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Proposal

Therapeutic Music Interventions for Criminal Thinking Errors

30 hours

Community partner: UWEC Music & Theatre Arts
Supervisor: Lee Anna Rasar
Beginning date:
2025-04-30
Ending Date:
2025-05-16

Service-Learning Proposal Description

1.

Briefly describe the project and the community need to be addressed.

Answer The Eau Claire County Jail is required to lead Criminal Thinking Errors classes and Music Therapy has been asked to help structure them similar to how we use music therapy in Anger Management in the jail. This project would involve students in creating therapeutic interventions based on songs to reflect the different characteristics in each criminal thinking error.

2.

What is the mission of the agency or organization?

Answer To structure therapeutic activities for rehabilitation for inmates in the Eau Claire County Jail

3.

What skills are required for this project? 

Answer knowledge of criminal thinking errors knowledge of therapeutic uses of music - examples: lyric analysis and discussion, song writing knowledge of the inmate population

4.

What are the objectives for the student learning and service?

Answer to provide therapeutic music interventions for 8 criminal thinking errors for inmates at the Eau Claire County Jail

5.

What are the availability requirements for the student?

Answer the time to create the interventions

6.

Additional information (not required).

Answer Two students had interviewed me and my anger management partner at the jail for a podcast for a different class. We provided much background information about the therapeutic programming for music in the jail. One of the students is taking the Influence of Music on Behavior class this semester and has experience with the therapeutic interventions using music. The other student is majoring in Psychology and Criminal Justice. This project grew out of these experiences as the need existed and they had an interest in being part of that project.
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