Music Therapy - Answers credentialed professionals (MTA) use music purposefully within
therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being (health care goals**)
CAMT - Answers federally incorporated, self-regulated, non-profit professional association
(regulates the profession)
MTAO - Answers provincial board (supports the profession)
How to become an MTA in Canada - Answers 1. bachelor or master degree in music therapy
2. 1000 hour internship
3. CBMT examination
4. continuing education MTA must maintain credentials every 5 years
CRPO - Answers only members of this organization can use the protected title of "registered
psychotherapist" along with the professional designation, RP
** only applies in Ontario
music therapy interventions - Answers 1. precomposed music
2. listening
3. singing
4. song writing
5. improvising
Why Music? - Answers 1. universal phenomenon
2. flexible therapeutic medium
what is not music therapy? - Answers 1. no music background required
2. not entertainment
3. not music lessons
4. not special music education
process to receive music therapy - Answers referral
assessment
, goals
treatment plan
reports & re-assessment
personal qualifications of music therapists - Answers 1. musician
2. therapist
Since when has music therapy been regulated? - Answers 1974
preliterature and ancient cultures dates - Answers 5000 BC
Middle ages dates - Answers c. 476 - 1450 AD
The Renaissance dates - Answers 1300 - 1600 AD
Modern medicine dates - Answers 1800s +
Preliterature cultures/civilizations - Answers - music = supernatural force that affected mental
and physical well being
"Medicine men"
Ancient Egypt - Answers magical, religious, and rational components of medicine existed side
by side
- healer's treatment philosophy would generally focus on only one
Ancient Greece - Answers - music had a force over though, emotion, and physical health
- healing shrines and temples had hymn specialists and music was prescribed to the mentally
distributed
- emotional catharsis
Middle Ages - Answers - Boethius --> music had the power to degrade or improve human morals
- Cassiodorus --> potent catharsis
- Saint Basil --> positive vehicle for sacred emotion
- Hymns were considered effective against certain unspecified respiratory diseases
The Renaissance - Answers - music = preventative medicine
- many epidemics occurred during this time
The Baroque Period - Answers Kircher --> certain personality characteristics associated with