Music Therapy's Impact on University Students' Social and Mental Health

The music therapy songwriting intervention is an active, client-centered music therapy approach in which the participant collaboratively create an original song with a professional music therapist. This evidence-based method combines: 1) lyric writing: the participant can express personal experience/emotions through guided lyric creation; 2) musical composition: the participant will choose or improvise their favorite melody, harmony, and rhythm with a music therapist; 3) therapeutic processing: discussion of song meaning and emotional connections between the participant and music therapist.