Social Service Learning Institute (SSLI) will host a webinar on Music-Enhanced Therapy this coming September 17, 2021. SSLI Director, Ronnel Golimlim, RSW together with Music Psychology Center, and Sobriety Foundation, Inc. spearheads the psychological benefits of Music-Enhanced Therapy.
The webinar will target SSLI Social Workers, Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals who are center-based and community-based with alternative learning opportunities in helping their clients. SSLI aims to be a Continuing Education and Training (CET) centre for the social services sector by way of developing skilled professionals and build the capability of the sector. This is achieved through SSLI’s leadership and partnership with stakeholders, agility in providing relevant and quality training and spirit of innovation and developing relevant topics to learn.
The components of the webinar will include Music-Enhanced Therapy as an intervention, focusing on neurocircuitry, neuroplasticity and neurosynthesis. The applications would involve practical ways in implementing music with existing psychotherapy constructs of centers that cater to anxiety, depression and addiction.
Music-Enhanced Therapy has 3 major elements: music meditation, music motion and music worship that targets the mind, body and spirit. All of which are essential in dealing with mental health conditions.
SFI Program Director – George Gonzales, Clinical Department Manager – Dennis Dyoco, Operations Department Manager – Christopher Bautista, Administrative Department Manager – Francis Gonzales supports the Music-Enhanced Therapy approach and is regularly conducted at the facility. MPC Music Psychologist – Prof. Jose Maria G. Pelayo III, MusPsy – believes that significant results may be derived from a longitudinal study of the said intervention for their clients.
