Throughout its long history, music has played an indispensable role in our lives. Listening to music enables us to relax and calm down, and composing and playing music have been good ways to express our feelings and emotions. Music therapy has been set up to cure more people systematically. In this study, the authors reviewed the history of music therapy and focused on several aspects of our psychological health that have been influenced by it.
3.2. Humanistic Therapy In humanistic therapy, therapists emphasized the inner power of humanity and focused on individuals' capacity to make their own choices, and sought to foster personal growth through direct experience . therapists build a Client-centered relationship with the clients, giving them the sense of being understood, cared for, and listened without any judgment. In this way, clients were able to release emotion and actualize themselves in a good way. Though Music therapy has not been used with humanistic approaches directly, therapists could use music to create a good relationship, and also through the use of music, "to reflect both musically and verbally the client's improvisations." therapy helped
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3.3. Psychodynamic Therapy Psychodynamic theories include Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and other theorists who proposed theories force, motivation and drive, individual development, and the unconsciousness. Psychodynamic explanation therapists were not only aiming to modify clients' personalities but also seeking to let clients realize the influence of significant events that happened during their growth. Additionally, therapists wanted to help solve the conflicts in unconsciousness and help clients achieve an understanding of themselves. Music could arouse that focused on the unconscious
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4.1 ASD ASD is a type of neurological disorder. Patients will own a fixed behavior pattern, lack of interest, and social contact. Therapists could encourage patients to sing, do improvisation, and play instruments by using music therapy. These activities were recognized to effectively improve patients' attention by following the tempo, imitating the movements, and finally, synchronizing the tempo.
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"A positive effect of educational music therapy on patients with ASD was reported in most controlled studies (6/7), particularly in terms of speech production; a positive effect of improvisational music therapy was reported in most controlled studies (6/8), particularly in terms of social functioning." For the reason that music therapy has the function of influencing emotions. In another report on children with ASD, researchers adopted experiments about music therapy for children with ASD after searching and analyzing the various database. The result was that music therapy promoted the improvement of ASD children's initial skills like verbal communication, behavior modeling, and the abilities of social and emotional interactions .
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