Research On Music Therapy And Its Application In Psychological Counseling For Undergraduates

Objective In this thesis, music therapy approaches and their applications in psychological counseling for undergraduates are presented and discussed with the research background of communication apprehension for undergraduates. The existing research results are surveyed and the music desensitization method for dispelling the communication apprehension is studied in detail. Experiments are carried out in-depth and the results are discussed in detail to discuss the feasibility and practical values of music therapy for psychological counseling for undergraduates.Methods The students from the nursing school of a medical university are tested using PRCA-24 and 314 questionnaire forms are collected, where 17.5% of them are with high communication apprehension (score is greater than 79). Then the volunteers of them are recruited to attend our music therapy activities. They are randomly divided into two groups evenly: the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group is trained using music desensitization. PRCA-24, PRCS, FNE and Shyness Scale are tested before and after the treatment respectively, and the results are compared with each corresponding issues of the control group. The satisfaction of the experimental group for music desensitization is investigated using subjective questionnaire. More details about the feasibility and effectiveness of the presented approach are further discussed based on the analysis of the treating process and case study.Results Before the treatment of music desensitization, the members of the experimental group and the members of the control group are similar on the entire scale index; but after intervening there is remarkable difference between the differential values of these tow groups. The satisfaction of the experimental group is rather positive.Conclusion Music desensitization for dispelling the communication apprehension of undergraduates is effective and feasible, and this intervention method is popular to undergraduates. Hence, it is suggested that more applications of music therapy be explored for the psychological counseling and enrich the psychological intervention techniques for undergraduates, which will also promote the development of music therapy and its application in China.