Favorite Research Project

Honestly the only research project that I can remember doing was for a psychology class that I took while in technical college. I had to do a paper on a topic of my choice, obviously it had to do with psychology. I chose to do it on music therapy and its effects on certain medical disorders and illnesses. While it was not my favorite project, due to my lack of remembering other projects and the hassle of writing in APA format, I did enjoy it.

For this project I needed to research for journal articles that dealt with my topic. This was very much time consuming, but I still found them. My main reason for choosing and doing this topic was because of music. I believe that music is a very powerful tool to the human being. It can bring healing, open a hidden wound, encourage happiness, or cause anger; it can move any emotion into action. Music is not just sounds, or beats, or a set of instruments playing all at once, music is the heart. It is someone's heart, mind, body, and soul and allows for others to just dance, be free, and be happy!

So with that belief, I looked into what music did as a therapy for mental illnesses and such disorders as ADHD and autism. It was very interesting, but yet not too surprising to know the effects of music therapy. Music is universal to human beings; naturally, patients of such illnesses and disorders did react, positively! Not that these patients were healed, but it helped them in their everyday life struggles and made life easier. It helped them have different, more positive views. :) I certainly hope that music will be used more and more to help people dealing with these medical issues.