Interest rising in music therapy

Dr. Barbara Memory (right), ECU Director of Music Therapy, with ECU Music Therapy students in session with client class. (Contributed photo)

A Raleigh News and Observer news story highlighted rising interest in music therapy as a way to calm patients and enhance medical care, citing music therapy work that helped U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords recover from a gunshot wound to the brain.

ECU offers undergraduate and graduate options in music therapy and hosts an ECU chapter of the American Music Therapy Association.

Dr. Barbara Memory is director of ECU’s music therapy program. Memory is a board certified registered music therapist and a member of the American Association of Music Therapy. She earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University, a master of music from Florida State University, and a bachelor of science and bachelor of music from Michigan State University.

For additional information about ECU’s music therapy program visit the program’s web site at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/music/musictherapy.cfm

Read the News and Observer article at http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/18/1786114/spotlight-falls-on-music-therapists.html.