Musikterapi i udredning og behandling af udsatte børn og familier

The focus for this article is social challenges around supporting and securing interaction and attachment within vulnerable families using a music-therapy approach. Music therapy with vulnerable children and families has good, broad applications, and by offering valuable information from robust music therapy assessment methods, it is possible to strengthen parenting competences and parent-child interaction. “Assessment of Parent-Child Interaction (APCI)” is a music-therapy assessment tool developed by the author in order to meet some of the social challenges by offering information to aid goal-setting for treatment. Music therapy as a general approach is also relevant in family-therapy work, and effect studies show improved parent-child communication and relationship, improved development for the child, and better wellbeing for the parent.