Music Therapy &
Nordoff-Robbins Approach in Creative Music Therapy
Music Therapy is an evidence based use of musical interventions which are used to accomplish and/or support goals that an individual seeks to achieve. Goals can include the following: building attention, improving communication and creative self-expression to name a few.
Sessions are carried out by qualified and trained music therapists who assess and plan the use of musical interventions (e.g. singing, musical improvisation) to support the development of the client. No prior musical experience or training is required in a music therapy session.​
For more information:
https://www.musictherapy.org/about/musictherapy/
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Music therapy at Rejoice Creative Music is heavily influenced by the "Nordoff-Robbins Creative Music Therapy". This approach is founded Dr Clive Robbins ( special educator) and Dr Paul Nordoff (music composer) in the 1960s when they used music to reach out to children with learning disabilities. Through both composed and improvised music, they witnessed the potential in the children which was initially masked by the symptoms of various diagnoses.
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NRCMT functions on the premise that every individual has an innate musical sensitivity that enables him/her to respond to music, regardless of pathology. This approach is a person-centered one where the therapist focuses on the needs of the child in each session. Music becomes the agent of change as the child engages in various music interventions including music listening, instrumental playing, singing together with the music therapist.
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Find out more about this approach here.
A historical TV interview of NRMT work in NYU: