![]() I regard my affect as an important therapeutic tool, maybe even more so than my guitar. But what I wish to focus on in this post is the role our own affects, or facial expressions, play in that process. We know that smiling makes us feel good, and so at that very basic level, we know we are accomplishing something when we get smiles from our clients. In fact, it could even be an objective, especially in a psychiatric or behavioral health setting. In the music therapy world, you hear many of the previously mentioned affective descriptions, and you might also hear things such as “bright affect” or “positive affect”, which essentially means pleasant expression, often accompanied by smiles, even laughter.Įliciting a brightened affect from your client is generally regarded as a good thing. ![]() For example, you might hear or see terms such as flat affect (showing no emotion at all), blunted affect (showing little emotion), labile (shifting between intense emotions) or full range (appropriate display of emotions). In psychiatric or psychological terms, affect basically refers the emotions expressed non-verbally by a patient or client. ![]() ![]() In preface to this post, I want to define the word “affect” as it is used here. ![]()
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