Lifelong engagement with music : benefits for mental health and well-being / Nikki S. Rickard and Katrina McFerran, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rickard, Nikki S.

McFerran, Katrina, 1972-

Series:

Fine arts, music and literature.

Psychology research progress series.

Fine arts, music and literature

Psychology research progress

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, c2012.

Summary:

Music psychology is the study of how humans experience and perceive music, and the impact this has on individuals, groups and communities. Engaging with music - whether by performing, creating, learning or listening - can have significant benefits across the lifespan. This book explores how music can promote mental health and functioning in diverse settings, from supporting cognitive development in premature babies to establishing identity and emotional well-being in adolescents, to enhancing brain function in adults and challenging cognitive decline in dementia patients. A lifespan approach is used to illustrate that the benefits of musical engagement need not be reserved for the vulnerable, but can also serve people of all ages to enhance health and well-being.

Contents:

Intro

LIFELONG ENGAGEMENT WITH MUSIC: BENEFITS FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Music and the Brain

Music and the Individual

Music and Relationships

Music and Culture

Health and Illness

List of Reviewers

Author Biographies

Frameworks for Using Music as a Therapeutic Agent for Hospitalized Newborn Infants

Abstract

History of Music Therapy in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Auditory Development in the Fetus and Preterm Infant

Foundation Frameworks

Infant Focused

Model 1: Infant as Patient, Music as Treatment

Impact of Dosed Recorded Music

Amelioration Strategy for Painful Procedures

Optimal Stimulus for Specified Outcome

Model 2: The Infant as an Immature Dynamic System, Music as a Developmental Stimulus

Premature Infants - Sensory Recipient

Live Singing as Dosed Treatment - Multi-modal Stimulation (Decision Tree)

Model 3: Noxious Experience

Music as Protective Agent

EMT - Environmental Music Therapy - Live Music as Masking Device

Meta-analyses to Verify Effect

Family Centred Approaches

Model 1: The Infant as Centre of his World, Music as Shared Experience

Ecological Theory - Family is Always the Inner Circle

Shared Music Making as Healthy Counter-balance

Model 2: The Developing Infant, Music as Therapy

Model 3: The Mother-Infant Dyad, Music as Vehicle to Sustain

Focus on the Strengths

Conclusion

References

Musical Development in Infancy

Development of Sensory Systems

Prenatal Hearing

Benefits of Prenatal Hearing

Prenatal Learning

What Music and Sounds Does a Prenatal Infant Prefer?

Brain Development Before and After Birth.

Perception and Responses to Music from Birth to 3 Years

Birth - 3 Months

Perception of Music

Musical Responses

3-6 Months

Responses to Music

6-12 Months

12-18 Months

Response to Music

18 Months - 3 Years

Ongoing Musical Development

Non-Musical Benefits of School-Based Music Education and Training

Cognitive Benefits of Music Training

Cognitive Benefits of School-based Music Training

Psychosocial Benefits of School-based Music Training

Engaging in School-based Music Classes

Acknowledgments

Educating Amateurs: New Technologies and Models to Enhance Music Participation in Western Societies

Tuned Percussion Ensembles

Gamelan Instrumentation and Orchestration

Gamelan Musical Forms

Learning Gamelan

Tuned Percussion in Education and Community Arts in the West

Acoustic Engineering of New Tuned Percussion Instruments

Toward a Neurobiological Account of Music in Society

The Object-Attribute Model of Audition

A Neurobiological Model of Music Learning and Motivation

Conclusion: The Educated Amateur

Notes

Music and Adolescents

Definitions

What is Adolescence?

What is Adolescent Music?

Reflection or Performance: The Mirror and the Stage

The Mirror

The Stage

The Relationship between Identity and Pleasure

Musicking and the Performance of Gender: A Double Act

Gender … or Gendering?

Music … or Musicking?

Gendering Music and Musicking Gender

Gendering Music-Making

Gendering the Musical Object.

Gendering Musical Instruments

Gendering Musical Learning and Skills

Gendering Music-Listening

Gendering Musical Preferences

Gendering Reasons for Listening

Gendering Ways of Listening

Musicking Gender

Constructing Gender through Music-making - From Opera to Madonna

Constructing Gender through Music Listening

Music and Neural Plasticity

Neuroplasticity

Current Methods of Studying Neuroplasticity

The Neuroanatomy of Music

Brain Structure in Musicians and Nonmusicians

Onset of Music Training

Sexual Dimorphism and Music Training

Absolute Pitch Ability and Brain Structure

Type of Music Training and Neuroplastic Specificity

Structural Analyses across the Entire Brain

Brain Function in Musicians and Nonmusicians

Differences in Auditory Function

Subcortical Auditory Processing

The Auditory Mismatch Negativity (MMN)

Cortical Auditory Evoked Responses

Other Studies of Cortical Auditory Processing

Differences in Music Processing

Differences in Sensorimotor Function

Differences in Cross-modal Integration

Other Functional Differences

Effects of Music Training in Novices

Motor and Auditory Training

Music Training

Conclusions

Reconceptualizing 'Musicianship': Music Performance and Training through to Music Reception and Engagement

Musicianship as a Function of Training-induced Neurological Plasticity

Benefits of Music Training are Mediated by a Range of Cognitive Skills

Neurological Plasticity as a Result of Non-performance Music Engagement

Redefining "Musicianship"

Engagement

Music Engagement: Incorporating Non-performing Aspects of Music

Application of Music as a Lifelong Tool for Enhanced Health and Well-being

References.

The Mozart Effect: An Opportunity to Examine the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music Listening

Music: An Empirically Challenging Stimulus

The Mozart Effect

Generalizing the 'Mozart Effect'

The Music

The Perceiver

Nonhuman Animal Studies

Theoretical Frameworks

The Trion Model

Arousal-Mood Hypothesis

Emotional Arousal and Memory

Summary of Theoretical Models

Music Listening and Emotional Well-Being

The Enhancement of Emotional Well-being

Evaluating Changes in Emotional State

Subjective Measures of Affective State

Discrete and Dimensional Models

Momentary and Continuous Reporting

Limitations of Self-report Methods

Physiological Measures of Affective State

Effects of Music on Peripheral Measures of Positive Affect

Effects of Music on Central Measures of Positive Affect

Purposeful Uses of Music

Purposeful Use 1: Strong Positive Emotional Experiences with Music

Purposeful Use 2: Adolescent Use of Music to Regulate Negative Affect

Music Creativity and Mental Illness

Mental Illness in Creative Artists

Bi-polar Disorder in Schumann

Schizophrenia and Ivor Gurney

Music Therapy and Mental Illness

Music Therapy

Improvisational Music Therapy

Singing and Songwriting

Systematic Reviews of Music Therapy and Mental Illness

Overview of Research Studies

Qualitative Studies

Song-writing in Music Therapy

Contemporary Contexts and Approaches in Music Therapy for Mental Illness

A research Agenda for Music Therapy and Mental Illness

Music for Dementia and Parkinson's Disease in the Elderly

The Ageing Brain

Dementia

Causes of Dementia.

Symptoms of Dementia and the Goals of Therapy

Music and Health in Ageing

Goals of Music Therapy

Evidence in Health Care

Music Therapy and Dementia

Evidence for the Efficacy of Music Therapy in the Treatment of People who Have Dementia

Music, Dementia and Emotion

Music Therapy and Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Agitation

Activity Disturbance, Aggression, Anxiety

Apathy

Depression

Music Therapy and Memory

Music and Parkinson's Disease (PD)

Summary

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62100-645-X