Depression is a condition that has affected the lives of millions of people around the world. The main reason depression is such a problem is because it is a conflict with one’s inner self and it cannot be overlooked as much as the person tries. People who have depression have to learn how to cope: some people go to therapy, others keep themselves busy by doing activities like working out, and others are given prescription medicine to help with their symptoms. A coping mechanism that tends to be overlooked, however, is music. People can listen to music and not even realize the impact it is having on them.
Using music to deal with depression has just recently been capitalized on: anyone who has been on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook has seen …show more content…
The first category revolves around the different systems that have been used to treat people with depression and the second category will discuss a music therapy that has already been used. In an effort to elaborate on the first category, one of the first articles that will be examined is “Preliminary Effectiveness of Surviving the Teens® Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness Program on Adolescents ' Suicidality and Self-Efficacy in Performing Help-Seeking Behaviors,” by King, Strunk, and Sorter (2011). In this article, King, Strunk, and Sorter(2011) gave 1,030 high school students in Greater Cincinnati schools a 3-page survey at pretest, immediate posttest, and 3-month follow-up (p.581). The result was that students were significantly less likely at 3-month follow-up than at pretest to be considering suicide, to have made a suicidal plan or have attempted suicide during the past 3 months. Basically, this simple effort to help high school students …show more content…
Likewise, a similar approach was used in Hendricks, Robinson, Bradley, and Davis’s article, “Using Music Techniques to Treat Adolescent Depression,” (1999). They developed a 10-week school-based therapy program using music for teenagers who demonstrated depressive symptoms (p. 39). The results were that depression decreased in the treatment group and at follow-up 6 months later, the reduction in depression continued with the participants (p. 39). This indicated that they were continuing to use music techniques in group counseling (p. 39). The results of this study give credit to what I am trying to prove in my research, since it is proof that music therapy was effective in this
Using music to deal with depression has just recently been capitalized on: anyone who has been on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook has seen …show more content…
The first category revolves around the different systems that have been used to treat people with depression and the second category will discuss a music therapy that has already been used. In an effort to elaborate on the first category, one of the first articles that will be examined is “Preliminary Effectiveness of Surviving the Teens® Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness Program on Adolescents ' Suicidality and Self-Efficacy in Performing Help-Seeking Behaviors,” by King, Strunk, and Sorter (2011). In this article, King, Strunk, and Sorter(2011) gave 1,030 high school students in Greater Cincinnati schools a 3-page survey at pretest, immediate posttest, and 3-month follow-up (p.581). The result was that students were significantly less likely at 3-month follow-up than at pretest to be considering suicide, to have made a suicidal plan or have attempted suicide during the past 3 months. Basically, this simple effort to help high school students …show more content…
Likewise, a similar approach was used in Hendricks, Robinson, Bradley, and Davis’s article, “Using Music Techniques to Treat Adolescent Depression,” (1999). They developed a 10-week school-based therapy program using music for teenagers who demonstrated depressive symptoms (p. 39). The results were that depression decreased in the treatment group and at follow-up 6 months later, the reduction in depression continued with the participants (p. 39). This indicated that they were continuing to use music techniques in group counseling (p. 39). The results of this study give credit to what I am trying to prove in my research, since it is proof that music therapy was effective in this