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Music lessons on prescription The impact of music lessons for children with chronic anxiety problems
Ist Teil von
Health Education, 2002, Vol.102 (4), p.172-179
Ort / Verlag
MCB UP Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The aim of this study was to examine the potential role of music lessons as part of a treatment programme for children diagnosed as having severe chronic anxiety disorders. The findings are presented as a series of individual case studies based on the recorded observations of the children, parents, musicteachers and family therapists. Over the period of a school year five children were recruited to receive lessons on an instrument of their choice from an experienced professional musicteacher. Music lessons were credited with improvements in feelings of efficacy and selfconfidence, increased social ease and independence, new opportunities to express creativity and emotional feelings, and control over intrusive thoughts and feelings. Normalisation of the therapeutic environment, combined with freedom from parental pressure to succeed, appears to emerge as a key feature of the success of the project. The findings indicate that music lessons on prescription may offer a useful complement or alternative to therapy for difficult and complex childhood anxiety disorders.