Effects and Applications of Music Therapy on Psychological Health: A Review
These authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.186How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- music therapy; psychological health; emotion; stress; humanistic therapy
- Abstract
Throughout its long history, music has played an indispensable role in our life. 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, we reviewed the history of music therapy and have focused on several aspects of our psychological health that have been influenced by it. Several treatment therapies related to music therapy have been discussed. In conclusion, music therapy has brought a tremendous impact on people’s psychological health, enabled patients to suffer less pain, anxiety, and feeling stressful and thus improves our emotional states, bringing psychological health to the patients.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Junrui Huang AU - Xiaoqing Li PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/28 TI - Effects and Applications of Music Therapy on Psychological Health: A Review BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 984 EP - 989 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.186 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.186 ID - Huang2022 ER -