Dr. Spencer is faculty for Harvard Medical and Boston Children’s Hospital’s “Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room” conference. He presents research and conducts workshops on magic as an anxiolytic distraction technique and a compliment to sedation.
Kevin encourages medical professionals to incorporate simple magic tricks into their practice as a passive approach. Performing a magic trick for a patient can be a valuable distraction that can:
Magic Therapy is a carefully designed, systematic approach to the therapeutic use of simple magic tricks in physical and psychosocial rehabilitation.
The use of magic fosters an individual’s ability to assume a role to entertain and to have self-efficacy. The underlying concepts in magic target areas of motor, psychosocial, cognitive, and sensory processing [skills] that lend themselves well to intervention.