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- Title
THE MUSICAL AND PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ADOLESCENTS WITH FOSTER CARE EXPERIENCE.
- Authors
Zanders, Michael L.
- Abstract
This qualitative biographical inquiry examined the personal and musical lives of adolescents with foster care experience. Individual structured interviews were conducted with 10 participants (six males, four females) who were enrolled in outpatient therapy. Results indicated that foster care experiences had various impacts upon these adolescents' relationships to music. For example, their involvement in active musicmaking activities tended to decrease as they moved from one placement to another. Music also appeared to influence these adolescents' experiences of foster care. Participants who described positive or healthy relationships with their foster care families tended to be more involved in formal and active music-making activities such as school music programs, participation in music groups, or taking music lessons. Finally, all participants indicated that they spent a significant amount of time listening to music and that they did so for personal and psychological reasons. Music listening helped these adolescents to cope with the ongoing trauma, grief, and loss that they encountered throughout their lives. Implications for music therapy practice, research, and theory are presented.
- Subjects
FOSTER home care; TEENAGERS; MUSIC; EMOTIONAL trauma; GRIEF
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy, 2012, Vol 7, p71
- ISSN
1559-7326
- Publication type
Article