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music therapy

the use of music as an adjunct to the treatment or rehabilitation of individuals to enhance their psychological, physical, cognitive, or social functioning. Music therapy involves singing, writing music, performing music, listening to music, and lyric analysis, among other techniques.

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disorganized development

disorganized development

disruption in the normal course of attachment in which a child does not learn how to deal with separation from or reunion with a parent and reacts inconsistently to the parent. See disorganized attachment).