Enhancing improvisational music therapy through the addition of resonance frequency breathing : Common findings of three single-case experimental studies
Brabant, O., & Erkkilä, J. (2018). Enhancing improvisational music therapy through the addition of resonance frequency breathing : Common findings of three single-case experimental studies. Music Therapy Perspectives, 36(2), 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miy009
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Music Therapy PerspectivesPäivämäärä
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One core characteristic of active music therapy is the facilitation of emotional expression
through the creation of music improvisations. In an attempt to further develop this approach, we
created an enhanced form of integrative improvisational music therapy by including 10 minutes
of resonance frequency breathing (RFB) at the beginning of the sessions. RFB is a type of slowbreathing
known for its ability to reduce stress and support emotional regulation. This paper
summarizes the common findings of three single-case experimental studies and introduces a
provisional model to explain the observed effects of RFB. During the breathing itself, all three
clients (two of them healthy and one diagnosed with anxiety disorder) displayed significantly
higher relaxation levels compared to the control intervention, as seen through their level of heart
rate variability (HRV), a measure of autonomic nervous system response. We also found an
association between RFB and the high frequency HRV component (HFnu) during music-making,
with the two healthy clients presenting lower HFnu after RFB, whereas the opposite was true for
the diagnosed client. Lastly, talking and music-making proved to be two very different activities
in terms of HRV, each client perceiving one of them as systematically more stressful than the
other. RFB appears to be an adaptive intervention providing either emotional upregulation or
downregulation depending on the client’s needs, while keeping arousal levels inside the window
of tolerance. Between-group studies would be required to determine whether the addition of RFB
also leads to better therapeutic outcomes.
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