23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

Combine music with pleasurable multi-stimulation
activities which include physical stroking, moving visual
stimuli, pleasurable olfactory stimuli, and other auditory
stimuli such as patient's name and family voices.
Watch for and identify overt responses. If no overt
responses occur, use physiologic measures to
determine any response to selected stimuli.
Discontinue non-contingent stimulation when response
begins to occur. Give selected stimulus, wait until
patient emits response, then reinforce immediately with
other multi-stimulation activities.
Pair eliciting stimulus with verbal command so that
patient will begin to respond to the human voice.
Begin moving the patient's body in an overt response
timed to coincide with any physiologic events that are
apparent.
Continue with these procedures and lengthen the chain
of events to which the patient will respond.
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For reducing deprivation:
Use patient's preferred music.
Combine music with age-appropriate multi-stimulation
activities, such as looking at slides or pictures to music,
reminiscing about memories related to smells (e.g.,
flowers, vanilla flavoring, lemons, etc.), or touching a
variety of surfaces (e.g., velvet, sandpaper, or fur). Use
variety of puppets and toys with children. If sterile
conditions prohibit use of real materials such as these,
use guided imagery techniques with music to imagine
multisensory events.
Reinforce pleasure responses and creative thinking
(imagination).
Technique 6. Music Biofeedback
Music Function:
To serve as reinforcer or structure for physiological