Study On The Application Of Music Therapy In Mental Health Education

Music therapy is a new type of cross nature of applied sciences,created in the middle of the 20th century in Europe and North America,which combines music,medicine, psychology and other disciplines.It is very popular and attracts a great number of people's attention, by dint of popular music for the media, stressing a emotion recognition model that"emotional decides cognitive". Urrently, as a disease, a kind of psychological treatment, its role and functions are being more and more recognized by the medical profession, psychology profession and the education sector,which has been applied to all aspects of people's lives.This article begains with the college mental health education, generally depicting its important role of a profound understanding of music therapy for students to adjust the negative emotions, cultivating emotional health of students and the spirit of collaboration to promote students self-expression, developing students's creative thinking and innovative ability and so on. This article analyses the way to put music therapy into mental health education of university student work on the basis of their own uniqueness and advantages at school education and the environment,to build a sound and reasonable music therapy system, further enrich and strengthen the college mental health education consultative work meaning and effectiveness.In this paper, it approaches from the basic theory of music therapy, introducting the origin of music therapy ,its development,its principles,as well as the commonly used methods. At the background of higher school, it advances the music therapy's role and the principles at the mental health of university students.Finally it focuses on how to use music therapy samplly at college mental health education, giving the specific ways and means, and describing the using questions that should be paid attention to.