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- Limited evidence suggests music therapy is an effective treatment for improving depression and/or anxiety symptom severity in children and adolescents.
For example, Aalbers and colleagues used an Emotion-Regulating Improvisational Music Therapy (EIMT) intervention that embeds music-making to enhance attunement and emotion regulation to reduce depression symptoms among female young adults.
Limited evidence suggests music therapy is an effective treatment for improving depression and/or anxiety symptom severity in children and adolescents. More high-quality RCTs are needed to address methodological flaws of current studies.
Nov 30, 2021 · We found that most sources concluded that music therapy is more effective than traditional treatments and can be used as a supplement to such treatments. Music therapy has multiple positive socio-emotional, behavioral, and neurological effects, particularly for adolescents with depressive symptoms.
Jun 22, 2021 · For individuals who experience severe problems (e.g., MDD, SUDs), engaging with music may reduce symptoms or improve treatment outcomes. This is the primary goal of most music...
- Daniel E Gustavson, Peyton L Coleman, John R Iversen, Hermine H Maes, Reyna L Gordon, Miriam D Lense...
- 2021
Depression is a very common mood disorder, resulting in a loss of social function, reduced quality of life and increased mortality. Music interventions have been shown to be a potential alternative for depression therapy but the number of up-to-date research literature is quite limited.
Nov 18, 2020 · We found that music therapy yielded a superior effect on reducing depression in the studies with a small sample size (20–50), with a mean age of 50–65 years old, with medium intervention frequency (<3 times weekly), with more minutes per session (>60 minutes).
