Musical intervention in family therapy

Journal/Book: Music Therapy. 1994; 12: 39-57.

Abstract: Explored the partial role music therapy may play in family therapy. The systematic, strategic, and structural schools of family therapy offer clinical objectives that may be translated into musical interventions. Music intervention may help in encouraging self-expression, enhancing family communication skills, and handling the structural imbalances of power within the family. In addition, music may help in the assessment of the dynamics within the family, postulation of clinical rationale for the family's dysfunction as a system, and providing interventions to treat pathology. A variety of musical interventions may be used with families, such as conducting, guiding, echoing, and playing of mood themes. Two cases of practical uses of musical therapy have been illustrated.

Note: music interventions; implications for family therapy

Keyword(s): Music therapy; family therapy; dysfunctional family

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