a therapeutic intervention for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one by suicide.
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Effects of Music Therapy on Depression: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
The paper aimed to determine and compare the effects of music therapy and music medicine on depression, and explore the potential factors associated with the effect. The results show that music therapy and music medicine both exhibited a stronger effects of short and medium length compared with long intervention periods.
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Case Study: Social and Emotional Learning in the Age of Covid
This paper examines how two organizations, Hello Insight and Guitars Over Guns, have teamed up to measure the impact of Guitars Over Guns’ music mentoring programs on their participants and specifically through the lens of Social and Emotional Learning and the Theory of Change. Both of these important concepts are described in the body of this document.
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