Course Description
This course focuses on the development of advanced competence in clinical music therapy practice, particularly in the areas of clinical supervision, clinical administration, clinical skills, and personal development and professional role.
Athena Title
Adv Music Therapy Practicum
Non-Traditional Format
Field work in music therapy in collaboration with music therapy faculty and community healthcare providers.
Pre or Corequisite
MUSI 7370
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Apply comprehensive knowledge of current methods of music therapy assessment, treatment, and evaluation. 2. Design or adapt assessment and evaluation procedures for various client populations. 3. Design treatment programs for emerging client populations. 4. Fulfill the clinical roles and responsibilities of a music therapist within a total treatment milieu and in private practice. 5. Establish and maintain effective supervisory relationships with supervisees. 6. Analyze the supervisee’s music therapy sessions in terms of both the effects of musical, verbal, and nonverbal interventions and the musical and interpersonal dynamics and processes of the client(s)-therapist relationship. 7. Evaluate the effects of one’s own personality, supervisory style, and limitations on the supervisee and the supervisory process and seek consultation as indicated. 8. Apply the principles of effective leadership. 9. Implement music therapy approaches based on knowledge of and sensitivity to the roles and meanings of music in diverse cultures.
Topical Outline
• Clinical Supervision • Clinical Administration • Clinical Skills • Personal Development and Professional Role
Syllabus
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