For many years music remained the most popular activity in every individual’s

For many years, music remained the most popular activity in every individual’s life. With the ability to hear, no one will escape listening to music. As Vanden broeck said, “Music is a piece of art that goes in the ears straight to the heart” (1). Seeking entertainment or relaxing, everyone listens to music in order to release tensions, relief their mind, and get some enjoyment. Ignore once the fact that the popularity considers music as an instrumental art, this harmony is seen as an established therapeutic profession in the biological field; it addresses cognitive, emotional, and physical needs of individuals. This kind of therapy is living a rapid transformation and progress from an appendage modality to an efficient indispensable treatment manner in rehabilitation. Moreover, current music therapy methods are expanding to incorporate more valid and detailed methods to properly adjust to clients’ cases. Many claim that music therapy is an inefficient type of treatment that will die soon, as they consider it as an illusional placebo effect: why should we think that music therapy has any effect? In fact, music therapy is underestimated. Its future is promising and bright since it is witnessing a professional development.Despite the understate that many have towards music therapy, it seems today that this kind of treatment is noticing a huge progress providing a bright future. First, music can heal emotional suffering while other treatments cannot; this will open many wide doors in front of music therapy. In this case, experts are obliged to use this kind of treatment as it is a potent healing for emotional suffering diseases. Music therapy will work better for some patients instead of using psychotherapy, a traditional depression treatment. In fact, this self-expression process through music enables the individual to better connect with Khalil2their emotions and feelings immediately. Incorporated here, music enhances depressive symptoms to a better manner than psychotherapy. Music is treated in this case as an emerging treatment option for depression, melancholy, desolation, everything considered as a mood disorder. But is that necessary to treat mood disorder? Actually, this type of disorder may lead to the most begrudge situations: drugs. In the past few years, deaths have increased significantly due to drug overdoses; with more inclusivity and less medication, the sufferers can prevent drug addiction used to flee from emotional suffering. For instance, sufferers of depression and mood disorder improve social functioning under the effect of music therapy. Furthermore, individuals with communication disabilities are better able to express themselves when music is involved. According to Kenneth Bruscia, a professor of music therapy from Temple University in Philadelphia, “Developing creativity, expressive freedom, spontaneity and playfulness through music introduces nonverbal channels of communication and a bridge to verbal communication”. Such evidence of the good effect that this type of medication can have on one’s with typical speech struggle will motivate experts to proceed further in this domain.Another point is that music therapy has an extensive history that led us to outstanding successful results. As it is said, without history there would be no future. Many will argue against this idea because it seems too abstract; to a certain extent they are right. However, they lack a clear understanding of what music therapy is capable of: during world war II, musicians used to travel to facilities and hospitals to play some music for soldiers affected by both emotional and physical war-related issues. Jennifer Drake assumes that “these patients responded in significantly positive ways to this musical entertainment. As a result, doctors and nurses who saw these positive outcomes requested that hospitals begin hiring musicians to play on a regular basis for patients” (4). In the modern field, researches have shown that Khalil3individuals with any type of disease (physical, developmental, emotional…) can achieve obvious improvements from music therapy interventions. To be more specific, music can treat most brain injuries. Dr. Elizabeth Stegemoller, music therapist with a phD in neuroscience, outlines that music’s most important characteristic is the interaction with diverse brain regions. This means that music can be significantly effective in refreshing memory. Take for example the Alzheimer’s disease: a US study done by Kali Thomas found that music interventions are so effective to reduce psychological and behavioural symptoms. In the same manner, music can strengthen communication for sufferers of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disability): diseased individuals can benefit greatly from music incorporated here by gaining important skills such as hyper efficient communication and social interactions. In this way, professionals will tend to use this less medication, less risky, and more inclusivity treatment because of its history that affected a large area in the medical domain.Furthermore, the current debate about the future of music therapy identifies an interesting viewpoint on the promising future that music therapy can achieve: a general positive job market demand is forecasted for music therapists. Luckily, some of the fundamental forms of health care are shifting in many ways that qualify medical centres to better include music therapy. In other words, opportunities for new music therapists are expanding due to the increase in positions created by rehabilitation facilities, treatment centres and psychiatric hospitals. The “Bureau of Labor Statics” states that recreational therapy, which includes music therapy as well, is projected to grow 7 percent from 2018 to 2028, which is more than excellent. In the upcoming years, facilities will need new music therapists in order to treat age-related illnesses and injuries, which will increase the demand and therefore achieve a remarkable job outlook image. Khalil4 Music therapist gets paid about $50,000 per year which is great compared to other jobs. Referring to AMTA (American Music Therapy Association), “the overall average salary reported was $51,812, an increase of $1,015 over salaries reported from the survey conducted in 2016. The overall median salary reported in 2017 was $48,000 (an increase of $1,000 over 2016 reports” (12). Music therapists are enjoying quite a good salary which will refresh tendencies of new students to become music therapists and therefore secure a promising future