Recently, the results of the first "Shanghai School Art Education Practical Charm Series Selection" were announced. After two rounds of strict reviews, Shanghai Conservatory of Music Dean Liao Changyong and Wang Hailing, deputy director of the Department of Shangyin Music Education, won the awards of Charming Principal and Charming Teachers. Mao Jueyi of the Department of Shangyin Music Drama won the nomination award for Charming Students, and Shangyin "Music Home Express" project won the nomination award for Charming Events.
New Shanghai Conservatory of Music on the side of , Huaihai Middle Road. Zhang Wenjing/photographed by
Music also has "home delivery"? What to give? How to give it? The reporter recently interviewed Professor Yang Yanyi, the leader of the discipline of music therapy of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and listened to her telling the story behind this charming project.
"Music Healing" has magic
"Music therapy does not take medicine or injections, but it can play a role in medicine and injections from the psychological level." Yang Yanyi told reporters that in 2008, Shanghai Conservatory of Music was the first undergraduate major in music therapy, which belongs to the Department of Music Education. It only recruits five or six students every year, which was still unknown at the time. Ten years later, this discipline expanded to the graduate level and became a "music therapy" with a wider population, richer service level, and higher social benefits. The role of music therapy in some special groups, such as cancer patients, autistic patients, and Alzheimer's elderly people, has also been recognized by more and more people.
After the sudden outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, some medical and music institutions have successively launched "music prescriptions" to relieve and soothe anxiety. For Shanghai Conservatory of Music, professional advantages have more places to use. "We have launched music collections of different themes, including songs created by students themselves, and works by Shangyin's own singers who are popular among everyone." Yang Yanyi introduced that during that period, under the leadership of the hospital leaders, Shangyin quickly organized a music rehabilitation team to customize "environmental music" plans for medical institutions, push music albums on WeChat official accounts, and also specially produced audios of relaxing meditation with the help of music. "After the language guidance of music rehabilitation therapists, we unknowingly eliminated distracting thoughts in the music and received emotional guidance."
These audios were sent to Ruijin Hospital , Xinhua Hospital, Sixth People's Hospital, Eye, Otolaryngology Hospital and other medical institutions to help medical staff, patients and families isolated in the hospital overcome the crisis. At the invitation of the "Shanghai Youth Online" Youth Public Service Center, the team also sent the audio to campus, dormitories and residential areas, bringing some relaxing moments to primary, middle and primary school students and parents. When the chief physician of Yueyang Hospital went to Wuhan for support, he also brought 6 episodes of such audio to play in the cabin. The patients took a relaxation exercise while resting, and the feedback was "specially targeted and very good."
"This is a bit like a magnetic field, which invisibly reduces stress to the patient's emotions, treatment, doctor-patient relationship, etc. You may not say that it can directly cure the disease, but it can help and comfort, and music can play a very good role in it." Yang Yanyi said.
awakens the inner vitality
As a kind of emotion expression, music is a common language for mankind throughout history. In the view of Zhouping , a teacher in music therapy at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and has experienced major crisis events such as SARS and the Wenchuan earthquake, no one can change the traumatic event itself. What can be changed is people's feelings about traumatic events. Music is like a container, with positive, negative, happy, and sad emotions contained in it, which are all beautiful. Music can give people strong support and awaken people's inner vitality.
Music therapy major students carry out clinical practice in hospital wards/data picture
During the special period of the epidemic, the music is used as a good medicine to start "anti-sound anti-epidemic". Among the four sections of music "Home-to-Home" there are music health gift packages regularly pushed to the public, which are customized environmental music solutions that help relieve the tension and depression in the working environment, free listening for customized audio for people with obvious physical and mental reactions such as anxiety, insomnia, etc., as well as online one-to-one "music healing" provided for medical staff and the public in need, serving the people involving medical staff, cancer patients, students facing the middle school entrance examination, overseas Chinese stranded overseas.
"At the beginning, I was in the mood to try it out, but the feedback was very different, which was also very encouraging to us." Yang Yanyi told reporters that there was a nurse who made an appointment for online healing services under a friend's recommendation. She was already very tired when she got off work that day and didn't want to video anymore. However, because the health therapy team would follow up and contact the situation after the appointment, she was embarrassed to break the appointment, so she insisted on going online again. As a result, she contacted her friends after going offline, saying that fortunately it was not cancelled, "The therapist is too professional and relaxes both physically and mentally."
According to incomplete statistics, as of now, the Shangyin Music Rehabilitation Team has received and served more than 500 people, with a total service time of more than 1,440 hours and a supervision time of more than 300 hours. It has cooperated with more than ten front-line anti-epidemic clinical units and carried out music rehabilitation projects. The team's work has been well received by visitors and has caused positive social response.
The love and care behind the notes
In the first half of this year, affected by the epidemic, among some patients who need continuous treatment, cancer patients face the dual "threat" of the new coronavirus and their own diseases. Panic and anxiety can be imagined. To help them release stress and build confidence, the Kangxuan team launched the "one-on-one" online music healing service with the theme of "My Favorite Song". The client chooses a song he likes when making an appointment and listens with a musical therapist during the treatment process. During this process, the client helps the client discover their own positive resources and carry out psychological construction.
The most difficult time, the Kangyu team provides individual and group music psychological assistance from 9 am to 9 pm every day, bringing care, companionship and inner peace to those who are in trouble on the other end of the network. Up to now, 9 volunteers from the Shangyin Kangyu team have provided services to nearly 100 online healing people and held nearly ten special lectures on music healing. The first visitor to the online healing service of
was a patient with breast cancer who had just completed the operation and entered the video link at that time. After experiencing the first treatment, I was very satisfied and made an appointment immediately. "We are also very happy to help her relieve her and help her discover that 'It turns out that there are positive factors in my heart and strength'. We want her to grow this part," said Yang Yanyi.
More students who were once closed on campus reported after participating in the online lecture: Three treatment courses, three different experiences, seem to open the door to a new world, and for the first time, they truly realized the ability to heal music; during the days in the dormitory, their mood became more peaceful, they were no longer anxious, and they sorted out their clues and clarified their thoughts; through music, they felt connected with more people; they recalled many sweetness and beauty of the past, and hoped that the epidemic would end soon and everyone could return to normal life.
It is understood that the music and rehabilitation major of Shanghai Conservatory of Music has currently carried out in-depth cooperation with , Fudan University Eye, Otolaryngology Hospital, , Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Jiaotong University School of Medicine, , the Tenth People's Hospital affiliated to Tongji University, , Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, , Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and many community service centers, and schools. In the future, music and rehabilitation services are expected to benefit more people in need.
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Reporter: Zhang Wenjing
Editor: Ning Pingying
Proofreading: Pan Lijuan
