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Maintaining Sense of Self Identity in Dementia through Music Therapy

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Title
Maintaining Sense of Self Identity in Dementia through Music Therapy: Personal, Social, and Social Identity
Author(s)
Painter, Jonathan
Advisor(s)
Ierardi, Florence; Culligan, Joanna
Keywords
Music therapy; Dementia; Identity (Psychology); Older people
Date
2019-06
Publisher
Drexel University
Thesis
M.A., Music Therapy and Counseling -- Drexel University, 2019
Abstract
Music provides a link to our personal identity, as well as community and cultural dimensions of our lives. While people with dementia may gradually experience loss of personal identity, music has been shown to assist in accessing autobiographical and episodic memory. Musical preferences, most apparent in adolescence and early adulthood, have been linked to age, musical training, culture, cognition, and social groups. Music therapy offers opportunities for active/expressive and passive/listening experiences, providing a vehicle for recall of defining life events that helped to shape identity and sense of self. Utilizing preferred music may assist the person with dementia in reconnecting with social and cultural identity, as musical preferences develop contextually. Music therapy literature and clinical vignettes describe a basis for theoretically informed clinical approaches based upon human development, sense of self through the lifespan, and relevance to quality of life for persons with dementia. Recommendations will be made for culturally sensitive music therapy assessment, treatment planning, and implementation for recall of personal and sociocultural life events in the preservation of sense of self.
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https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea:9607
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