Music therapy with teenagers participating in the Program for the Continuity in the Education System: songwriting and urban music.

Abstract

Music therapy positively impacts in teenagers that present disruptive conducts, as it influences in their personal and social behaviors. It is important to work on these fields with students that belong in the Promotion Program for the Continuity in the Education System (PPPSE), whose profiles make them susceptible to temporarily drop school. After doing a bibliographic revision and knowing the specific characteristics of a “PPPSE” classroom in Huesca, an intervention project is proposed through songwriting technique, using the different phases suggested by Derrington (2005). The objectives set are increasing participants’ socioemotional skills and their continuance in the Education System. The composition has been focused on urban music as it was the closest and most significant for the teenagers that participated in the intervention. The evaluation instruments chosen are observation sheets and the Profile of Mood States (POMS). It can be concluded that songwriting and urban music application on these teenagers could influence in the improvement of self-esteem, emotion recognitions, behavior and relationships between equals, and motivation to continue with their studies.