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• Perception of basic emotions in clinical improvisations : an experimental study 

  Kontoniemi, Sanna-Mari (2016)

  Recently the Finnish music therapy research has focused on therapy of clients with depression. In music psychology the global interest in felt and perceived emotions in music has been a clear trend for two to three decades. ...

• Depressed adults’ experiences of listening to their own clinical improvisations at home : A process evaluation of the music therapy homework 

  Snape, Nerdinga; Saarikallio, Suvi; Ala-Ruona, Esa; Hartmann, Martin; Brabant, Olivier; Erkkilä, Jaakko (Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  Introduction Depression has a negative impact on millions of people worldwide, necessitating research into appropriate therapeutic methods. The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate how music therapy clients ...

• Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP) : Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome 

  Saarikallio, Suvi; Toiviainen, Petri; Brabant, Olivier; Snape, Nerdinga; Erkkilä, Jaakko (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  Successful emotional processing is pivotal for the therapeutic change, and music can support emotional processing. However, we know little on how music-based emotional processing actually predicts clinical outcomes. This ...

• My body moves in music therapy : body movements and their role in music therapy in the treatment of depression and an eating disorder : a case study 

  Karvonen, Riikka (2015)

  Music and dance play an important role in every culture and society. In some parts of the world, the word for music and dance is the same. Due to this, one good treatment and psychological support can be music and dance. ...

• Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing: a single-case experimental study with a healthy client 

  Brabant, Olivier; Solati, Safa; Letule, Nerdinga; Liarmakopoulou, Ourania; Erkkilä, Jaakko (Taylor & Francis; Routledge, 2017)

  Resonance frequency breathing (RFB) is a form of slow breathing at around six breaths/min, whose immediate effects are to substantially increase heart rate variability (HRV) and to reduce stress levels. Since RFB has already ...