Katrina McFerran – A New Vision for Mental Health

Let’s rework our approach with ‘angry young people’

Author: Editorial 16th May 2018 0 Comments

Prof. Katrina Skewes McFerran writes: “It’s an incredible feeling to connect in a meaningful way with angry young people who feel excluded, rejected and unhappy. My profession, music therapy, uses music to forge those connections, whether by drumming together as…
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The role of group singing … to promote mental health recovery

Author: Editorial 30th April 2018 0 Comments

From the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and their abstract of research concerning “Musical recovery: the role of group singing in regaining healthy relationships with music to promote mental health recovery”: “Music therapy has previously been identified as a way to foster processes of mental…
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arts, grounded theory, group singing, Jennifer Bibb, Katrina McFerran, Mental health recovery, music therapy, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, Research