Date of Award
Spring 5-20-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
MA - Master of Arts
Department
Expressive Therapies
Advisor
Rebecca Zarate
Abstract
In the past decade, research on the impact of climate change on mental health has been increasingly coming to the forefront of individual and collective organizations. Within the field of music therapy, there is an argument to be made that through our professional standards code of ethics, the climate change crisis is our responsibility to address. This intergenerational capstone project served to integrate an existing transformative learning model with principles of Community Music Therapy to address eco anxiety and promote the development of eco-responsibility, change, and agency. Through the collection and reflection of the researcher’s phenomenological experience, the human-nature relationship was defined through stages of apathy, dissonance, anxiety, and transformation. Further research considerations are presented, in addition to a call for increased participation in the climate change crisis as a music therapy profession.
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Recommended Citation
Ames, Sarah, "Songs for a Crying Earth: A Community Music Therapy Engagement Project" (2023). Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses. 682.
https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/expressive_theses/682
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