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Derrington 2012 thesis.pdf - Anglia Ruskin Research Online

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therapy does, it really does open up an opportunity to make you one of those<br />

people that can express themselves” (appendix 7.1.12, p.290).<br />

Two Centre School students had used their DVD, made in sessions, as another way of<br />

sharing their experience with family members but they did not talk about this in their<br />

interviews. This shows that the work’s boundaries are still effective and any<br />

recordings or discussion of the work are generally shared carefully.<br />

Would you like to carry on with music therapy once this research project is over<br />

All students who answered this question responded positively. Their optimism, as<br />

they had shown in their feelings about the future (7.5), confirmed an ability to look<br />

ahead and make a choice 51 .<br />

7.8 Conclusion<br />

The interviewer was surprised how ready students were to talk to her and trust her<br />

with sensitive information in their first interviews even though she was a stranger to<br />

them. Many students were quick to disclose lots of information and spoke openly<br />

about their past, their failings, their school exclusions and reasons for them, with little<br />

sense of self-regard and boundaries.<br />

In the second interviews, the interviewer felt that students were more guarded with<br />

their answers and censored how much they were prepared to share. Their responses<br />

had become more socially appropriate to someone that they do not know very well<br />

and were, arguably, a result of therapy. In general, she felt that students were more<br />

self-assured and their behaviour also reflected greater confidence in themselves.<br />

Whilst CVC students talked about achievement, increased concentration levels and<br />

how their improved well-being impacted on others such as friends and teachers, The<br />

Centre School students reported on the satisfaction of getting to a good place with<br />

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />

&" !Of the twelve Centre School students who participated fully in the study, nine<br />

recommenced as soon as the project had finished. One had left school by this time<br />

and the other two were pursuing full-time vocational training off-site.<br />

!<br />

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