MU507
Safe and Effective Use of Self in Music Psychotherapy I
0.5 Credit
MU507
By learning the group analytic music therapy process, students explore a therapeutic and safe use of self and deepen their self-awareness and learn to recognize instances where the therapist's life experiences may enhance or compromise therapeutic effectiveness. Students also learn to structure and facilitate the therapeutic process, understand its different phases, and establish and maintain an effective therapeutic relationship. They observe and practice verbal and music psychotherapeutic techniques and interventions, plan and practice group facilitation, and analyze musical and psychotherapeutic processes learning to understand and analyze its typical phases. Students learn to employ effective skills in observation of self, the client and the therapeutic process and practice therapy that is within their level of skill, knowledge and judgement. They learn to focus and guide sessions, engage diverse clients according to their demonstrated level of commitment to therapy, facilitate client exploration of issues and patterns of behaviour, support client to explore a range of emotions, employ a variety of helping strategies, ensure timeliness of interventions, recognize the significance of both action and inaction, and identify contextual influences. The students learn to review clients' therapeutic processes and assess their progress periodically, making appropriate adjustments. The course includes experiential elements, role-playing and workshops. It equips one-year students for their clinical work and is closely linked and integrated with the two-year students' concurrent MU504 - Music Therapy Placement I and their learning from practicum is further discussed and analyzed.
