SELF-REGULATION: A REFLECTION BASED ON MUSIC THERAPY AND OTHER KNOWLEDGE FIELDS

Abstract

The objective of this study is to offer a synthesis of the literature about self-regulation performed by music therapists and other health professionals. For such purpose, a systematic review of the bibliography on the subject was made. In the last ten years three relevant studies were published correlating Music Therapy and self-regulation showing good results, in which receptive, creative and re-creative methodologies were used. Other studies were found in other knowledge fields, but none of them relate self-regulation improvement to music – a practice that has been used to identify transdiagnostic specific aspects of affective dysfunction in various ways of psychopathy, as well as to identify which pathological processes are common to different disturbances. In cases of comorbidity it was found that demands of regulatory system are aggravated.