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MUSIC THERAPY: TREATMENT FOR GRADE 11 STEM STUDENTS WHO

SUFFER STRESS FROM BASIC CALCULUS

Haroldjay S. Castillo

Catherine L. Delgado

Mayrilyn Diapera

Paul Andrei M. Garcia

Mark Deyven Vilegaño

St. Augustine School

March 22 2020
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Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

Most people go about our everyday listening to music to keep up calm, grounded;

maybe more focused or clear-headed while we work. At Balance, we believe that music

therapist available for individual and group sessions. At balance Stress management and

Therapy, our Board-Certified Music Therapist is qualified to complete an assessment of your

emotional well –being, your general physical state, your social functioning, communication

skills, and cognition using musical activities, sound, instrument and improvisation. Then

based on your needs, music therapy sessions are designed to target your specific goals for

wellness and functioning. Music therapy session can involve a mic of live and recorded

music, various musical instruments, singing and vocalizing and sometimes even silence. In

fact, you don’t even have to like music or know anything about music to have it be an

effective medium for therapy. Our bodies are musical and through music we can connect our

bodies to our minds. Therefore, music is a great tool for awareness on multiple dimensions.

Perhaps this is why music therapy sessions are so successful. Music is easy to enjoy and for

the most part easy to use (Balancestress, 2017).

Music therapy is the professional use of music and its elements as an intervention in

medical, education and everyday environments with individuals, group, families, or

communities who seek to optimize their qualities of life and improve their physical, social,

communicative, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Research,

practice, education, and clinical training in music therapy are base professional standards

according to cultural, social, and political contexts (WFMT, 2011).

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Music therapy (MT) is an established health profession using music and music

activities or interventions to address physical, emotional, cognitive, social, psychological,

and physiological needs of infants, children, adolescents, and adults including the elderly,

with disabilities or illnesses. MT may also be used with healthy children and adults to

maintain wellness throughout life. MT builds on the power of music, using music in a

focused and concentrated way for healing and for change. It is a non-invasive medical

treatment designed to prevent illness and disease, alleviate pain and stress, help people

express feelings, promote physical rehabilitation, positively affect moods and emotional

states, enhance memory recall, and provide unique opportunities for social interaction and

emotional intimacy (A.Scheve,2014).

Despite increasing evidence suggesting that music listening in daily life has stress-

reducing effects, studies mostly rely on subjective, retrospective data on music listening.

Thus, the temporal dynamics underlying the stress-reducing effect of music listening

remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to examine the temporal dynamics of the associations

between stress and music listening by assessing subjective and objective data on music in

daily life (Wenson, M., 2018).

Music is one of the most beautiful natural ways to wellness and healing.

Science has proved the effect music has on our mind, body and soul (G., Saraswati,

2018).

The researchers stated that music therapy, is a therapy to relieve and to avoid stress,

because music can help an individual to relax, music is also an instrument to lift up mood.

The researchers also stated that music is away to reminisce a memories.

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Background of the study

Music listening has been suggested to beneficially impact health via stress-reducing

effects. However, the existing literature presents itself with a limited number of

investigations and with discrepancies in reported findings that may result from

methodological shortcomings (e.g. small sample size, no valid stressor). It was the aim of the

current study to address this gap in knowledge and overcome previous shortcomings by

thoroughly examining music effects across endocrine, autonomic, cognitive, and emotional

domains of the human stress response (Myriam V. Thoma, Roberto La Marca, and Urs M.

Nater ,2013)

Although the term “Stress” is generally claimed as something negative, it is in

reality also a positive driver. In order to perform well, a certain degree of positive stress

(called EUSTRESS) is needed. Positive stress can be experienced when someone is well

focused on a specific task, motivated, feeling confident and also excited about the result

he/she is hoping to achieve. It is a typical short term feeling.

Negative stress (called DISTRESS) occurs when a person feels unable to perform

or to cope with a situation.  This feeling can be short or long term.  It causes anxiety or

concern and can lead to mental and physical problems.  The causes (called STRESSORS) for

the negative feelings of stress do not always lie with external situations. Internal feelings (i.e.

fear of doing something), thoughts (i.e. continuous worrying) and certain behaviors (i.e.

procrastination) can also lead to negative stress. Music listening has been suggested to

beneficially impact health via stress-reducing effects. However, the existing literature

presents itself with a limited number of investigations and with discrepancies in reported
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findings that may result from methodological shortcomings (e.g. small sample size, no valid

stressor). It was the aim of the current study to address this gap in knowledge

(Bioricks,2015).

Music therapy has a previously been found to be effective and the treatment of

depression but she studies have been methodologically insufficient and lacking in clarity

about the clinical model employed (Gold, C., 2011)

Music listening has been suggested to beneficially impact health via stress-reducing

effects. However, it was aim to the current study to address this gap in knowledge and

overcome precious shortcoming by thoroughly examining music effects across endocrine,

autonomic, cognitive, and emotional domains of the human stress response ( M., Thoma, et.,

al, 2013).

We’ve found compelling that musical interventions can play a health-care role in

setting ranging from operating rooms to family clinics ( A., Novotrey, 2013 ).

When you get home, you put on your headphones and try to relax. You close your

eyes and fill your mind with the twang of the guitar, the beats of the drums, and the

cascading sounds of the piano keys ( S., Jewell, 1997 ).

Despite increasing evidence suggesting that music listening in daily life has stress-

reducing effects, studies mostly rely on subjective, retrospective data on music listening (A.,

Linneman, 2017).
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Objectives of the Study

This study aims to pretend stress of Grade 11 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

Mathematics) students in their specialization on Basic Calculus.

Specially, the research dealt to achieve the following objectives:

1. Determine the interest of the respondents in terms of:

1.1. Music

1.2. Computing Basic Calculus

2. To help the respondents that Music Therapy can reduce the any kind of stress.

3. Determine the interest of the respondents in terms of:

1.1. Interest to the use of Music Therapy

1.2. Experience to using Music Therapy

4. Evaluate the level of acceptability of Music therapy when it comes in stress reliever in

terms of:

1.1. Content of the Material

1.2. Clarity of the Material

1.3. Usefulness of the Material

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Significance of the Study

The researchers believe that Music therapy is better because it helps those who

encounter stress and deep thoughts.

Students. The students are one of the most who encountered a stress in everyday life; they

lock of time to find the solution about that stress. By means of this Music Therapy, it

help students to refresh they brain and to relax.

Mathematics teachers. The teachers are one who facilitates teaching and learning

mathematics, Particularly in Basic Calculus subject. They connect themselves in

students to have a attention on one to another.

Future Researchers. For the future researchers who wish to conduct parallel studies, they

would be provided with additional information and guides that could be helpful in the

teaching and learning about how they relieve stress using music.

Scope and Limitation

The study focus on describing the relationship between the level of stress and stress

management techniques utilized by the regular level on STEM 11 students in different school

in their related learning experience. The study aims to know how many students who suffer

from stress just because of the subject. Music can help to relieve stress and make the life of

the students enjoyable and easier. The research was conduct on Lucena City National High

School during the second semester SY 2019-2020 particularly from December 2019 to

February 2020. The survey questionnaires for the level of interest would administer in

Lucena City National High School. The respondents for the level of interest would be
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compromised of 40 students. The data were limited to the responses made by selected Grade

11 STEM students. Therefore, to generalize the results, the study should have involved Grade

11 STEM students in Lucena City national High School.

Definition of terms

The following term are conceptually defined to fully understand the meaning and

purpose of this study.

Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish

individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional

who has completed an approved music therapy program.

Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension. It can come from any event or thought

that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. Stress is your body's reaction to a

challenge or demand. In short bursts, stress can be positive, such as when it helps you

avoid danger

Eustress is moderate or normal psychological stress interpreted as being beneficial for the

experiencer. (Positive stress)

Distress is refers to a state of severe anxiety or strain, often brought about by failing to study

for an exam, harassing grizzly bears, or borrowing your sister's clothes without

asking. When used as a verb, to distress means to cause all that pain, suffering and

anxiety — in other words, to stress somebody out.

Stressor is a chemical or biological agent, environmental condition, external stimulus or an

event that causes stress to an organism. Psychologically speaking, a stressor can be

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events or environments that an individual would consider demanding, challenging,

and or threaten the individual's safety.

Anxiety is your body's natural response to stress. It's a feeling of fear or apprehension about

what's to come.

Basic Calculus originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of

infinitesimals", is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same

way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of

generalizations of arithmetic operations

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