Collaborative songwriting improves veterans’ PTSD symptoms of avoidance, depression, hyperarousal and hypervigilance, and overall coping skills. Often, individuals are encouraged to write something like a personal theme song, something that reminds them of who they were or who they want to be. This can take the form of an affirmation, a personal mantra, a song that makes the individual feel safe, or one that makes the individual feel power and agency. Comparable to prolonged exposure therapy, the reductions in PTSD symptoms may be due to the collaborative songwriting intervention gently and
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