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continues to motivate me to find out more about music therapy and its value to<br />

adolescents.<br />

9.8 Last word<br />

This study has taken a step towards finding out how music therapy can help youth at<br />

risk and has given voice to a population which is often misrepresented and frequently<br />

misunderstood. Therefore, the last word goes to one of the students who participated<br />

in this project whose comment, in his interview (appendix 7.1.12, p.292), shows that<br />

he values music therapy and its relevance to others like him:<br />

“I feel that hopefully more children can do music therapy because, whether it<br />

helps them or not, you’ve got to have a go at everything and I hope they have<br />

a go at this because it’s made me feel better and I really want to encourage<br />

them to make themselves feel better. Cos I feel that if they’re feeling better, if<br />

the whole world could be expressing themselves and just feel good, then it<br />

would be amazing.”<br />

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