"Music as Bridge Between Strengths and Difficulties: Preventing Mental Ill-Health Through Early Identification and Early Intervention in Adolescence"

Group Music Therapy as a Preventive Intervention for Young People at Risk: Cluster-Randomized Trial

C Gold, S Saarikallio, AHD Crooke, KS McFerran

2017-07-01

Background: Music forms an important part of the lives and identities of adolescents and may have positive or negative mental heal..

Group rumination: Social interactions around music in people with depression

S Garrido, T Eerola, K McFerran

2017-04-04

One of the most important roles that music serves in human society is the promotion of social relationships and group cohesion. In..

Development and validation of the Healthy-Unhealthy Music Scale

S Saarikallio, C Gold, K Mcferran

2015-11-01

Background: Music is an integral part of life in youth, and although it has been acknowledged that musical behavior reflects broad..

Music, Violence and Music Therapy with Young People in Schools: A Position Paper

Katrina Skewes McFerran, Andreas Wölfl

2015-06-23

<jats:p>Music therapists have rarely involved themselves in the discourse linking music and violence.  Instead, representatives of..

Präventive Gruppenmusiktherapie-Programme in Schulen: Umgang mit Gewalt und Förderung eines friedlichen Miteinanders (Preventative group music therapy programs in schools: Promoting being peace together and addressing violence)

K MCFERRAN, A Woelfl

2015-01-01

Depending on music to feel better: Being conscious of responsibility when appropriating the power of music

KS McFerran, S Saarikallio

2014-02-01

This study explores the beliefs held by young people about the power of music to help them feel better during challenging times. P..

A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature Linking Music and Adolescent Mental Health

KS McFerran, S Garrido, S Saarikallio

2013-01-01

There is a diverse literature that explores the relationship between youth, music, and mental health, with few attempts at systema..