Learning from experiences in action: music in schools to promote healthy coping with grief and loss

This vignette illustrates how an individual with a complex pathology can present with a sight-threatening condition that appears to resist medical treatment in some measure if the psychological component is ignored. The case exemplifies the way in which therapeutic intervention can help in the recovery from a sightthreatening condition and from the underlying trauma associated with it. It is recognised that people affected by sight-threatening conditions will understandably experience very strong and at times overwhelming feelings related to grief and loss. In this case, the possibility of sight loss created a severe reaction of panic and confusion, and disrupted cognitive functions. These problems were often compounded by symptoms including anger, disassociation, apathy, and depression. This vignette showed how Bowlby's concepts of attachment and loss, and maternal deprivation, helped in the therapeutic alliance. The understanding of the client's internal working model was fundamental to the ongoing therapeutic process that allowed her to heal.

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Nam June Paik’s Traumatic Aesthetics of Action- Music: From His Childhood to the German Period

The Journal of Art Theory & Practice ◽

10.15597/jksmi.25083538.2019.27.099 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 99-135

Author(s):

Daewoong Ahn ◽

Keyword(s):

Action Music

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Counselling Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Use of Narrative Therapy

Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling ◽

10.1017/jrc.2012.6 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 37-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stuart Wark

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Narrative Therapy ◽

Goal Attainment ◽

Social Constructionist ◽

Grief And Loss ◽

Descriptive Case Study ◽

Severe Intellectual Disability ◽

People With Intellectual Disabilities

This article uses a descriptive case study design to examine the potential of narrative therapy as a direct intervention for adults with moderate-to-severe intellectual disabilities, autism and/or severe communication limitations. Archival clinical data on four individuals who received a form of social constructionist narrative therapy are examined for goal attainment. The data were analysed qualitatively with specific input from individuals, their families and carers. Findings indicate improvements in quality of life through reductions in situational and environmental anxieties, and in coping with grief and loss. The results suggest that narrative therapy techniques can be beneficial in assisting individuals with severe intellectual disability to achieve meaningful and persistent improvements in their life.

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