"As He Himself Puts it" Post

The American Music Therapy Association states that, "Music Therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals." They continue on and explain how exactly a music therapist accomplishes their work, "After assessing the strengths and needs of each client, the qualified music therapist provides the indicated treatment." These types of doctors believe that by guiding their clients to create, dance to, or simply listen to different kinds of music, an outlet is created or rather, "Avenues of communication" for patients to express their feelings, feelings that may be difficult to express in words. I believe it's safe to say everyone has had that artist or song that got them through a hard phase of their life, or even just a hard day. It's for that reason I believe music therapy is such a promising new form of medicine. It's something we can all relate to no matter where we're from or what we're going through.