The article also discusses how music therapists should plan their sessions around activities that will help the patient function in the community. The music therapist should always push their clients to develop skills that will increase their involvement in the community. Family therapy and the inclusion of young children. Journal of Music Therapy. The article discusses how the use of improvisational music is important in family therapy because it helps with increased communication.
Improvisational music can help families discuss their feelings in a non-threatening way.
The families can discuss emotions that come out in the song that may never have been revealed in a regular therapy session. Use of song writing in psychiatric setting. Journal of Music Therapy. This article discusses how the music therapist can encourage patients to improvise and use nonverbal ways to communicate their emotions, eliminating pressure in therapy. Patients in this study found it easier to share feelings when they expressed them through a piano song or through playing on a drum to depict the way they thought that particular emotion would sound.