Diagnoses
Interventions
History
Non-Musical Goals
Acronyms
100

A severe, chronic mental disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, perception and behavior, with common symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

Schizophrenia

100

This neurologic music therapy intervention utilizes songs, rhymes, and/or chants to simulate prosodic speech gestures and trigger automatic speech, used particularly with non-fluent or expressive aphasia

Musical Speech Stimulation (MUSTIM)

100

In this decade, US medical facilities recognized the value of music therapy and employed music programs to assist in the physical and mental rehabilitation of patients

1950s

100

This is one non-musical goal that MT can address for an individual with PD

Slower gait cadence, increased vocal volume, increased verbal articulation, ROM

100

MT

music therapy/music therapist

200

This is an age-related disorder characterized by multiple cognitive deficits impairing social and occupational functioning, including memory loss.

Dementia

200

List 3 interventions commonly used in hospice music therapy for anxiety reduction

live music-making

respiration entrainment

guided imagery

music & art

songwriting

lyric anaysis

music & movement

200

In this decade, the first hospice in the US was established

1970s (1974)

200

This is a non-musical goal for a child with ASD who plays alone at school

Increase social interaction; increase turn taking ability, Increase expressive language

200

RAS

Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation

300
A progressive neurologic disorder stemming from a lack of dopamine, characterized by motor coordination deficits and often cognitive impairments and swallowing difficulty. Treatment includes an exercise regimen and dopaminergic medication.

Parkinson's Disease

300

This neurologic music therapy intervention uses melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic components of music to emulate the force, space, and time components of movement. The music mimics the movement, indicating how, when, and with what level of effort to move. It is often used for range of motion or motor coordination exercises.

Patterned Sensory Enhancement (PSE)

300

This person, who offered MT services to Canadian soldiers, during WWI, offered the first university affiliated coursework in music therapy in 1919

Margaret Anderton

300

This intervention targets improvement of articulatory control, respiratory strength, and function of the speech apparatus 

OMREX (Oral Motor and Respiratory Exercises)

300

CVA

cerebrovascular accident / stroke

400

A musculoskeletal disorder caused by inflammation of the joints, cartilage, and bone, resulting in movement difficulties, stiffness, swelling and pain

Osteoarthritis

400

This neurologic music therapy intervention provides an external auditory stimulus to initiate, sustain, and modify a motor function, often used in gait training. 

Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS)

400

This woman founded St. Christopher Hospice in London in 1967, thought to be a foundational contributor to the modern hospice practice

Cicely Saunders

400

This term describes the non-musical goal of mood modification, where live music matches the non-preferred emotions/actions of a stimulus and then gradually transitions/modifies to a preferred state.

Iso-principle

400

SOB

shortness of breath / dyspnea

500

These are 3 criteria required for an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, in regards to social communication and interaction:

1. Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity

2. Deficits in Non-verbal communication

3. Deficits in developing and maintaining relationships

500

This neurologic music therapy intervention is the use of intoned phrases simulating the prosody, inflection, and pacing of normal speech. This is done through vocal exercises which train all aspects of voice control including: inflection, pitch, breath control, timbre, and dynamics.

Vocal Intonation Therapy (VIT)

500

This individual established the first internship training site in the US and started the first graduate music therapy program in the US, championing the field from the 40s-60s

Thayer Gaston

500

This is an example of a non-musical goal for an individual with schizophrenia experiencing frightening hallucinations

Reality orientation, provide diversion away from delusions and hallucinations, open communication with peers, identify and express emotions, reduce stress and anxiety, control aggressive and destructive impulses by identifying triggers, learn adaptive behavior patterns which allow client to function normally in society 

500

COPD

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder

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