Resilience, music therapy, and human adaptation: nurturing young children and families

Pasiali, Varvara

doi:10.1080/08098131.2011.571276

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“…The results obtained in the present study suggest, consequently, the need to deepen the relationships identified between consumption and the perception of the value given to music, and its potential as a resource to face the negative emotions produced by isolation and loneliness. In this sense, the influence of socio-cultural experiences on human adaptive capacities and their resilience has already been evidenced, whose increase could be mediated by music therapy ( Pasiali, 2012 ). Likewise, Morris ' recent research (2020) shows that music workshops are presented as an affective conditioning factor in the perception of temporal and spatial reality of immigrants held in British detention centers.…”

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Music as a factor associated with emotional self-regulation: A study on its relationship to age during COVID-19 lockdown in Spain

Martín

Sánchez

Miguel

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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The purpose of this research is to reveal the possible relational influence of age on frequency and form of music consumption, its use, and value as a factor associated with emotional self-regulation in pandemic contexts. With this objective, this study applied a transversal, descriptive and analytical design in a sample of 1377 Spaniards during the confinement of COVID-19 from March 14 to June 20, 2020. The results report that music has been an essential generalized support for living with isolation and a powerful instrument for emotional self-regulation and relief from loneliness. Although an increase of 56% in the daily use of music for self-regulation of emotions was detected, higher frequencies of consumption, mainly in solitude, and a better conception of this artistic expression are identified in the population over 51 years old. However, young people between 18 and 40 years old stood out in the use of music as a resource to alleviate loneliness. These results confirm that music seems to have arisen as one of the most used artistic expressions to cope with loneliness, to relate to the outside or as a tool to endure psychological and emotional states catalogued as negative such as anxiety, anguish and depression, among others. Likewise, they evidence its role in personal and social wellbeing in distant age ranges, and the relational influence of music and age in contexts of isolation and loneliness.

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Music as a factor associated with emotional self-regulation: A study on its relationship to age during COVID-19 lockdown in Spain

Martín

Sánchez

Miguel

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Heliyon

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“…This could disrupt the early relating experiences so important for the child's development and relationship between carers and child. There seemed to be links showing the potential for the development of healthy attachment styles and music therapy work which supported my position (Pasiali, 2012).…”

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We All Came From Somewhere

Coombes

2018

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Abstr Abstract actThis reflection on practice concerns a short-term music therapy project undertaken in 2014 with asylum seeking families in a major city in S. Wales. The project was designed to support these families in settling in their new home, and was the first music therapy initiative for the charity who funded it. The work itself caused the therapist to reflect on the countertransference engendered by the experience and how this aspect of the work enabled her to gain a deeper understanding of issues faced by those who find themselves seeking asylum in another country.

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“…This music therapy scholarship actively challenges the oversimplification of young people into categories of risk and deficit (Thomas, 2020), promotes collaboration (Bolger, 2015), and seeks to actively decenter narratives of victimhood in favor of young people's resources and resilience (Pasiali, 2011;Fairchild and McFerran, 2018). Researchers have demonstrated the unique role that music therapy can play with communities of young people who are marginalized along axes of race and class (Hadley and Yancy, 2012;Leonard, 2020;Thomas, 2020), and as an affirmative, political space for queer and gender diverse young people (Bain et al, 2016).…”

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The Limits of Resilience and the Need for Resistance: Articulating the Role of Music Therapy With Young People Within a Shifting Trauma Paradigm

Scrine

2021

Front. Psychol.

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A broad sociocultural perspective defines trauma as the result of an event, a series of events, or a set of circumstances that is experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting impacts on an individual’s physical, social, emotional, or spiritual wellbeing. Contexts and practices that aim to be “trauma-informed” strive to attend to the complex impacts of trauma, integrating knowledge into policies and practices, and providing a sanctuary from harm. However, there is a body of critical and decolonial scholarship that challenges the ways in which “trauma-informed” practice prioritizes individualized interventions, reinscribes colonial power relations through its conceptualizations of safety, and obscures the role of systemic injustices. Within music therapy trauma scholarship, research has thus far pointed to the affordances of music in ameliorating symptoms of trauma, bypassing unavailable cognitive processes, and working from a strengths-based orientation. In critiquing the tendency of the dominant trauma paradigm to assign vulnerability and reinforce the individual’s responsibility to develop resilience through adversity, this conceptual analysis outlines potential alternatives within music therapy. Drawing on a case example from a research project with young people in school, I elucidate the ways in which music therapy can respond to power relations as they occur within and beyond “trauma-informed” spaces. I highlight two overarching potentials for music therapy within a shifting trauma paradigm: (1) as a site in which to reframe perceived risk by fostering young people’s resistance and building their political agency and (2) in challenging the assumption of “safe spaces” and instead moving toward practices of “structuring safety.”

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Resilience, music therapy, and human adaptation: nurturing young children and families

Cited by 17 publications

References 62 publications

Music as a factor associated with emotional self-regulation: A study on its relationship to age during COVID-19 lockdown in Spain

Music as a factor associated with emotional self-regulation: A study on its relationship to age during COVID-19 lockdown in Spain

We All Came From Somewhere

The Limits of Resilience and the Need for Resistance: Articulating the Role of Music Therapy With Young People Within a Shifting Trauma Paradigm

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