Steps

and
Measu
res

Develop
ing A
STAGE 1 Relation
ship
Client The client does not pay attention
to the
guidance teacher.
He barely responds to the guidance
Interventio
teacher.

GT

n
The guidance teacher tries to interact with
the client by asking questions.
Sample questions;
1.How do you feel today?
2.Have you eaten?

Justif
y

To build rapport, to create a non-threatening

environment, to show care and concern as
well as to trigger the client to talk to her.

Proble
m
STAGE 2
Assess
The client fiddles with his mobile phone.
He
ment

Clie
nt
shows disinterested with the counseling session.

Intervention
G GT tries another method to grab the clients
T
attention and interest. She uses the clients phone
as a starting point for communication.
GT chooses a song from the clients playlists and
plays the song. (instrumental song)
Both the client and the GT listen to the song.
Effec The client cries after listening to the song. GT
t
asks some questions to the client;
Why are you crying?
How do you feel when listening to the song?
The GT successful in persuading the client to

STAGE 3

Goal
setting

Client After listening to the clients problem, the

and
GT sets an agreement with the client
GT
about their goals.
Examples of questions asked by the GT;
i. What do you want to achieve by the end
of the session?
Justif Why
goalare
setting
is important?
ii. How
you going
to achieve it?
y
The client and the GT know where to go
since they already have their goal to be
accomplished.

People who use goal setting effectively

show more self-confident, perform better,
happier and more satisfied. (Damon

Clie
nt

m
STAGE 4 Interve
The client starts to perform hisntion
own rap. He

writes about the loss and chaos in his life

and his fathers suicide.
He also writes about his thinking to break
free from the cycle of violence and share his
Interventio
feeling of guilt for some
of his actions.
n musical
He also starts to improvise on
GT GTinstrument.
discusses the lyrics with the client, helping
himself to form an understanding of the
connection between these experiences and
his current difficulties.
Effec The client discovers new ways of
t
communicating within music.

STAGE 5

Termin
ation

Client The session ends as the client was

and
leaving the school.
His mood has improved. He becomes
GT
more optimistic about his future and
starts to develop a conscience about
the impact of his actions on others.

CONCLU
SION
Using music therapy might look easy, yet there
are many things to be considered before using
music therapy for children.
The guidance teacher/ counselor must know on
how to choose the right music that is suitable
with the clients problems, or else the
counseling session will be a failure and the goal
will not be achieved.
However, the use of music therapy is very