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Educational Settings

LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN

Educational Settings

LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN

Music Therapy Works has extensive experience in offering specialised and dedicated services to supporting the mental health provision for looked after children who may have experienced early childhood trauma with unfolding developmental attachment issues. We can provide services which provide support during periods of family conflict, breakdown, transitioning to new homes or schools, new adoption and fostering care settings, dissolution and reconstitution.

Seen as individuals or in groups, music therapy can be an ideal intervention for children and adolescents who are experiencing:

Social, emotional, behavioural and mental health issues
Higher risks of becoming involved in anti-social behaviour and offending
Difficulties with school attendance and engagement
Challenges in forming and establishing positive relationships with peers and friends

In the last few years mainstream and special schools have begun investing their Pupil Premium funding in Music Therapy in order to enhance Looked After Children’s social, emotional and mental well-being. It has also assisted in the child developing relationships with peers and improving their access to the curriculum.

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

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