Music therapy assessment of the cerebrovascular accident patient

Author(s): Arnold, Jill C., Murray, Sheri E.

Journal/Book: Music Therapy Perspectives. 1990; 8: 23-29.

Abstract: Provides the music therapist with a comprehensive assessment, inclusive of cognitive, motor, communication, social, and visual domains, to be used with patients with disabilities, particularly those who have suffered a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). The assessment battery was devised in collaboration with an occupational therapist, a physical therapist, and a neurologist. This assessment and subsequent treatment of the CVA patient require the music therapist to become educated and continually research medical applications and procedures. ABSTRACT 2: Music therapists are now working in a variety of clinical settings including the medical hospital. In this setting, music therapy is starting to be included in physical rehabilitation and is affirming its validity as a successful treatment approach. As music therapy is increasingly challenged in this area of treatment, it has become essential for the music therapist to understand the various disabilities which they may encounter. One of these disabilities, cebrovascular Accident (CVA) requires a need for adequate, quantitative assessment and treatment. It is the intent of this article to provide the music therapist with a comprehensive assessment, inclusive of cognitive, motor, communication, social and visual domains to be utilized particularly with the CVA patient, as well as other disabilities.

Note: Using Smart Source Parsing music therapy test battery; assessment of cerebrovascular accident patients; music therapists

Keyword(s): Music therapy; neuropsychological assessment; cerebrovascular accidents; music-therapy, assessment, cerebral-vascular-accident, stroke, cognitive-ability, motor-skills, communication-skills, social-behaviors, visual.

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