What Do the Cards Tell Me about – Melo-Therapeutic Experience Focused on Developing Emotional Intelligence
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Music therapy provides the access path to self, relying on overcoming barriers of communication and on non-verbal expression of emotions. Creative and expressive techniques helps people to understand themselves, to release accumulated anxieties, facilitating the development of emotional abilities. Objectives: This research aims to study how receptive music therapy combined with other creative and expressive techniques in the experiential group determines the development of emotional intelligence. They were involved 60 subjects with a mean age of 23.74 years, divided into two groups (experimental and control). The members of the experimental group participated in an experiential training focused on developing emotional intelligence. Methods: Before and after the intervention in the experiential group, the participants completed four psychological tests that assess the level of emotional intelligence development and its components: EIS (Schutte et al., 1998), TQE (Segal, 1999), TIE (adapted by Roco, 2001) and BTPIE (Wood & Tolley, 2003). Results: The meto-therapeutic experience, followed by a profound psychological analysis, allowed the members of the experiential group to identify maladaptive patterns that they use in relationships with the others, mostly learned in childhood, then perpetuated sometimes even the over several generations, out of family loyalty. Conclusions: The statistical results obtained show that the use of receptive music therapy together with other creative and expressive techniques challenges the participants to practice their own abilities of introspective analysis, to better know themselves and the others and to understand that each person is unique, and in order to live in harmony together with others, it is necessary to identify one’s own emotions, but also of the others’ and to efficiently manage them.
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Laura E. Năstasă
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