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Jan 23, 2019 · Songwriting is a powerful yet flexible technique. Among many purposes and applications, music therapists write original material to personalize sessions, teach nonmusical material or behaviors, and engage in the therapeutic process.
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Mar 4, 2015 · Songwriting in music therapy practice encompasses various techniques whereby clients, children, adults, or older people are assisted, individually or in groups, to create lyrics and music and to perform and/or record their own songs.
Oct 7, 2018 · a music therapist’s role is in making the creation of music accessible to anyone, regardless of what prior barriers they may have encountered. Writing songs with clients is a great way to unlock their creativity, express emotions in a healthy way, increase group cohesion, and create ownership of the narrative.
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Professor Baker notes that lyric creation helps people to share their stories in ways that are socially appropriate: “For example, it is more socially acceptable to share your story of abuse in a song than in a conversation, and [therefore] maybe easier for the person to share the story in that form, and for the audience to receive it. Importantly,...
Therapeutic songwriting can be used across the lifespan, says Professor Baker. In clinical practice it is used with children and adolescents with special needs; children in hospital (including those being treated for cancer); refugees who have been traumatised prior to their arrival in Australia; and children, adolescents and adults who are in pall...
“Therapeutic songwriting can be practiced according to a range of psychological and health-oriented ways of thinking. It can focus on outcomes such as changing something tangible and visible – for instance, behaviours and ways of thinking. It can focus on the experience of creating a song whereby the process unfolds as people tell their stories, ge...
Oct 27, 2020 · Write 3 original songs (at minimum!) with peers so that you have a vault of fresh rep to access with clients. Learn and practice verbal interactions with peers so that when you work with clients, you KNOW that you are doing everything in your power to provide a strong sense of safety & unconditional positive regard.
Composing completely "on your own": Writing music entirely outside of a session, with your client’s process, character, clinical needs and preferences in mind. Composition naturally involves improvising or creating ideas vocally or instrumentally; recording and/or notating it; and then developing the idea over time, outside of sessions.
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Therapeutic Songwriting provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary methods and models of songwriting as used for therapeutic purposes. It describes the environmental, sociocultural, individual, and group factors shaping practice, and how songwriting is understood and practiced within different psychological and wellbeing orientations.
