About PerScriptive Music
What is Prescriptive Music
Individualized therapeutic music to address a specific issue or need. For example, in working with clients dealing with pain, anxiety, and other issues, the music is tailored to the patient offering tools to yield specific outcomes. This is often accomplished through Music paired with Guided Imagery.
- Pain Management
- Anxiety Management
- Emotional Support
- Relaxation/Sleep
- Motivation/Movement
- Speech Support for Expressive Aphasia
Is This Music Therapy? The services are being offered by a Board Certified/State Certified Music Therapist, but because this is a virtual program, and assessments are not formal. Therefore, I prefer to classify our services as Prescriptive Music vs. formal Music Therapy Sessions.
Digging In: Specific ways Music can be used to achieve Dif
Music to Improve Speech
When individuals have experienced Parkinson's disease, Stroke, or other Neurological Disorders, there can be a loss in one's ability to produce functional/meaningful speech (Expressive Aphasia), or difficulty with articulation, breath support, etc. Therapeutic singing can support many of these goals.
Music for Pain Management
Focus away from the pain and attend to music that is "calming" (unique to each individual); escape with personalized, healing imagery; and participate in therapeutic/rhythmic breathing all at once. Enhanced Guided Imagery.
Anxiety Management
Techniques are similar to those used with pain management, but more attention will be placed on learning and applying various breathing breathing techniques, spoken/written and mindful scripts, and also imagery.
Music to Relax & Induce Sleep
What relaxes one person can irritate another. It is very personal. That is why music to take the edge off , achieve relaxation and induce sleep must be prescriptive and tailored to the individual.
Music to Motivate and Move
We all know that rhythmic music can encourage movement, dancing, etc. The motor centers in the brain fire along with rhythm and rhythmic music. That is why the right kind of music can be a useful tool to get you up and moving. For clients who have notable physical impairments, and specific needs/goals, being very particular with the characterizes of the music and technique for the task, various outcomes can be obtained.
Music for Emotional Health
Attending to various characteristic of music (melody, tonality, lyrics, rhythms, etc), artistically engaging along with music through drawing, writing thoughts/feelings, painting, singing, sign language, movement, etc.) we tap into our creative side allowing us to express ourselves. This can be very helpful when clients are struggling through difficult times, and feel like they have lost themselves. Working through the emotions creatively can be exactly what is needed to begin the process of healing.