An Overview of Music Therapy with the Military Population

Thursday, November 10, 2022

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Presenter(s)

Abigail E. Palmer, MT-BC

Music Therapist
Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Slides
Danielle Vetro-Kalseth, MM, MT-BC

Music Therapist, HJF in support of Creative Forces: NEA Military
Healing Arts Network

Abbie Palmer, MT-BC & Danielle Vetro-Kalseth, MM, MT-BC provides evidence-based knowledge, clinical examples, and interactive experientials that focus on music therapy and the military population.

Learning Objectives:

Define music therapy and how it might be used to serve the military population
Relay information about the Creative Forces initiative and research
Identify the benefits of music based interventions from clinical experience and learn from live experientials
Describe how music therapy might be used to treat PTSD
Learn about the clinic to community continuum (C2CC) and how it's used for service member and veteran reintegration