Intersection of Music and Mental Health: Adolescents and Young Adults

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When

July 28, 2022

About

The number of adolescents and young adults reporting poor mental health has drastically increased, impacting education, safety, and futures. Music-based experiences are an engaging, motivating, and affirmative process that improves mental health outcomes and experiences. From personal listening to structured therapeutic programs, music experiences support adolescents
and young adults to:

  • connect with and regulate their emotions
  • build and sustain positive relationships
  • develop positive coping resources and strategies
  • improve their educational engagement and outcomes
  • explore and expand self-concept and identity

The Berklee Music and Health Institute hosted a conversation with medical professionals, practitioners, and musicians to explore the intersection of music and mental health with a focus on the arts as a viable tool for improving adolescent and youth mental health.

Schedule 

Keynote with Susan Magsamen, Founder and Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab and Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead, World Health Organization 

Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health: It’s on All of Us with Fairlee Fabrett, PhD, Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McLean Hospital

Deconstructing Whiteness in College Mental Health Care: How can music-based experiences create equitable access to care? with Jeff Klug, PhD, Dean, Health and Wellness, Berklee College of Music

Musical Performance by Oompa, Nationally acclaimed, Boston-born poet, rapper, and educator, who is forever representing the queer, black, orphaned, hood kids n’ them 

Navigating Intersections of Trauma and Grief in Music Therapy Bereavement Support for Adolescents with Kate Myers-Coffman, PhD, MT-BC, Assistant Professor, Molloy University Music Department

The Joy of Collective Music: Community Music Therapy to Support Student Mental Health with Cynthia Pimentel Koskela, MEd, MT-BC, Clinical Director, Center for Music Therapy and Delia Durán-Clark MSW, M.Ed., Principal, Esperanza Academy

Music Therapy for Social Emotional Learning in Youth from Historically Marginalized Groups with Natasha Thomas, PhD, MT-BC, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Hope and Resilience: Music Therapy for Adolescents with Psychiatric Emergencies with Juan Pedro Zambonini, MMT, MT-BC, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Therapeutic Music Production: Creating Sonic Spaces for Mental Health with Michael Viega, PhD, LCAT, MT-BC, Montclair State University

Roundtable Discussions: An opportunity for participants to reflect on the presentations shared, exchange ideas, and explore key issues, trends, and practices related to the intersection of community and music.