Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
music therapy Audio
[ myoo-zik ther-uh-pee ]
Subclass of:
Rehabilitation therapy; Sensory Art Therapies; Psychotherapy
Definitions related to music therapy:
  • The use of music as an adjunctive therapy in the treatment of neurological, mental, or behavioral disorders.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Treatment that uses music to help relieve pain or stress and promote well-being. It is being studied in the treatment of several cancer-related problems and other conditions.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Use of music as an adjunctive therapy in the treatment of neurological, mental, or behavioral disorders.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Using music to help achieve a specific change in behavior, feeling, or physiology
    Nursing Interventions Classification
    University of Iowa, 2007
  • Music therapy, clinical discipline in which music is used to address nonmusical goals. Therapists use music listening, songwriting, improvisation, and lyric analysis as means of fulfilling goals in movement, cognition, speech and language, and mental health. Music therapy is an allied health...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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