Music Therapy

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Running Head: Music Can Be Used as Therapy? [Writing suggestion: Unless in a quote or a title, avoid rhetorical questions in academic writing. A good idea is to provide answers, not questions]

Music Can Be Used as Therapy?

Tanesha O’Neal

University of Phoenix

Composition and Communication II

Music Can Be Used as Therapy:

Abstract:

It has been proven music is a form of therapy that can affect your mood. Listening to music can increase your self-esteem, and your outlook on life. Everyone knows that listening to music while feeling [Style suggestion: if "feeling" is used in the sense of "to believe or think," it is a cliché and vague; use "believing" or "thinking"] down or depressed can provide relief. What may not be known to most people is that music can also reduce stress and heal depression. According to Elizabeth Scott (2011) music with a strong beat can...