Indicative criteria for music therapy

The starting point of music therapy is that the presence of the symptoms of a disorder becomes perceptible in the patient's actions in playing en singing and that these actions and the associated experiences can be influenced.

Within GGZ Standards, music therapy is mentioned as a possible form of treatment for, among others, depressive disorders, anxiety complaints and personality disorders.

Problems around emotional perception and expression

• Limited possibility to experience and feelings

• Limited expressibility

• Lack of stress- and emotion regulation

• Compulsiveness

• Mood problems

• Trauma related problems

• Grieving

Relational issues

• Over-adaptation to the other

• Difficulty taking up space

• Problems with setting boundaries

• Problemen met het toelaten v’ contact

• Egocentricity and lack of empathy

Early personality disorders

• On a preverbal level working on the contact with inner feelings

• Learning to mentalize

• Experiencing cherishment

• Improvement of self-care

Separation and individuation problems

• Lack of autonomy

• Inadequate identity development

Excessive rationalisation

• Thinking and talking serves to avoid

• Inadequate connection between thinking, feeling and acting

Psychosomatic complaints

• Lack of contact with body signals and emotions

• Poor handling of one's own boundaries

• Difficult to ask for help

• Unfinished greiving processes

• Not yet words for experiences and feelings

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