Prescribing Sound: Willem Van de Wall and the Carceral Origins of American Music Therapy

American Music Therapy Association

Description: Music Therapy (MT) is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. MT with seriously mentally ill clients is a psychotherapeutic method that uses musical interaction as a means of communication and expression. The aim...

American Music Therapy Association

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Music therapists commonly serve persons with mental health and functional wellness issues in a variety of settings including public and private psychiatric hospitals or schools, mental health centers, private practice, community-based programs, correctional and forensic facilities, and substance abuse treatment programs. Music therapists use defined music interventions fou...

American Music Therapy Association

Musical processing can be decomposed into the appreciation of global and local elements. This global/local dissociation was investigated with the processing of contourviolated and interval-violated melodies. Performance of a group of 16 children with Williams syndrome and a group of 16 control children were compared in a same-different task. Control participants were more accurate in detecting ...

American Music Therapy Association

Hospital records and data on the treatment/habilitation status of 187 children with autism aged 3-18 years were gathered from Northern Finland. The treatment programs and therapies varied, depending on the trained staff available. One-hundred and fifty-two (82.9%) children and adolescents with autism received more than one therapeutic intervention or specific training program. The most common t...

Willem A . de Graaf