Impact of Group Music Therapy on the Depression Mood of College Students (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION Mental health problems, which are featured by the disturbance and disorder of mental activities, refer to the undesirable psychological factors or psychological states that affect the normal behavior and activity efficacy of individuals. As a special group that undertakes the high expectation from the society and parents, college students are obviously under more psychological pressure than other peer groups. A review on previous investigations about college students' mental problems showed that college students suffer from different types of psychological problems, especially depression, anxiety, somatization, and interpersonal sensitivity [1-3]. Depression ranks the top among these mental problems that disturb college students in the order of seriousness. Therefore, this study chose depression as the target of intervention of group music therapy. In the mean time, the impact of group music therapy on depression and overall mental health of college students was also explored.