The Critical Cycle of Mixtape Creation: Reducing Stress via Three Different Group Counseling Styles

Levy, Ian; Travis, Raphael

doi:10.1080/01933922.2020.1826614

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“…Existing interventions with some evidence of success include academic enrichment programs (Bowers & Schwartz, 2017;Lenhoff et al, 2020;Nicholson & Tiru, 2019;Shinwell & Defeyter, 2017), summer camps (Garst & Ozier, 2015;Kirschman et al, 2010;Riley & Anderson-Butcher, 2012), food outreach programs (Collins et al, 2018;Litt et al, 2020;Turner & Calvert, 2019;, and more recently, computer-based and online offerings for summer academic support (Boyd, 2018;Osborne & Shaw, 2021;Pindiprolu & Marks, 2020), and Hip Hop culture and music integrated approaches (Levy & Travis, 2020;Travis et al, 2019a, b).…”

Section: Culturally Responsive and Creative Strategies For Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strategies to promote positive development and optimal mental health through music can range from informal to highly-structured, formal interventions. Effort may be informal self-care strategies by individuals, general prevention and education strategies guided by facilitators, or more structured and codified therapeutic regimens such as the Critical Cycle of Mixtape Creation (Levy & Travis, 2020), Hip Hop Therapy (Tyson, 2002), Rap Therapy (Elligan, 2000), Hip Hop Empowerment (Travis et al, 2020), and Therapeutic Beat Making (Travis et al, 2019a, b). Thus, people may choose to engage music in their everyday life for learning, growth, or coping, recognizing its empowering and health-enhancing effects, with or without any professional or facilitator-mediated support (Anyiwo et al, 2021;Batt-Rawden et al, 2007;Travis, 2013Travis, , 2016.…”

Section: Music Engagement and Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Individual level and group-based intervention efficacy in improving mental health outcomes has been demonstrated qualitatively and quantitatively. Highlights from recent positive impacts from therapeutic uses of Hip Hop include a mixed methods RCT showing improved self-regulation (Uhlig, Jansen, and Scherder, 2019), and quantitative, quasi-experimental designs showing reduced depression and anxiety (Travis et al, 2019a, b) and reduced stress (Levy & Travis, 2020). Levy (2019) showed quantitative evidence of a significant progression in emotional coping.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To accomplish this goal, helpers who use the CCMC in group work take young people through a series of steps that include: Identifying Action Mixtape Area of Interest, Researching Mixtape Content, Discuss and Digest Findings, Developing a Tracklist, Planning the Recording and Release of Mixtape, and Evaluating Mixtape Process and Response to Release (Levy, Cook, and Emdin, 2018a, p. 6). Preliminary research integrating the CCMC model suggests that it has a promising impact on emotional wellbeing factors like stress, anxiety, and depression (Levy & Travis, 2020).…”

Section: The Critical Cycle Of Mixtape Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When investigating the mental health impacts of the combined HHE/CCMC interdisciplinary approach, Levy and Travis (2020) found significant quantitative reductions in anxiety, depression, and stress for participants, across multiple leadership styles. PYD and SEL indicators are hypothesized to mediate these desirable mental health outcomes.…”

Section: The Critical Cycle Of Mixtape Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp

Travis

Levy

Morphew

2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Child and adolescent mental health indicators were trending in the wrong direction pre-COVID-19 and have worsened with the exacerbation of life stressors during a pandemic, especially among youth of color and girls (Racine et al. in JAMA Pediatr 175:1142-1150. Hip Hop integrated group work with adolescents has increased in the literature, with an emphasis on being more culturally responsive and engaging compared to traditional therapeutic approaches. Levy and Travis (J Spec Group Work 45:307-330, 2020) found in their research that while all Hip Hop integrated groups were effective, the semistructured group had the most significant reduction in symptoms of stress, depression, and anxiety, compared to the highly structured and minimally structured groups. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a Hip Hop integrated intervention, that is multi-modal and interdisciplinary (i.e., blending two distinct models [HHE/CCMC] and facilitated by a social worker and school counselor). could effectively promote positive social and emotional development, across three leadership styles. Three groups of six high school students (total n = 18), identifying predominantly as Latinx and Black, were selected from a high school summer enrichment program. Results suggest social and emotional benefits for youth across all groups, regardless of facilitation style. Benefits included increased confidence, a strong sense of community, experiencing joy, and a willingness to step outside of their comfort zones to collaborate and create something personally meaningful. The setting (summer) and sample (high school students) have implications for programming and policies to best meet the mental health needs of youth year round and during times of instability.

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Section: Culturally Responsive and Creative Strategies For Mental Healthmentioning

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Section: Music Engagement and Mental Healthmentioning

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Section: Hip Hop Integrated Intervention Modelsmentioning

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Section: The Critical Cycle Of Mixtape Creationmentioning

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“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp

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Levy

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2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Preparing school counselors for social justice group counseling: Examining, power, privilege, and intersectionality

Ieva

Steen

Beasley

2022

Couns Edu & Supervision

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Given the sociopolitical climate of schools today and multiple crises, school counselors are poised to center healing engagement, antiracist education, and social emotional learning through group counseling. Therefore, counselor education programs must prepare and train social justice‐engaged school counselors with advanced group knowledge and skills to fuel the success of all P‐12 schools. This manuscript specifically explores the extent to which school counselors use the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality within the screening, planning, implementation, and evaluation of small groups. Results indicate while school counselors are facilitating small group counseling, contradictions exist in training and school counselors’ implementation of small groups from the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality to promote social justice and antiracist practices in schools. School counselors perceive they were trained in small group counseling from the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality, however, they reported that they do not implement group counseling from the same lens.

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“Been Through It Too”: Exploring Community Development Through Collaborative Hip-Hop Creation

Wallace

2023

Health Promotion With Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour

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The Critical Cycle of Mixtape Creation: Reducing Stress via Three Different Group Counseling Styles

Cited by 22 publications

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“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp

“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp

Preparing school counselors for social justice group counseling: Examining, power, privilege, and intersectionality

“Been Through It Too”: Exploring Community Development Through Collaborative Hip-Hop Creation

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