It’s that time of the year when we reflect on the last 12 months of our lives…
…and I must say…
The year 2011 can be referred to as,
“The year music therapy was ALL OVER THE NEWS”
With movies, books, and celebrity promotors, music therapy has been hard to miss!
Here are just a few of the recent articles and videos
that have appeared in the last year:
January
Article: Music therapy eases patients’ pain, helps on road to recovery
Video: Facing Rehab: Exhaustion, Exhilaration and Love.
Article/Video: Music therapy eases patients’ pain, helps on road to recovery
Article: Initial stages of rehab keeping Giffords busy “Neurologic music is a therapy – often talked about for Giffords – that involves playing music for patients to help stimulate their brain. It also helps speech as patients mouth or sing the words of songs.”
February
Article: Music therapist enriches the lives of special-needs teens and adults
Article: Hospital Selected For Therapy Grant
Video/Article: Inside Giffords’ rehab: Hard work, hard questions
Video: A healing note: Music therapy
March
Book: (main character is a MT) Sing You Home debuts at #1 on the USA Today book list, and at #1 on the NYT print & e-book list!
Article/Video: Music Therapy Helps Gabrielle Giffords Find Her Voice After Tucson Shooting
April
Article: Educating communities about evidenced-based benefits of music therapy
May
Article: Don’t Write Off Dementia Patients (Wall Street Journal)
June
Article: What Is Music Therapy? (Huffington Post)
Blurb: Music Therapy Licensure Legislation Signed into Law
July
Article: Music therapy moving toward licensure in state
Article: Relaxing, Touching the Memory, Music Helps With the Final Transition
Article: Music Therapy Helps Facilitate the Field’s First Licensure Law
August
Movie: Movie featuring a music therapist released on DVD: The music never stopped named 2011 official selection of the Sundance Film Festival
Article: Doctor, Can You Prescribe Me Some Mozart?
Article: Music Therapy May Aid Brain-Damaged Patients
September
Video: Music Therapy for Seniors
October
Article: Music Alters Autism Therapy
Video: Music therapy hitting right notes for patients
Article on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Blog: Speech-Language Therapy and Music Therapy Collaboration
November
Article: Music therapy plays role in Giffords recovery
Article: Meet therapy team helping Giffords
Video/Article: Gabby Giffords: Finding Words Through Song
Video: Healing with Music Therapy
Article: Music therapy a big hit with patients at local hospital
Article/Audio/ Video: Down syndrome and music therapy
Video/Article: Music therapy can help retrain an injured brain
December
Article: Music therapy heals the ill and calms Soledad prison inmates in real, measurable ways.
Article: Music Therapy helps Mt. Evelyn woman dull pain
Radio: Music Therapy Featured on NPR’s Science Friday
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Here’s to EVEN MORE music therapy news in 2012
Michelle Erfurt
THANK YOU!!!! The old AMTA website used to have something like this but I haven’t been able to locate it on the new site. So needed this!
Rachel Smith, MA, MT-BC
YAY! So glad you can use it! It was fun sorting through old tweets, blogs, and FB feeds to find these articles…I’m impressed with how many there were this year!! An exciting time to be a MT, for sure :).
Kat Fulton
Holy sha-zoli! This is AH-mazing that you’ve put this together! In fact, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks for being an awesome resource, Rachel!
Rachel Smith, MA, MT-BC
Love your enthusiasm, Kat! (And I now want to use the phrase ‘holy sha-zoli’ as often as I can!) :).
SO glad you are able to use this and thanks so much for letting me know about the article from May that featured your amazing quotes!! Please let me know if you think of any others that should be included! Thanks!
Tracy Flanders, MT-BC
Thank you so much for this compilation.
Rachel Smith, MA, MT-BC
I’m so happy to do it – thanks for reading! It’s kind of nice to have a virtual “scrapbook” of articles to remind us of how great 2011 was for our field!