It's the main difference between Endemic and Pandemic...
Endemic: exclusive to one geographic location or small population
Pandemic: spans worldwide
A music therapist is working with a brain injury patient on Cognition, specifically with Executive Functioning Skills. Explain both of these terms...
Cognition: Wide range of mental processes that deal with gaining information and understanding that information. Examples are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making...etc.
Executive Fxn: Higher Level cognition skills that help us manage daily life. Examples are planning, organizing, regulating emotion, working memory, and task initiation.
You are working with someone facing terminal illness who is having difficulty expressing their anxiety and fears using conventional talk therapy. A possible Music Therapy intervention to help with this may be...
What is songwriting, lyric analysis
Its why a music therapist should avoid the phrase..."How does that song make you feel"?
It puts the responsibility of the felt emotion on the song, rather than having the client claim ownership and acceptance of their emotions. A song can't force you or make you feel anything...that has to come from within the person and their relationship to the song and surrounding life experiences