102:. Common conditions that both listening to music and free improvisational music therapy has been shown to access include withdrawal, general expression of feelings, anger, fear, anxiety, extreme physical tension, confusion, loneliness, complex pain problems and each patient's search for meaning. There are many reasons why music therapy has been a main practice for BCHC. Its philosophy of increasing confidence, feeling powerful and being in control- as well as their approach in stressing an integration of mind, body and spirit- correlates well with music therapy's holistic and unifying effects on recipients.
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nearly closed the BCHC for good. The report claimed a higher death rate for patients that attended to the BCHC's methods compared to those that did more conventional treatments alone. As a result of the bad publicity, classes closed and donations dried up until the
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and was displeased with her treatment with a lack of attention to her emotional, spiritual, or dietary needs. In 1980, the BCHC officially opened with Bea Vernon- the Gentle
Approach to Cancer founder- as one of their first patients. In 1983, there was an expansion buying the Grove House to offer
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was a set of directives to reinvigorate the BCHC's research. Courses became offered, patients had the opportunity to share and release their emotions, and there became available may therapies. A monitoring and evaluation system was set up with links between the two
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