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“Cos like, you take your frustration out on it. I don’t actually know, it feels<br />

weird”.<br />

Yeah. In what kind of way does it feel weird<br />

“Um, like after you do it, you don’t feel angry anymore”.<br />

Oh I see. How did that make you feel afterwards<br />

“Like calm”.<br />

Guy concluded that music therapy had, most importantly, helped him to be calmer<br />

and improve his behaviour (appendix 7.1.6, p.233). His change scores in the BSCI,<br />

BAI and BDBI before and after music therapy mirrored this change that he talked<br />

about because both his anxiety and behaviour self-reported scores went down by -10<br />

and -6 respectively. Mark also felt that music therapy had helped his anger and<br />

behaviour in class. ‘It’s calmed me down quite a lot…I’m more sensible…I don’t<br />

mess about in class as much as I used to” (appendix 7.1.4, p.219).<br />

Andrew talked at length about how his concentration had improved with music<br />

therapy (appendix 7.1.32, p.458) and how that had helped him in lessons. He noticed<br />

that he could concentrate more and was not sent out of class as much, and that had<br />

made a big difference.<br />

“I think it’s made me concentrate and think about stuff more and actually ask<br />

questions more and like people that find lessons hard should do music therapy<br />

because it really helps with that” (appendix 7.1.32, p.462).<br />

He said he used to shout out or sit in class not understanding but not being able to<br />

ask, but he now had the confidence to put up his hand and ask for help. This made<br />

him feel much better about himself as well as consider the impact that his behaviour<br />

had on others:<br />

“I don’t want to be like that anymore cos I probably stopped a few people<br />

learning by doing that. I interrupted their learning, I feel quite bad about that”<br />

(appendix 7.1.31, p.447).<br />

He felt he was achieving more and this was noticed by teachers whose change scores<br />

were +7, -3, and +12 creating an improved average of +5.3. The change happened in<br />

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