State Implementation of Authentic Music Therapy

 State Implementation of Authentic Music Therapy 

Problem

It is not known how to be consistently happy.

Abstract

The efficacy of evidence-based methods, or evidence-based therapy treatment EBT, was studied at inpatient behavioral treatment facilities in the United States to determine both short and long-term efficacy in generation z individuals (born 1997-2012) in the United States.

WHAT IS EBT

Evidence treatment therapy is trauma-survivor focused therapy and methods used such as with Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy that can be used to treat people with a wide range of health problems, including generalized or social anxiety disorders. Music therapy is an empirically evidenced intervention to help people improve their daily behavioral and mental health, and overall wellbeing. Interventions of music therapy address goals around the individual regulating his or her behavior, the way they cope with anxiety, how they express their emotions, effective methods to enhance mood, desirable social interactions and play. The American Music Therapy Association suggests listening to music, analyzing, lyrics, improv, and songwriting. Dancing and singing are also useful interventions in a group or solo.

Feeling Better Naturally

What kind of person questions happiness? Well, researchers for obvious reasons. Because we look for empirically proven methods to create a consistent and effective environment that is free from tension, while mindful of regulations, where consistency, and portability exist. So what body neurotransmitters, triggered from the brain, as the source, are antecedents of happiness? It’s all about dopamine and serotonin.

A neurotransmitter associated with happiness is dopamine and serotonin regulate mood—not too elevated or too low, but just right or in the middle. As we can observe with people, when there is a level of attraction, as with friendships and loving bonds, an activation of dopamine and serotonin increase and produce oxytocin, a pain reducing hormone that improves social connections with others. Also occurring in this happy zone is a disconnection of the amygdala, which is a part of the brain, located in the ear region, responsible for fight-or-flight. The amygdala, responsible for fear, releases a hormone called cortisol. Like the perfect recipe, getting just the right amount of these ‘ingredients’ categorizes one as a platinum seller or a blue-ribbon performer.

The World as Choice

However, beyond scientific belief systems, the way we acknowledge ourselves and appreciate the world around us, eventually speaks to choice. There are questions pivotal to comprehending the functions of human relations and the role of our brain. As with addressing questions in a research paper, it is this informed comprehension required to resolve interpersonal conflicts. And the bulk of trained counselors are required to have conquered family relationships studies, in addition to their field practicum hours. 

Despite great heterogeneity of theory in music therapy, a connected model of working components in music therapy is a useful place to start for empirical, or scholarly, studies designed to inform what is it specifically about music therapy that works. With this qualitative question, a heuristic mode or a “short cut” is offered. It consists of five factors of modulation working as music therapy (attention, emotion, cognitions, behavior, and communication.) It is the interplay of these elements that informs desired efficacy or outcomes (V. Dulger, 2025). The Victor Dulger Institute is known as the German Center for Music Therapy Research at the Dulger Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. 

State Funding 

What has been remiss in earlier leadership, is appreciation of mental health crises and how challenges, such as anxiety-ridden pandemics and presentations of outward aggressions or microaggressions, due unfortunately to occurrences of verbal micro aggression attacks or physical microaggressions/attacks. This outcome can also be synonymous with crime levels. High-quality health services and comprehensive population wellness is only achieved through implementation of pure EBT and its best practices. This requires, on the state level, funding to implement the intervention(s) in this context and hiring the right people.  It is allegedly informed that treatment centers did exist amongst states that, purportedly, implemented mixed methods of EBT (not true to the treatment method) that obviously would not yield long lasting changes but inform repeat incidents.  Net/net: the output as a population of people aligns with the authenticity of its well-meaning, authentic ingredients.