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What is Music Therapy?

Music Therapy is the use of various musical experiences to bring about desirable changes in the cognitive, physical, social or emotional functioning level of individuals requiring special services.

Music therapists work with individuals of varying ages and abilities, ranging from young children with developmental disabilities to the elderly. They work in a variety of health and educational agencies, including but not limited to medical hospitals, physical rehabilitation centers, mental health programs, nursing homes, hospice programs, developmental centers and schools.

For the seventh consecutive year, the Music Therapy Club
won the Music Therapy Spirit Award of the Southeastern
Region of the American Music Therapy Association
(SER-AMTA) in New Orleans. The award, which is
given for exemplary professional activities, community
service, and national student membership, was
presented at the 2008 SER-AMTA Awards Banquet.

Music Therapy Students to Attend Conference in New Orleans

Nine Queens students to present original research projects at three-day regional conference

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March, 2008) – The music therapy program at Queens University of Charlotte is doing big things, engaging its students – 20 strong – in professional activities on the regional and national level.Nine music therapy students will travel to the Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Music Therapy Association (SER-AMTA) March 27-29 to present their original research projects during the conference’s poster session.

“Each one of our students that submitted projects for consideration at the conference was accepted,” said Dr. Rebecca Engen, associate professor of music therapy at Queens. “This accomplishment is a testament to the quality of our students and the music therapy program at Queens. I’m extremely proud of our students’ success. Once again they will be the only pre-internship, undergraduate students presenting research at the conference – a crowning achievement.”

What is music therapy? The AMTA defines it as the prescribed use of music to effect positive changes in the psychological, physical, cognitive, or social functioning of individuals with health or educational problems. The treatment’s comprehensive background allowed Queens’ students to research several unique topics for their abstract in preparation for the conference. Students’ final submissions focused on the effects of music therapy on ADHD students taking an exam, video game users, dining time and the beverage consumption rate of restaurant patrons and professors grading papers. The best projects from all professional and student posters will be invited to present at the National AMTA Conference in St. Louis, November 21-23, 2008. Following last year’s SER-AMTA conference, Queens student Whitney Smith went on to present at the national AMTA conference in Louisville, Ky., last November.

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