Oral and Interpersonal Communication

Speech Outline Template

 

 

Topic: The impact of music on our mental health.

General Purpose: The effects, benefits, pros and cons of music on mental health.

Specific Purpose: The significance of music on our mental health.

 

Thesis: Music promotes physical rejuvenation, helps to manage stress, enhances communication, improves memory, relieves pain and helps to express feelings.

                         

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

1. Attention getter (No matter what culture, race, or ethnicity that we belong to, we all love music. Musicis a form of art and cultural activity whose medium is sound. Music is itself healing that touches and speaks to everyone reducing depression and pain. It is entertaining and has the impact of making us healthier. Music is a kind of therapy that triggers our emotions and has a deep connection to.)
2. Thesis statement (Music promotes physical rejuvenation, helps to manage stress, enhances communication, improves memory, relieves pain and helps to express feelings.

 

• Preview of Main points (Music is a form of art that is entertaining. It triggers our emotions, and impacts our mood. Music helps us to deal with stress and pain enhancing our psychological well-being.)

Body

1. Main idea (Music impacts our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and psychological well-being.)
2. Supporting point (Listening to music enables us to connect emotionally to things, places and people impacting our moods and actions.)
3. Specific example, detail, or fact (Music therapy helps to improve emotional health. Music is a source of pleasure and brings a feeling of contentment. It has a lot of psychological impacts on our lives. It impacts the way we think, our feelings and behaviors. The fact that listening to music enables us to connect emotionally to things, places, and people is evidence that music has an impact on our moods and even inspires our actions.)
4. Specific example, detail, or fact (Music relaxes the mind, energizes the body and impacts our mood. When music is played when we are performing another activity, the performance of the activity is improved. In this case, music helps to improve the processing speed in the brain and also leads to lots of benefits to memory. Music in this sense boosts mental performance.)
5. Specific example, detail, or fact (The psychological impacts of music are powerful because music therapy is a method that is used to improve emotional wellbeing, helping patients to deal with anxiety, and enhancing their well-being. Music therapy helps us to deal with stress and enhance our psychological well-being)
6. Supporting point (Music alters emotional and psychological arousal.)
7. Music boosts the mental performance when performing an activity. It causes emotional and psychological arousal just like sedatives arousing stimulation before activity or physical exercise.
8. Music improves the processing speed in the brain. It helps us feel more motivated, happy, relaxed and increases the efficiency of the processing in our brain improving our focus.
9. Main idea (Music helps in social connections, physical, mental health, and social functioning.)
10. It enables people to interact, connect, and relate to each other improving our mood and other mental issues.
11. Music enhances communication and interaction between people. Music helps us to express our expressions and is also a way of connecting socially.
12. Music helps to develop self-identity and relationships with other people. Other than stopping the feeling of being lonely, music helps to connect and meet new people in our lives.
13. Music reduces stress, depression and burnouts.
14. Music energizes the body and helps to manage emotions. Music causes emotional changes, can increase happiness and on the other hand, helps to safely experience the feeling of sadness.
15. Music helps us to relax therefore not experiencing burnouts or stressful situations. Research has shown that workers with recreation music-making opportunities have been proved to have very minimal stress, depression, and burnout compared to the workers that do not engage in recreational music-making.
16. Music helps us to improve, maintain and intensify our mood and reduce depression.

  

  

 

• Main idea (Clinical music helps to regulate psychiatric mood disorders)

1. Therapists use music to enhance their patient’s moods and relieve psychiatric mood disorders.
2. Rumination, which is a negative emotion associated to poor mental health can be reduced or avoided through listening to music.
3. Anxiety and neuroticism are other mental health issues regulated by music.
4. Music therapy has a lot of psychological benefits in treatment of mental disorders.
5. Helps to treat people with depression. It works towards relieving symptoms of depression and regulating the patient’s emotions
6. Anxiety and stress are treated by music through music therapy.

 

CONCLUSION

1. Summary of main points (Music has a positive impact on our mental health. It affects how we think, act to situations, relate to people and helps us manage our feelings and emotions. Music keeps us motivated and improves our focus. Music therapy helps to treat psychiatric disorders. Music plays a significant role in our mental health, rather than being a source of entertainment, it helps to regulate our emotions and most importantly treats mental disorders.)
2. Final words ( Music is a need for our mental health, and we need it to survive, be mentally active, and maintain our sanity)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Shively N. A., "Music Education for Mental Health: Creating a Participatory Music After

School Program" (2018). Honors Theses, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 37. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/honorstheses/37

Stewart, J., Garrido, S., Hense, C., & McFerran, K. (2019). Music Use for Mood Regulation:

Self-Awareness and Conscious Listening Choices in Young People with Tendencies to Depression. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1199. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01199