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Health Services

OLDER PEOPLE AND ADULTS

Health Services

OLDER PEOPLE AND ADULTS

Music therapists work in a variety of settings including care homes, hospitals, in-patient and out-patient units, short break centres and hospices.

We offer a range of flexible music therapy services that can support adults with learning disabilities; mental health issues; acquired brain injury; life limiting illness, progressive neurological diseases such as dementia, and end of life care.

Music therapists work as part of the multi-disciplinary team around each patient, providing unique insights and approaches in both clinical assessment and treatment plans. Part of the power of music therapy is in the ability to work non-verbally throughout a programme of clinical intervention.

On occasion we may offer sessions which include other professionals, such joint sessions with speech & language therapists to promote communication.

For those experiencing memory loss or dementia, music therapists employ specific techniques which can reduce anxiety and agitation, enable communication and create the opportunity for dialogue and emotional expression.

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

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