Tag Archives: Music Therapy

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  Music and Sleep at CHP

  Posted on January 14, 2014 by Jessica Ryan in Relaxation, Sleep.

    Last week we started a conversation around music and sleep by reviewing some of the research around this topic, and this week we’ll continue the discussion by looking at how music therapists at a local hospital, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (CHP), use music to help kids relax and sleep. Watch the […]

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  Music and Wellness Miscellany

  Posted on December 10, 2013 by Jessica Ryan in Miscellaneous.

    We have several items to share with you today. Item number one relates to last week’s post about music therapists. It is a video that the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) recently shared on its Facebook page. Watch the video to learn about the hospital’s music therapists, Deborah Benkovitz and Nicole Steele, and their […]

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  Who are Music Therapists?

  Posted on December 3, 2013 by Jessica Ryan in Miscellaneous.

    How would you define the term “music therapy”? The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) defines it as “the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.”[i] That “credentialed professional” is, of course, a music therapist. But […]

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