How Important are Music Skills for the Music Therapist? As an educator and clinical supervisor, the question regarding the importance of music skills on the part of music therapists continues to repeat itself. How important is it for the music
One Music Fits All?: Can Music Therapy Interventions be Prescription-based?
If we assume that MT interventions can be prescribed, are we saying that all clients respond to certain musics in the same way? Is that even possible? Do we all really connect to the same music in similar ways? How
What informs treatment and clinical interventions? Past or Present?
Abstract: Research on the Effectiveness of Music Therapy & DIR/Floortime with Children with Autism (does this count as evidence? why? why not?) The Effectiveness of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy within a Developmental, Individual-Differences, Relationship-based (DIR®)/Floortime™ Framework to
Musical Resources for Improvising Music Therapists: Mixolydian for the Guitar & Voice
Below is a brief introduction to the mixolydian mode for the guitar. Also included, are some practice ideas to help incorporate this mode into your clinical tool box. I. INTRODUCING MIXOLYDIAN Mixolydian Mode The relationship to the major scale Relationship
Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile Assessing Level II on the IMCAP-NDRC: Musical (self) Regulation
The Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Relating and Communicating (IMCAP-NDRC®) is a population specific, music-centered based music therapy assessment profiling system targeting specific areas of musical resposnsiveness pertaining to the child’s ability to engage, relate and communicate within
Musical Resources for the Improvising Music Therapist: Middle Eastern Idiom for Guitar
GUITAR TECHNIQUES IN A MIDDLE EASTERN IDIOM LOOKING AT THE SCALE BASED on D Major This particular Middle Eastern Idiom is based on a major scale (D, Eb, F#, G, A, Bb, C#, D) Based on a major scale with the