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Lyric Analysis And Songwriting With Adolescent’S Processing Complex Trauma, Peyton Mayzel
Lyric Analysis And Songwriting With Adolescent’S Processing Complex Trauma, Peyton Mayzel
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
This study examines how lyric analysis and songwriting can aid adolescents processing complex developmental traumas. The use of music, lyric analysis, and songwriting can provide a space for adolescents to express themselves and process their struggles they have encountered in their lives. Music, lyric analysis, and songwriting can also be used as a way for adolescents to build their self-identity and help them to make important life decisions. These concepts are all related to the attachment, self-regulation, and competency (ARC) model created by Blaustein & Kinniburgh in 2005. This model is used in treatment with children and adolescents who have …