Improvisation
Music Education
Psychotherapy
Context
Miscellaneous
100

Name one approach that traditionally uses improvisation

What is 

Aesthetic Music Therapy or

Analytic Music Therapy or

Benenzon Music Therapy or

Creative Music Therapy (Nordoff-Robbins)

100

Name one approach from music education that has been adapted by music therapists

What is 

Dalcroze or

Orff or 

Kodaly or

Music Learning Theory

100

Name one approach developed from an approach in psychotherapy

What is 

Behavioral or 

Cognitive Behavioral or 

Benenzon Music Therapy or

Resource-Oriented Music Therapy

100

This approach, pioneered by Carlyn Kenny, Even Ruud and Brynjulf Stige, believes that culture is a resource for clients to connect with one another and transcend barriers

What is culture-centered music therapy

100

This approach is based on research about the effects of music on brain functioning

What is Neurologic Music Therapy

200

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy believes that everyone has a musical ______ that responds to music

What is self

Also accepted: What is child

200

This approach uses barred pitched instruments with repetitive patterns called ostinati (singular: ostinato)

What is Orff-based Music Therapy

200

In this approach, music therapists shape behavior, with music acting as a cue, reinforcement or to structure responses

What is the behavioral approach

200

One goal of this approach is affect attunement, or the ability to share emotional states with others. This is foundational for family members to communicate with one another

What is family-based music therapy

200

This method, developed by Helen Bonny, uses receptive music experiences to expand consciousness and increase personal awareness

What is the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music 

300

This approach typically uses two music therapists, one who improvises (often on the piano), and another who assists the client

Nordoff-Robbins or Creative Music Therapy

300

This approach understands music as a sensory experience with a focus on physical movement called eurhythmics

What is the Dalcroze Eurhythmics approach
300

This approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors 

What is Cognitive-Behavioral Music Therapy

300

This approached is not limited to women but can be used with any marginalized group

What is Feminist-Informed Music Therapy

300

This approach considers music as a situated activity, one that depends on  social interactions and responses. Music therapists are encouraged to be reflexive about their own cultural identities and those of their clients

What is Culture-centered music therapy

400

This approach focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of music in clinical practice

What is Aesthetic Music Therapy

400

This approach has a focus on folk songs and musical literacy, promoting singing before instrument playing

What is the Kodaly approach

400

This approach, first developed in South America and influenced by psychoanalytic and psychotherapy techniques, focuses on the client's development of a musical sound identity through the use of the iso principle

What is Benenzon Music Therapy
400

This approach believes that music making is a rights-based and socially engaged practice. A music therapist may have a goal of greater inclusion and access and eventually may no longer be needed when the program is sustainable.

What is community music therapy (CoMT)

400

Issues of power, both between the therapist and client as well as in the music itself, is of utmost importance in this approach

What is Feminist-Informed Music therapy

500

Juliette Alvin and Mary Priestly are the main contributors of this psychodynamic approach to music therapy

What is Analytic Music Therapy

500

Developed by Gordon, this approach focuses on a sequential and developmental approach of a child's ability to audiate or "hear" music internally

What is the Music Learning Theory approach

500

Clifford Madsen, a music education and music therapy pioneer, emphasized empirical research to determine the effectiveness of music interventions. He championed this approach in music therapy. 

What is the behavioral approach

500

In this approach, a therapist collaborates with the client within their social context and empowers clients to find their resources for wellness and self-healing

What is resource-oriented music therapy

500

This approach uses the transformational design model to transfer non-musical interventions to musical interventions

What is Neurologic Music Therapy?

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