Effects of music therapy on depression compared with psychotherapy

Recorded music in the mental health waiting room: A music medicine investigation

“…Castillo-Pérez, Gómez-Pérez, Calvillo Velasco, Pérez-Campos, and Mayoral (2010) examined the effects of music listening (individual and group) on depressive symptomatology among a convenience sample of 79 medical patients aged 26 to 70 years.…”

Evaluation of a brief art psychotherapy group for adults suffering from mild to moderate depression: Pilot pre, post and follow-up study

“…It is often highlighted that for a deeper therapeutic process to take place, a sufficiently long treatment is required and many research studies that evaluated arts therapies through RCTs worldwide adopted a 12 week intervention (Jeong et al, 2005;Hamamci, 2006). However, recent trends in arts therapies 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 RCT-based research seem to support the tendency to shorten the total time of treatment, while intensifying it by providing therapeutic sessions more often than once a week (Castillo-Perez et al, 2010;Erkkila et al, 2011). A similar approach was adopted in this study, but the findings seem to indicate that a longer treatment might be preferred by participants and potentially lead to more consistent outcomes.…”

Effects of family-based educational music therapy on acute care psychiatric patients and their family members: An exploratory mixed-methods study

“…Regardless of specific diagnosis, most psychiatric consumers experience heightened levels of depression (Kessler, Berglund, Demler, Jin, & Walters, 2005). While some researchers have studied the effects of music therapy on depression in psychiatric consumers (Castillo-Perez, Gomez-Perez, Velasco, Perez-Campos, & Mayoral, 2010;Choi, Lee, & Lim, 2008;Erkkila et al, 2011;Hsu & Lai, 2004;Maratos, Gold, Wang, & Crawford, 2008), there remains a need for additional research.…”