Music means hope for depressed young people
SRH University and Heidelberg University Hospital are conducting a pilot study to investigate how a new form of music therapy can be successfully used with depressed adolescents.
As part of the "Wired by Music" project, Franz Resch from Heidelberg University and Thomas Hillecke, representing SRH, want to support children and young people between the ages of 13 and 17 who are suffering from a depressive episode or chronic depression and are already undergoing medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. They will receive twelve free individual music therapy sessions in the outpatient clinic on the campus of SRH University Heidelberg.
Mindful listening to their "own" music and creating individual playlists for mobile devices, which the young people can use to help themselves in various situations, are part of the therapy, according to the press release. The young people approach their emotions musically and set them to music in joint improvisations. Piano, guitar and percussion instruments are available for this purpose. Musical role-playing games or therapeutic songwriting are also possible.
