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Types of music therapy

One is active mode of music therapy.
The other one is passive mode of music therapy.

Music Therapy is helpful in  both forms  - sickness and wellness - of medical industry. In this both forms, music therapy helps to restore good health and helps  to maintain the same. Active mode requires participation of the patients in the music therapy sessions, while the passive mode of music therapy requires mere involved listening. In the medical field, passive form of music therapy plays a dominant role in the betterment of the patients.

The active mode of music therapy is useful in Pediatric areas and in few of the Neurological problems.

In the Pediatric areas, the active mode of music therapy helps  for the hyper active child to reduce the over activity in a given period of time and enhance the quality of concentration in child. With regard to speech difficulties in children this active mode of music enhances the quality of fluency in speech.

Music training also enhances the Verbal Memory improvement in children.

Many of the  behavior problems in children and developmental delays  and other problematic behaviors also  may be attended through active mode of music therapy.

Music Therapy in expressive behavior, imagination development in children, and projecting the ideas while participating etc., are all feasible in this active mode.

In the neurological areas the neurological aphasia; both the receptive  and expressive aphasia may get the necessary stimulation, required to bring back the  needed communication in patients. The lyrics in active music surely triggers the memory folders in the brains of  patients and  helps to revive the same. 

The  passive mode/form of music therapy  may surely be  implemented in almost in all areas  of medical field  as an alternative or as an adjunct or as  a complement to medicine.
   

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