Can music help teenagers deal with their problems?


Katrina McFerran says teenagers may not open up easily but will share the songs which are meaningful to them. Photos: The Star/Azman Ghani

Jenna's (not her real name) grandmother does not get heavy rock music, not even when it is her grand-daughter’s composition. But she listened anyway because it was 15-year-old Jenna’s attempt at communicating with her. They were going through a tough transition period, thrown together by trauma.

The teenager had just moved in with her grandmother as her parents are heroin addicts who had gone their separate ways and neither could care for her. Jenna’s song had come out from the music therapy sessions she had attended to help her cope with the upheavals in her life.

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