Music Therapy in China

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Prof. Tian Gao
Regional Liaison for Western Pacific
Contact: westernpacific@wfmt.info[/caption]

Dear Colleagues,

The exploring of music therapy in China began in 1985. Some medical doctors of hospitals started their music therapy programs one after other, but there was no any one had been trained as a music therapist. They tried to develop some “music prescriptions” just like a medical prescription. The development of music therapy in China was not quite successful until some people were trained from western countries and back to China in 1996.

The first music therapy educational program was established Central Conservatory of Music, the best music college in China in 1996. Soon, there were three music colleges and two medical colleges established music therapy programs then. However, some of the schools lack of qualified music therapy teachers, the quality of the training programs are not satisfied.

We established our professional organization, Chinese Professional Music Therapist Association (CPMTA) in 2007, and trained systematically about 600 people who interested in music therapy, included musicians and music students, medical doctors and nurses, and psychotherapists. We established our music therapist register system in 2008, and have about 40 registered music therapists so far.

The steady growth of music therapy in China is on the way. The most people consider music therapy as a kind of psychotherapy and the Chinese psychology society recognizes music therapy as an important part of psychotherapy also, just because our earlier practice were more focus on psychotherapy. However, there are only a few hospitals accepting music therapy and the obtaining the reorganization of government is still a long way to go.

1. 1.An important event for music therapy in China was a severe earthquake of magnitude of 8 occurred, and resulting in 90,000 deaths and 370,000 wounded in May 12, 2008. Our music therapy team, with 60 music therapy students and teachers went to the regions of earthquake to offer helps. This was the first time to show the advantage of music therapy to the public, and it was extremely successful.
2. 2.Our therapeutic strategy included three phases: (1) performance, (2) group music activities, (3) and individual crisis intervention. The focus of phase one and phase two is stabilization. Instead of trying to talk with the survivors about the negative experience, feelings and memories related to trauma, our works were concentrated on prompting positive emotions and life energy through various music activities.
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The method I developed and use in individual crisis intervention is called Music Entrainment Desensitization and Reprocessing (MEDR). The basic premise is that music can significantly influence individuals’ experiences of a traumatic of memory. In the process of MEDR, I ask the victims of trauma, in this situation an earthquake survivor, to recall the worst picture of his/her experiences during the disaster repeatedly while music is used as a background. Each time I change the music from scary or sad, to peaceful, relaxing, and beautiful. Gradually, the survivor’s experience with the trauma memory will be changed following the changes of music. Eventually, survivors will create rich and positive images to reconstruct his/her inner picture of the trauma memory with helping of beautiful music.

Tian Gao

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