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Emotional intelligence is the personal ability to identify and effectively manage one’s emotions in relation to personal goals (career, family, education, etc.). Even if a person has enough knowledge and intelligent ideas, if he does not know and fails to manage his emotions and feelings, he may encounter difficulties in trying to build relationships with others. The COVID-19 pandemic created fear, anxiety and depression among the population, but the most exposed were those who already suffered from a mental disorder. All these changes could but affect human behavior in the management of interpersonal relationships. Social distancing, meeting bans, hygiene measures, lockdown, closed schools and kindergardens, technical unemployment - for most people life has suddenly changed afterMarch 2020. The consequences are visible especially in mental health and interpersonal relationships.

Through increasing differentiation of skills and globalization, it has become necessary to continually update knowledge and competences to ensure an individual’s life development and self-fulfilment. To ensure that the Republic of Moldova maintains its high standard of living and social cohesion, it is necessary to further enhance the citizens’ high level of qualification and to draw less educated people into the modern society. Responding to the rapid economic and social changes, lifelong learning aims to actively deal with the dynamics of changing the environment and to take advantage of new opportunities in the social, cultural and employment contexts. The development of the informational society and the widespread diffusion of information technologies give rise to new opportunities for learning and establish new challenges and practices regarding the way how teaching and learning should be organized and carried out.

The change in the values of our society, which has a long temporal span, with tensions and contradictions within its own internal reality, with confrontations between two worlds - an outdated one, denied by the process of change, another one- new, under construction, leads to the loss of some values and taking over others. Hence, the inevitable coexistence of old and new values, the coexistence of axiological senses and contrasts with different effects influence the self-consciousness and its involvement in the value system of the personality of young people, provoking the necessity of new investigations. This paper focuses on the value orientations and the values of young people. The possible existence of a crisis of educational values can be announced by lowering the interest of young people and of society, in general, in school, by lowering the prestige of the diplomas that the school institution offers to the graduates, by decreasing the prestige of the teaching profession, by the impartiality of the school achievements and the socio-professional ones.

Music therapy is a direction in psychotherapy and psychological correction, based on the use of various musical works for therapeutic purposes. In the narrow sense of the word, music therapy usually refers to audio art therapy, the purpose of which is to influence the patient’s psycho-emotional state. The main goal of music therapy is to harmonize the mental state by developing the ability to self-expression and self-knowledge. The use of music for therapeutic purposes lies in the fact that it can be used on a symbolic level for expressing and exploring a variety of feelings and emotions: love, hate, resentment, anger, fear, joy. This article will consider various types and forms of music therapy, as well as cases of its use in various situations.