PREP EXAM STUDY SHEET 2026
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◍ MTAO. Answer: provincial board (supports the profession)
◍ How to become an MTA in Canada. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 1. precomposed music
2. listening
3. singing
4. song writing
5. improvising
,◍ Why Music?. Answer: 1. universal phenomenon
2. flexible therapeutic medium
◍ what is not music therapy?. Answer: 1. no music background
required
2. not entertainment
3. not music lessons
4. not special music education
◍ process to receive music therapy. Answer: referral
assessment
goals
treatment plan
reports & re-assessment
◍ personal qualifications of music therapists. Answer: 1. musician
2. therapist
◍ Since when has music therapy been regulated?. Answer: 1974
◍ preliterature and ancient cultures dates. Answer: 5000 BC
◍ Middle ages dates. Answer: c. 476 - 1450 AD
, ◍ The Renaissance dates. Answer: 1300 - 1600 AD
◍ Modern medicine dates. Answer: 1800s +
◍ Preliterature cultures/civilizations. Answer: - music = supernatural
force that affected mental and physical well being
"Medicine men"
◍ Ancient Egypt. Answer: magical, religious, and rational
components of medicine existed side by side
- healer's treatment philosophy would generally focus on only one
◍ Ancient Greece. Answer: - 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. Answer: - 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