Why I Want to Change the World with Music Therapy | Erin Seibert | TEDxUSFSP
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- Erin Seibert describes the profession of music therapy in detail and how it deserves to be a household name within the world of healthcare. Erin highlights the reasons why music therapy is already changing the world one patient at a time and how increased inclusion of the profession will help healthcare progress
Erin Copeland Seibert, MT-BC (Board-Certified Music Therapist) graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Therapy, with a concentration in vocal performance. Currently, she is pursuing her Master of Arts in Music Therapy through Berklee College of Music. She is also a member of the National Institute for Infant and Child Medical Music Therapy, NICU-MT. Erin was trained in medical music therapy and has worked with a variety of individuals in many settings, including the NICU, rehabilitation, psychiatric care, intellectual and developmental disabilities, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and hospice care. Her deepest music therapy passions lie in education and advocacy of the profession. Erin is focusing her master’s degree in Complementary and Integrative Medicine with the intention of changing how music therapy is included in healthcare. You can follow her blog musictherapytime.com to learn more.
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Im currently going through music therapy. Im been in the military for many years and was recently diagnosed with TBI. I have severe headaches most days, and short term memory loss. Along with reduced motor functions. I was very skeptical about music therapy but I thought if nothing else I'll learn how to play instrument and check that off my bucket list. My first session I ended up picking a piano and progressed a lot more than I thought I would in one hour. The aha moment came later that day when I was going in for another treatment and was asked how I felt. I didn't realize that I left music therapy with no headache having no anxiety and feeling completely happy. This is not a normal thing for me so I'm a Believer and I'm going to keep on playing music
It's identical to chess. Basic idea: easy. Mastery? Yeah, that's another animal altogether :)
This is utterly inspiring. I am going to an interview next week for an MA in music Therapy and I hope I leave a good impression
I'm so happy for you 💛
It's funny! I'll have a headache going into a band rehearsal, but then I feel better after leaving the rehearsal! It's so interesting thinking about the power music has, especially on our brains! That's part of the reason I want to become a music therapist. To be able to help people with various needs through music!
I am just going into high school and am really into music. I play multiple instruments and gig around my area. This year I was asked what I wanted to do with my life and I told everyone music therapy. I want to help people with what I love to do. This gave me so much inspiration. Thank you.
Awesome to hear Page! Good luck with your journey into music therapy!
Page Athey please stop. Don't set your goals on the Internet, because I promise you no one honestly cares
Page Athey but honestly I agree, music therapy does look interesting
I do believe music a therapy its a good thing you will connect more with your community and also play music more it only needs one to set goals and work hard d@ if you really really want this
omg! this caption represents me so much! I was about to write this, music is everything ❤️
I just read the book Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. It opened my eyes to the power of music in healing. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you so much, i`m reading it now :)
Erin, I have started music therapy for my 96 year old mother that has both dementia and aphasia. This is one therapy that has worked wonders for her. I hope that Medicare will eventually accept and pay for this therapy so that more people can afford to incorporate it into the health care of an elderly person they care for.
+Judy Leach wow .. Amazing!
Thank you for your comment Judy! I hope MT has continued to reach your mother. I too hope insurances will soon recognize MT more widely as a credible therapy for reimbursement!
Problem is that nobody wants to waste MANY HOURS on the useless insurance paperwork. Example: drug counselor? Well, who cares how many brothers and sisters they have? It has nothing to do with getting and staying sober. But between the state funding and/or insurance, that's what we get trained IN. Paperwork. Useless paperwork.
Really glad to see someone advocating music therapy so passionately. Please keep doing what you are doing and one day soon the world will understand that music is the answer. Thank you!
Unfortunately, in Romania music therapy is even more unknown; this is why i'm doing my best to become a quality music therapist, which means I have to continue my studies abroad and then come back here. My main motivation is that i really want to help, to find personal fulfillment especially by helping my autistic cousin:)
me too! i am from slovenia
I'm studying Recreation Therapy and I believe our professions share similar problems in that the public does not know who we are, what we do, or see our significance. As noted by Erin, people are turning toward holistic approaches, I hope that Music Therapy and Recreation Therapy can become more well-known. Recreation Therapists use evidence-based practice, psychology theories and a holistic way of thinking in our approach. We look at the individual as a whole and assess what can be done to encourage the best functioning of the person. I hope we can move forward together toward creating a meaningful life.
I am a music teacher. Honestly, not trained to be a school music teacher, because my music degree was meant for a different purpose. However, I enjoy the challenge of a new goal, so I took up this challenge. I am beginning to enjoy it.
I was overwhelmed by the response of a child with special needs to beat boxing. We had been trying hard to get him involved with our activities and singing, etc. but to no avail. It was unintentionally that I started to beat box one day while standing next to him, and to my pleasant surprise he started to imitate me. Most of the times he is still lost in his own world. But every time I start to beat box, he joins in. Pretty amazing for me who doesn't see this stuff often.
Thanks Erin for this. Is there any way I can have access to more resources that'll be helpful for school kids?
Thankyou Erin for being one of the growing number of Music Therapists. It's great to hear Paul Worley and so many others in this post that have also benefited, same as I have been having Music Therapy for several years now.
My TBI was from being severely rear-ended in a car accident, morethan 10 years ago. Several treating specialists said, that by learning a language, it would help reconnect the damaged neural pathways in my brain. PTSD, Anxiety, Memory challenges and the Headaches all added to my life changes. My head was in fog for many years. After my accident I saw some photos of me with an Alto Sax. It took some time for my brain to realise that was me in the photo, and that I had played in a community band, seeing some of my music folders. That's when I realised that Music is a Language. I bought another Alto Saxophone, and I could only do so much. It was slow going as I had to literally go back to the basics. The concentration increased the Headaches. My Speech Therapist heard of Music Therapy, and gave me the contact details. I was on the waiting list for about a year, and was delighted to finally start having therapy. The first one played guitar and she actually jammed some music to one of my published poems. That was a wonderful boost to lift me further from my depression. She heard me play my sax, and was very encouraging. I've had several more therapists each helping me more and more. When I am playing, my Headaches are no longer as debilitating. I find myself in a 'zone', and it is so uplifting. My current therapist constantly asks me what I would like to do, rather than telling me what to do. She has recorded me playing a few bars of "In The Mood" for my ring tone. Hearing that Sax riff, helps reinforce that it is me playing. I said that I had to write the note names above the notes, so that when I couldn't remember the note by the position on the bar line, I could refer to the name and play the note. The therapist downloaded a program that allows notes to be written on the barlines. She has transposed all the scales I had long since written in pencil, using that program writing the notes into barlines, with the notes and names also. She sends it to me and I print it up for practising. Once I learn the notes of each piece of music, it then takes many as 6 months to GET the rhythm. The speed is not there yet. I'm still having fortnightly sessions with my therapist, and she has noticed I am slowly improving. Before covid at the appointments she would record my playing, so that future sessions we could both see the improvements. I highly recommend everyone to music Therapy. Some people don't play an instrument, and just prefer to listen. That is the nature of music Therapy.
I want to study music therapy and what this woman is saying it’s 💯 right !!!! She is seriously inspiring
Tonight, I took my second class of Introduction of Music Therapy and this video basically resumed my class in its entirety.
I just finished watching this video. I have recently started looking into the possibility of a Music Therapy profession. Like Erin, I don't expect to change the world. But I fully endorse the application of music to our health, for it's complex and deeply rooted powers. I really liked it when she said that music is a part of human nature. I've thought this myself when thinking how no habitable world in the universe could ever not have music. It's such an innate thing that manifests itself into this wonderful tool of expression that can be used in a way I didn't ever think of before.
Very well said. I'm considering MT as a career path when I graduate in 2 years and already I have been asked at least 20 times what a music therapist is and feel the same struggle as to whether I should give the long or short explanation. Next time I will know exactly what to say to them. I'll be spreading the word around about music therapy the next time somebody asks me c:
That is great to hear! I'm glad you feel you have more direction in how to answer that question :) Best of luck in your career journey!
i`ve been focussing on music & neuroscience for a few decades now, it's truly miraculous how she (music) can heal us. It's becoming my mission to heal the world with her, so i am in the process to create a plan to create the biggest impact i can which will probably go with building a community of music therapist an healer to synergize hour effort.
Thanks Erin, your talk is amazing.
Hi Erin, I watched your lecture on music therapy as guidance for my Mental health nursing dissertation essay. I'm very passionate about music and try to promote the use of music to service users within my profession as a way of expression and release. This video has been so motivational. Thank you for sharing it.
MTs should to be recognized and implemented in treatment/recovery/rehabilitation of various diseases just as much as PTs, OTs and SLPs are and in combination with those therapies.
This is truly inspiring Erin! I am a musician from India and I really want to pursue MT as my career now! Let's change the world together!
Wow! I am blown away! One of the best TED talks I've seen.
So great! I am in the process of getting my license to practice occupational therapy, but want to continue school to become a music therapist as well! I am a passionate musician that wants to learn more and more about music therapy! Thank you!!
This was incredibly eye open and so inspired. Excellent job Erin!
i love this so much, i loved the example of the guy with a stroke. music can make such magical things happen, it’s so sad that people can’t realise how much power it has for how closeminded they are. i truly hope and believe that we can change the world and ppl’s mind with musictherapy. thank u for ur words🖤
I loved your speech! I totally agree with everything you had to say about music therapy! I am a music therapy major and I can’t wait to change the world!
I love music therapy, music definitely makes you feel better.
Definitely for me.
I once listened to a Mozart's concerto piece and cried like a baby¬ I still wonder why¬
Wow. Amazing. So proud of you, Erin!
Awesome talk!!! So inspiring and a GREAT piece of advocacy. Thank you for sharing your passion for our amazing field!!
Music therapy is the way to go. That’s what I am! Love this video!
Hello Erin, very interesting and helpful presentation thanks. My daughter has a serious medical condition and at the home in the UK where she must stay sometimes they provide MT. If I was to try to stop this now I would be given a hard time by our girl; she loves it so much. MT helps her her on so many levels not least by directly keeping her vocal chords and speech exercised, memory working, motor skills on the instruments, and a lot of fun. What a very worthwhile profession, well done, thanks again.
thank you so much for the insperation!
This was a beautiful presentation , thank you so much for sharing !
I feel very inspired by this profession & I am just in awe with your speech !
Thank you!
Destiny Weber
I understood and believe that music is the way of great solutions! best wishes from Brazil
👏👏👏 from Nigeria...this is a goal.
Awesome talk. Thanks!
I couldn't agree more. Excellent speech.
Thank you!
You are AMAZING Erin :) Glad to see more people that "gets it" :)
Very enlightening and food for much thought as I think about my next step in how I can help others
Music therapy does work. 🙏🙏🙏💕
Wow! This is awesome
Very impressive video, well done Erin
heal yourself with music
Bravo..! Music Medicine
I too can relate my aim to this
I too want to make a new revolutionary change in medical sector by involving myself as music therapist..I think that music is the best medicine ever invented❤️
Amen Sister!
OMG ! You are so right ! One thing you didn't say (and im a muscian not board certified) is how music can heplp the transition to heaven when one is passing the last thing that go's is the hearing so they can hear till the end when passing I hope someone will comfort me that way
A music therapist isn't the same as a musician. There's a LOT of schooling in psychology as well as music. Looks like a double major in places (some major cities) that don't offer a major in music therapy.
You'd have to be certified from them. I have yet to see a Jimi Page skill-level guitar player music therapist, for whatever that's worth, though...
Thank you for your definite explanation about music therapy, which helps me understand what it is and makes me to be anxious to learn music therapy in graduate school next year in Korea!!
Please, can you tell me Which university offers such a program in Korea? I'm also looking towards it.
vishmi kaveesha It's already been 20 years in Korea for music therapy as one of the graduate school department! We have lots of graduate schools from in Seoul to other cities like Busan, in which I live and start to learn music therapy next month! I'm so excited to learn music therapy!
vishmi kaveesha My school is Koshin University in Busan, Korea. ^^
wow! awesome..I'm in so love with Korean culture so I'm planning to go to Korea for higher studies. 감사합니다 이지영! I hopei spelled your name correctly... :D
vishmi kaveesha Your Korean is perfect!!! That's my name in Korean^^
Wonderful! I hope that many people will watch this and learn :)
Thank you!
Awesome.
I'm thinking of committing to doing music therapy. Currently thinking of going to UIW San Antonio since that's the closet place that offers it.
Many people are a party without music and that is ok to fix. But when being music without party, that is tougher.
Hey Erin, you better watch out. Your talk is probably going to make me choose to be a music therapy
They were actually using music as a healing technique in the Ottoman Empire before WWs. It was a serious technique that was being studied and used every day. Classical Ottoman Music had Maqams (specific rhythms, melodies, and themes) for healing specific illnesses.
Thank you very much for your speche about Musictherapy. You have very convincing manner to speak. I am musictherapyst in Switzerland so my english is not so good. Do you have the script of your talk? Reading you would help me to even better understand you.
Thank you
awh saint pete is my hometown
Great presentation ! I am researching MT as a possible career change.
Thank you! Music therapy is a wonderful career and I hope you find it to be the right path for you!
Thanks Erin, I am a practicing hypnotherapist and past life therapist. Where can I learn MT. Preferably online......M from India.
i am on this path just started out i have hidden myself away for a while about my passion about music. I have to start as recreational therapist which is good aswell
Umesh Arya Hi. you can learn MT in Pondicherry. I am currently doing a diploma in MT . let me know if your still interested I can help you out
BY the grace of GOD I have a power to heal people suffering from any disease with the help of music
VERY important that music THERAPY be distinguished as being intended to CHANGE people, while THERAPEUTIC music is intended to meet the person where they are in the moment and connect and validate them where they are. Please see MHTP.
if there's some music performs in this talk it would be perfect
This is not about music performance
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I think it's sad that you can't get a music therapy major in some major cities. You have to play games to get a degree, grabbing up therapy/psychology/music classes wherever you can grab them.
I love this, but disagree with the idea that enacting healing by using music as a vehicle is a "non-musical" goal. After all, even the performer will often say they create their music in hopes of enacting change. Music therapy just does so on a more personal/one on one level.
hi! I'm in school currently to become a music therapist. Music is powerful in many ways, mostly because it is fun to listen to and participate in. The term "using music for non-musical goals" often means using music to engage patients in areas they struggle in. For a child with autism who has trouble with response or social participation, this can mean using music to get the child to participate by singing along with their therapist or doing instruction based musical activities. For patients with dementia, this can mean playing music that triggers memory recall. For people that are nonverbal or mostly nonverbal, this can mean using music or songs to encourage them to speak or sing along. Music therapy works because music is both the therapy and the reinforcer. It's different from physical therapy or speech therapy where you complete the goal and then get the reward or reinforcer which is separate from the goal. In music therapy, the music itself is the reinforcer, so it's more pleasant to participate in and generates better results!
Same motive but need a lot guidance
Wonderful talk but what is the realistic job outlook for this field? I see very few jobs and unfortunately they don't pay very well either, am I accurate?
EternalDestiny48 there are more jobs than MTs :)
@@stephanieappleton58 Proof?
TVSpicyMilk I am a music therapist and currently have 3 different jobs, and there are at least 2 open jobs where I am. If you’re willing to move, you can find a job.
First thing that needs to happen is develop a new standard for people to become therapists because it seems like finding a good therapist is about as likely as the divorce rate in the US. About 50 percent
i think i want to become a music therapist, but i'm nervous that as someone on medication for anxiety and depression i'm not as qualified to help others with their own mental health ;;
Don’t worry there is cure and healing by helping others!
can someone please tell me how i guessed that she would sing i want it that way ?? .>.
Can I contact by email wt u? I'm now a doctor and really want to learn more in music therapy, but the source is rare, just want to get some advice from u!. By the way, your presentationi make me get in passion more. Thanks for that!
HI Erin, Gret Talk ! I am researching the profession. Do you have any resources you could share? Thanks
Geoffrey
Yes: For sure check out Nordoff-Robbins (Paul Nordoff and Clive and Carol Robbins)--many videos on you tube. Also books by Florence Tyson or Kenneth Bruscia.
Also, get the Journal of Music Therapy, or Music Therapy Perspectives from the National Association for Music Therapy, now known as AMTA..American Music Therapy Association
Kids won't hear if they/can't relate to being shot or shot at, if that's real to them. And the musical treatment plan is so much different for girls and women. Our need for female musicians not just female singers. So to follow your dreams first, gain experience and material for your future treatment plans is selling yourself short in my opinion. And later your clients needs will inspire you through possibly your true nature as a healer. Or the earth's population could all be healthy mentally, physically and spiritually and not need any help from anyone or anything.
I'd personally be REALLY offended at this. Every band, 98.99% of the time is led by a male-dominated band. Most bassists and the greatest drummers are almost entirely men.
If you were trying to wake me from a coma, i highly doubt Taylor Swift would do it. I'd be mad because i don't know her drummer's name and that means i wasn't set on looking it up.
As a female, I'd find that very sexist.
please, help me with good university, for i have been wanting to study this for my masters degree.
Imanuel Malya Georgia College & State University as well as University of Georgia have great programs!! I myself am going to Georgia College next semester for MT
There are major cities with no music therapy program within 150 or 200 miles...
Same states have none, there are 3 now in Florida
Help me, I want to do music therapy. Help with advice
Play Music for people
You have to go to college for music therapy and then get a music therapy license
I've yet to see a Jimi Hexdrix skill level MT, for what that's worth. Many places don't have a major for that. You'd have to get an Associate's, I'd get Advising on how to proceed, they may tell you do like a double major in music and therapy/psychology as undergrad if you don't have MT option there.
Then, you'll need to be NEAR a good music college, even as liason for a better school you can't physically go to, i think. I haven't seen any online music clases, not even music theory. You have to go DOWN there. Of my whole 20 hours that's the only one i have to actually see anyone in person. Lol. You can do all your other stuff online at least half the time if you're near a major college town.
College in US is INSANELY expensive. SO any financing you need, do it yesterday (meaning RIGHT AWAY).
If you have zero college, get Associate's from.a city college. That's as cheap as it gets. Expect another...hundreds of dollars for books (rent them online for much cheaper) and download "key codes" are about 125.00 EACH (per class).
Look into places that will take care of that. The US has some very good schools, but unless they're giving you a scholarship or you get lucky that they'll reimburse you when you get a job, it's going to be A LOT of $$$.
Some countries will pay your schooling. If you can travel, I'd look into that.
Associate's is the start. You'll need at least a Bachelor's from what i saw.
@@roxanardh how long would this take?
traduction arabic please
There is probably an app for that. Perhaps ask a friend to help.
I have a premature daughter that was born of 25 weeks with 555g. Can you help me?
In your case the best thing to do is to touch your daughter as many times as possibles. Everytime you touch your bacteries are going from your body to hers and she needs the bacteria to develope. If you do not touch her as much than she will not get the right bacteria she needs and her immunse system will not be that strong. Breastfeed her its the best thing she can get for food right now. The best music to her ears is the music of your heart beat and your voice, singing. You can sing whatever song you feel like singing to her, as long as its calming. I do not know where you are right now, but I suggest you do stress relief tehnics to calm yourself down first and than when you are calmed you go to your daughter and be with her. If you do not do that you will put your stress on her and she realy needs love and a feeling of safeness and that you trust the universe that everything will be alright and that she will grow to be a fine Woman. Love and Light, White Fairy.:)
I'm aspiring to be a music therapist, having been in the music business almost two thirds of my life. I will do so to help others, not for the do-goodery title associated with it. Seems her focus of this talk is whining about not being recognized beyond a pseudoscience. Although there's a lot to be answered about why it works, my only concern is to utilize the fact that I can work in a lot of cases. It has for me.
The more it's recognized, the more it's recommended to people, therefore, more are helped.
Why is this spoken and not played? Just another marketing campaign
I'd do better in music therapy and art therapy.
good information.boring speech
She talks on the beat! It feels artificial. I can’t feel her emotions in this speech! Am I the only one who can’t connect because I don’t feel any emotions?
Now that you say it ... I can’t “unhear” this!
Artificial?? Compared to what exactly?
Public speaking isn't an easy feat. But I'd love to watch your TED talk. Is there a link to view it?
Nah it's a good speech. You are over thinking or maybe trying to overfeel??? 😜
We are health care professionals dammit ...recognize. Lol. Then write me script for some benzos and let me play my guitar.
These paid for Ted Talks are getting old.
You should of given examples instead of just talking. Actually show a therapy session or a simulated one. You lost my interest by just talking and one abrupt example.
ptsd = sending innocent young 2 kill each other 4 rich wealthy COWARDS....and feelig sorry afterwards