A pilot music group for young people attending a community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

Abstract

A music group is a welcome intervention in a CAMHS setting with potential positive benefits for both the service and service users. Further work is needed to establish specific mental health benefits of music-based interventions in young people with mental health difficulties.

Systematic review of effectiveness and satisfaction evaluation in child and adolescent mental health services in Ireland

“…Six studies examined efficacy of a particular clinical treatment with one study each reporting on outcomes following child art psychotherapy (Tanil et al 2018), group cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders (O’Brien et al 2007), dialectical behaviour therapy (Flynn et al 2019), group music therapy (McDonald et al 2015), Parents Plus training programme for the parents of children with behavioural and developmental problems (Coughlin et al 2009) and a family intervention (Wynne et al 2016). One study examined the introduction of an ADHD-specific clinic (Damodaran et al 2012), whilst another compared a brief consultation and advisory (BCA) approach with treatment as usual (TAU) for non-complex referrals, using a randomised controlled trial (RCT) design (McGarry et al 2008).…”

“…Three out of the eight studies took place at a single site (O’Brien et al 2007; Damodaran et al 2012; McDonald et al 2015), and five were multi-site. There were three prospective studies with before-and-after measures (McDonald et al 2015; Wynne et al 2016; Flynn et al 2019), two retrospective evaluation studies (Damodaran et al 2012; Tanil et al 2018), one non-RCT (Coughlin et al 2009) and two RCTs (O’Brien et al 2007; McGarry et al 2008).…”

“…The study types are detailed in Table 3. Six were quantitative and two (McDonald et al 2015; Tanıl et al 2018) used mixed-methods. Sample sizes varied across both quantitative ( N = 5–199) and qualitative studies (from N = 1–5) and by reporter (clinicians, parents and young people).…”

Why art matters for youth mental health: A youth led participatory insight analysis

“…Increased self-awareness, self-efficacy, and self-esteem were reported to have protective and curative effects (Mueller et al, 2011, McDonald et al, 2015, Keller et al, 2017, Persons, 2009. In addition to reducing problem behaviours, and depression and anxiety -an increase in these domains led to improved resilience, and prosocial behaviour (Rowe et al, 2017, Mueller et al, 2011, Ispanovic-Radojkovic, 2003, Cobbett, 2016, Momartin et al, 2018.…”