Informative Speech Outline On Music Therapy

Topic: Music Therapy

General Purpose: To inform.

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the benefits of music therapy, so that they can

have a better quality of life and wellbeing. Moreover, it can also be a better alternative treatment

for several diseases and sickness.

Central Idea: Music treatment is the expert use of music and its components in therapeutic,

instructive, and ordinary situations with people or groups to upgrade their quality of life and

enhance their physical and wellbeing.

Introduction:

Do you ever know how powerful music is? Why do people continue to compose songs and why

do many songs made you feel happy but some instead made you cry? This is because music has a

powerful impact to human’s emotions

According to World Federation of Music Therapy, music

therapy is the professional use of music in medical, educational, and everyday environments with

individuals or groups in order to optimize their quality of life and improve their physical and

wellbeing (Haase, 2012). Music therapy provides a lot of benefits for people with and without

disease. For example, Brian Jantz, a music therapist, said that it helps patients relieve from their stress and overcome fear (Landau, 2013).

Preview: In today’s presentation about music therapy, we will look at the benefits of music

therapy on cancer patients, body, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Audience analysis: Some of you or your friends might use music therapy to cope with stress or

diseases, or as an alternative treatment in order to overcome sickness or negative emotions.

Therefore, I feel that this information might be relevant and valuable to you.

Body:

A.) Benefits on cancer patients

a.) reduced anxiety based on clinical anxiety scores (Blackwell, 2011).

b.) Enhance life quality, mood and diastolic blood pressure in adult patients (Magill &

O’Callaghan, 2011).

c.) Pain, distress, depression and anxiety are decreased. (Magill & O’Callaghan,