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Music Therapy for Psychiatric Patients

The Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre is a collaborator in the Music Therapy project with the Faculty of Music at The University of Melbourne, Sunshine Hospital and University of Bergen, Germany.

Aims of the Music Therapy Project

The aims of this study are:

To examine whether resource-oriented music therapy helps psychiatric patients with low motivation for therapy to improve negative symptoms and other health-related outcomes.

To determine whether the therapy helps the patients to improve in the following secondary outcomes:

general symptoms; general functioning; clinical global impressions, and
secondary outcomes specifically linked to the assumed mechanisms of the therapy: interest in music; motivation for change; self-efficacy; self-esteem; vitality; affect regulation; relational competence; actual social relationships.

Provided that significant effects are found: To determine whether general outcomes are mediated by specific outcomes.

Investigators

Dr Linda Kader, Assoc Prof Denise Grocke (Faculty of Music) and Prof Christos Pantelis

Ethics

Melbourne Health

Title: Resource-oriented Music Therapy for Psychiatric Patients: A Satellite Study

Principal Investigator: Dr Linda Kader

Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre

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