Psychiatric hospitals treat a wide range of different types of patients with mental disorders. AudioCuras music intervention has several uses for psychiatric patients and can be used very easily in several contexts and treatments in the psychiatric ward.
Music intervention is an incredibly pleasant and soothing treatment supplement or alternative to various types of psychiatric patients. Evidence supports music intervention’s positive effects on rumination, sleep, aggression, stress, fear and depression, etc. In addition, the music been found effective for reducing use of force and the can reduce self-harm in particular borderline patients. Music intervention has both a focusing effect, for example on psychiatric patients lacking focus in life or on concrete everyday tasks and also a distracting effect, especially on patients with rumination or excessive negative thoughts.
Music intervention is used for many purposes in psychiatry. On of is great potentials is the positive paralyzing effect that it can have on aggressive or violent psychiatric patients – music can in this case reduce the use of force on the patients.
In electroshock therapy, music intervention can be used to calm patients before they are anaesthetized and it’s calming effects can also be used in waiting rooms where directional music can be targeted individual patients or seats.
AudioCuras directional speakers can be mounted securely and out of reach of psychiatric patients in the ceiling, or used as mobile devices that are easily placed by the staff on beds or chairs.