Between the long-standing homophobia and transphobia in our society and the increased cyberbullying, the LGBTQ community face unique mental health challenges. Because today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, I wrote this post to highlight the harm of homophobia and transphobia.
Category Archives: Mental Health
Blog posts related to mental health, including specific conditions
Treating Mental Illness With Music Therapy
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Because of this, I’m challenging myself to write a post every week on a different topic related to mental health. Last week I wrote about how your mental health can affect your overall health through your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This week I’m looking at how music therapy can […]
How Mental Health Influences Your Health: A Key to Well-Being
Health is a multidimensional phenomenon made up of several aspects. Mental health is one of these. This post looks at how mental health influences health.
Music, Substance Abuse and Music Therapy
Music can be helpful for those in recovery from substance abuse. In this post, I highlight some ways that music can assist with substance abuse treatment.
Recognizing the Effects of Bullying on LGBTQ Students
Kids today face bullying in ways that are hard to imagine. Unfortunately, many LGBTQ students experience bullying. In this post, I talk a bit about the state of bullying against LGBTQ students in Boulder County and the effects that such bullying can have.
Teenagers and Music
The Experiences of Teenagers Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager? I think many of us tend to remember the teenage years as being a difficult or awkward time. It was difficult because we didn’t exactly know who we were, other than we weren’t sure if we wanted to be who […]
Middle School-Age Children, Life Skills, and Music
Music can support middle school-age children in the development of new skills and abilities necessary for adulthood, while also helping refine old skills.
Elementary-Age Children, Developmental Skills, and Music
Elementary-age children are continuing to develop and gain new skills that will help them in life. Music can be used to cultivate and support these skills. In this post I talk a bit about what some of these skills are that children are developing during the elementary school years and ways that music can help.
The Role of Music in Early Childhood Education and Development
Music serves a variety of purposes in the early childhood education setting. In this post, I discuss the role music can play in early childhood development.
Education Through Music: What Can You Learn From Making Music?
There is value to music education that goes beyond learning music. In this post, I share a bit about what a person can learn through music.