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Towards professionalisation of music therapy: A model of training and certification in Poland
Get PDFSome countries have developed music therapy structures and built good relations between music therapists and other professionals, while others have only just embarked upon this process. In particular, countries and regions where music therapy is not yet well established are struggling with various challenges: How to organise music therapists’ training, develop the discipline and become a partner for national healthcare systems. Formulating answers is not easy and may necessitate a long-term process. In this article I present the sustainable development model for music therapy where I present my perspectives on how an effective system may enable useful structures to be established, training and practice to be enhanced and research and publications to be developed. This system must be flexible enough to consider specific resources, traditions, needs and culture. At the same time, however, it must include some core elements such as appropriate levels of training with internship and supervision and a system of motivation to encourage life-long development, to make it stable and grounded, and to enable its development according to standards. In the article I attempt to formulate clear answers as to how Polish music therapists have found their way to build the profession. It shows a process of training and building structures, and describes important steps that must be taken to provide solid grounds for the development of this discipline
A Community Music Therapy Project’s Journey
Get PDFΑπό την έναρξη του προσανατολισμένου στην κοινότητα μουσικοθεραπευτικού οργανισμού Music for Peaceful Minds (MPM) τον Ιούλιο του 2008, βρίσκονται εν εξελίξει σταδιακές αλλά σημαντικές αλλαγές σχετικά με τους τρόπους που ασκείται και συζητείται η μουσικοθεραπεία παγκοσμίως. Αυτές οι αλλαγές ταυτόχρονα έχουν θέσει ερωτήματα και έχουν ενημερώσει το τοπικό έργο του οργανισμού MPM στη βόρεια Ουγκάντα. Το παρών άρθρο αποτελεί έναν προσωπικό αναστοχασμό αναφορικά με το έργο του MPM κατά τα τελευταία επτά χρόνια, με στόχο να εξηγήσει τη σημασία τού να δουλεύει κανείς ως μουσικοθεραπευτής με γνώμονα την κοινότητα, όταν εργάζεται σε μέρη όπου απατείται μια ευέλικτη προσέγγιση. Πώς αυτό το έργο έχει απομακρυνθεί από τη συμβατική μουσικοθεραπεία; (όπου τα συμπτώματα και τα προβλήματα υγείας σε ατομικό επίπεδο γίνονται το επίκεντρο της προσοχής εντός του θεραπευτικού πλαισίου) (Stige 2002). Και πώς έχει εξελιχθεί ο MPM κατά τη διάρκεια αυτών των χρόνων παράλληλα με τις αλλαγές του επαγγέλματος της μουσικοθεραπείας μετά την εμφάνιση της κοινοτικής μουσικοθεραπείας;Since starting the music therapy Community-Based Organisation (CBO) Music for Peaceful Minds (MPM) in July 2008 there have been on-going gradual but significant changes to the way music therapy is practised and spoken about worldwide that has both challenged and informed MPM’s local practice in northern Uganda.This paper is a personal reflection of MPM’s work over the past seven years with an aim of explaining what it means to work as a music therapist with a community-driven frame of mind when working in places that need a flexibility of approach. How has this work moved away from conventional music therapy (where symptoms and health problems at an individual level are focussed on in a therapeutic space) (Stige 2002)? And how has MPM evolved alongside the music therapy profession’s changes over the years since the emergence of community music therapy
Creativity, Discipline and the Arts at the End of Life: An Interview with Nigel Hartley
Get PDFIn this interview Nigel Hartley discusses the importance of the arts and arts therapy in end of life care and the therapeutic benefits of a shared, public experience of music and art making, performance and exhibition. He contests that arts therapies work best in this setting when the artists and arts therapists are disciplined, flexible and responsive to the both social and private experience of the patients
Music therapy as academic education: A five-year integrated MA programme as a lighthouse model?
Get PDFSeeing the current academisation of music therapy internationally as part of broader processes of modernisation, I reflect on implications for music therapy education. Using the current five-year integrated MA programme in music therapy at the University of Bergen (Norway) as a case example, I reflect on how paths of development are dependent on conditions that are linked to local context as well as broader contexts. Two kinds of broader contexts are taken into consideration in relation to the chosen case example, namely the conditions created by the political history of the nation in question and the shared European conditions created by the Bologna Process on standards in higher education. Given that the original local context of the Bergen programme was the rural town of Sandane, the interplay with these two broader contexts are communicated through use of phrases such as “from Hafrsfjord to Sandane in 1100 years” and “from Sandane to Bergen, via Bologna”. I think it is valid to claim that paths of development are local in many ways, but Europe is a local context too, if a bit broader. In a section I call “Bildung, Bongo, and Bologna”, I give examples of interrelated contexts in the development of the programme in Bergen, before I conclude with some reflections on the conditions created by the Bologna Process. Local and national conditions vary, so perhaps no music therapy education can be a lighthouse for others, but in some ways the Bologna Process operates like a lighthouse that gives directions for more homogenisation and academisation of music therapy education in Europe
The Bonny method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) in Europe
Get PDFThe Bonny method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) was developed in the United States of America (USA) in the 1970s and came to Europe in the 1990s. It is a truly international model of receptive music therapy, practised in five continents, and yet it is not registered or integrated in the European music therapy community, e.g. as related to the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC). This apparent paradox is addressed in the article which gives a short historical overview of the development of GIM in Europe, followed by a status – an overview of current GIM trainings and practitioners in European countries – and a discussion of core issues related to the organisation of GIM in Europe and to standards of training and clinical practice. From 2014, GIM in Europe has founded its own association (the European Association of Music and Imagery, EAMI), and the question of the relationship between EAMI and EMTC is now open
A process of two decades: Gaining professional recognition in Austria
Get PDFThe following article describes Austria’s long process to get a professional recognition for music therapists. Within this law, from 2009, music therapy is defined as an autonomous, scientific-artistic-creative and expressive therapy. As early as the run up to negotiations, the collaboration with universities, hospitals, the Austrian Association of Music Therapists (ÖBM) and the Ministry of Health needed to be structured very cautiously. In addition the Austrian Psychotherapy Law from 1992 was relevant to this process
