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Philosophy of the Music Therapy Program
The music therapy department of Orchard Manor is dedicated to a holistic approach in meeting the psychosocial, emotional, cognitive, physiological, sensorimotor, and spiritual needs of our clients in the context of a therapeutic relationship, using music to facilitate each individual's well-being.
In the Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded, music therapy is utilized in the context of a behavioral model to affect normalization and creative expression. The Skilled Nursing Facility operates within a medical model and music therapy is used to facilitate healing by
addressing cognitive, psychosocial, communication, and physiological functions while promoting interpersonal, emotional, and spiritual expression.
Clinical techniques utilized include: song writing, song lyric analysis, instrument manipulation, group singing, music and movement, music reminiscence, iso-moodic
principle, music-facilitated relaxation, improvisation, song lyric completion, and life reviews through music.
Orchard Manor's motto is "Adding Years to Life and Life to Years" and the music therapy department adheres to this motto by promoting independence for each individual within a musical environment so that this independence may transfer to daily living for each person. The purpose of music therapy lies not in the music application, but in the specific therapeutic need for each individual. Music must be used in a purposeful manner in order to meet a need or bring about a desired outcome for each individual.
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