Back Mountain Music Therapy

11/13/2025

THIS! 🔥

"When you join people where they are and are intentional about what you're doing and how you're tailoring your interactions, it's amazing what can happen."

11/11/2025

Schools, special education, are you paying attention to this?

𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝘃𝘀. 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣
What other differences can you think of between compliance-based approaches and Relationship-based approaches?
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Focuses on controlling behaviors

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Focuses on understanding the sources of behaviors
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Blame is on the child (how can the child change the behavior?)

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Ownership is on the adult (how can I change my behavior to be a better support?)
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Forces child to mask or hide inner experiences to comply.

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Validates and supports each unique inner experience.
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Use of external forms of motivation.

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Builds internal motivation through self-understanding.
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Rooted in power hierarchy (please me to earn reward).

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Rooted in safe relationships (Do well because you feel safe).
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Forms conditional self-worth (Good Behavior = Good Child)

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Forms unconditional self-worth (your feelings are valid).
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: May see immediate results to the detriment of mental health.

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: Gradual results with positive long-term impact on health.
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10/17/2025

Self-regulation does not equate to self-awareness. However, to attain self-awareness and its ascending levels, self-regulation is required.

10/16/2025

Imagine individuals coming , some slumping, shut down, others chaotically moving back and forth,or changing subject to subject. Some going from item to item in the room, unable to focus long enough to dive in, some having a hard time expressing,possibly intellectualizing everything and yet others yelling, melting down. All of them come, one by one in one into the rooms. Suddenly, someone who appears to look like a telephone operator walks into the room. She eyes each individual as they come and takes notice of what each and every person is doing, how they present themselves bodily and affectively....

10/02/2025

Contact with a supportive, safe attachment figure "tranquilizes the nervous system" Schore, 1994 p 224)