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Article: Music Therapy Assessment of Automatic Thoughts: Developing a Cognitive Behavioral Application of Improvisation to Assess Couple Communication
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- Music Therapy Perspectives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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ABSTRACT: This article is a description of the Music Therapy Assessment of Automatic Thoughts (MTAAT), a cognitive behavioral intervention designed to help couples improve communication. This method was designed to be a part of the type of communication training exercises that may take place in marriage counseling. It involves spouses taking turns improvising on percussion instruments to depict musically what they perceive as their typical pattern of communication. While one improvises, the other writes thoughts that result from what the other is musically "saying." These are designed to serve as assessments of the automatic, conscious thoughts each spouse has when communicating. The ...