59-05-032 Proceeding

314 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MUSIC THERAPY KNOWLEDGE IN THAILAND Nuttika Soontorntanaphol, Prapansak Pum-in. Department of Western Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University Abstract: Music therapy is one of the science which is now being interested among scholars not only medical but also music education. From the evidences in history, there were many forms of music therapy, both intentionally and unintentionally for example, listening to music in order to make peaceful mind, for relaxation and for reducing anxiety or concentrating on how music has an influence to the movement of the body when the physical therapy occurs together with rhythmic activity. Many medical and music crews are interested in this therapy. Moreover, they earnestly focus on the study and the research in order to find the knowledge of music therapy and apply in a useful way. There are many officers in Department of Western Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University are interested in doing research of music therapy and found the way of using music therapy inThailand which is divided into 3 main kinds. First, medical and nursing music therapy. Second, the music therapy which is done by the group of volunteers or researchers. Lastly, the education of music therapy. Medical and nursingmusic therapy is very productive in reducing pain especiallymentally illness and there is a high chance of distributing the knowledge of music therapy to the public. Nowadays, doing the music therapy by the volunteers and researchers is being provided more andmore in hospitals ormedical institutions. In addition, there should bemore supporting in playingmoremusic and givingmore knowledge to the correspondents in order to gain knowledge and realize the importance of music therapy. As a result, there would be the beneficial in doing such activities. The music therapy education inThailand has 3 courses which are only in initial stage. First group is AttentionDeficit HyperactivityDisorder - ADHD. Second group is LearningDisorder - LD. And last group is Autism Spectrum Disorder - ASD. The education of music therapy in bachelor degree is in the initial stage and has zero graduate. This kind of therapy should have subjects in bachelor degree and the coursesmust be corporate by both Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Arts because it is very important tomake an integration of 2 kinds of knowledge together. Moreover, the studentsmust join the clinic training as well.There is an experiment onmusic therapy and studying the process of the research to create the learning, understanding and proficiency inmusic therapy. In present days, Department of Western Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University, we improve and develop the knowledge and make the most use of music therapy in many forms for example, Dr. Nuttika Soontorntanaphol, is doing the research on The effect on the recall in childrenwith learning disorder by using piano sound and rhythm, Assistant professor