Music in Re-socialisation of Socially Maladjusted Youth

Małgorzata Przybysz-Zaremba

The article outlines the possibilities of application of music and its elements in therapy of the youth. Appreciating the various functions of music and its influence on human being personality, the authors prove that it can have both positive and negative influence on the adolescents. With relation to the academic paradigms, paying attention to possibilities of therapy through music and its educational functions may result in participation on intervention and therapeutic programmes in various care-educational places as well as schools. For this reason music-therapy is mainly directed at the youth displaying disorders of emotional, behavioural, developmental, mental, personality or social character.