Music 2MT3 Midterm 1 Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
Music therapy (CAMT definition) - ANSWER✔✔-A discipline in which credentialed
professionals (MTA) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support
development, health, and well-being
Music therapy general ideas - ANSWER✔✔-- creates a bond with patient
- safe space to explore emotions
- work towards rehabilitative goals (speech, motor skills)
- social connection
3 main areas of music therapy - ANSWER✔✔-Guitar
Piano
Voice
Canadian Association of Music Therapists (CAMT) - ANSWER✔✔-- name changed to
this in June 2016
- a federally incorporated, self-regulated non-profit professional association
,- creates strong MTAs
- bring awareness to the profession and MT services
- protects the public
Provincial music therapy associations - ANSWER✔✔-do not regulate the profession; do
provide support
Educational Preparations - ANSWER✔✔-- recognized training program
- multidisciplinary education and training
- study of music, physiology, anatomy, biology, anthropology...
- must complete a 1000 hr supervised internship
- informs clinical needs of music
Requirements to become MTA - ANSWER✔✔-- supervision/internship
- Certification Board of Music Therapists (CBMT) Exam
- continuing education
- maintain credential through CAMT (5 year cycle education process)
Personal Qualifications of a MTA - ANSWER✔✔-Musician - good music skills,
knowledge of musical styles, uses flexibly and creatively
,Therapist - good emotional and physical stability, helping others, patient, ethical,
genuine
The Psychotherapy Act (2007) - ANSWER✔✔-Was proclaimed by the Ontario
government on April 1, 2015, bringing the College of Registered Psychotherapists of
Ontario (CRPO) into full operation as a health regulatory college
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) - ANSWER✔✔-- regulates its
members in the public interest under the Psychotherapy Act (2007) and the Regulated
Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA)
- only members of CRPO can use "registered psychotherapist" (RP)
- only applies to therapists working in Canada
A music therapy session overview - ANSWER✔✔-1. Hello/greeting song
2. Music therapy interventions
3. Goodbye song
Music therapy interventions include: - ANSWER✔✔-P.I.L.L.S.S.
Pre-composed music
Improvisation
, Listening
Lyric analysis
Singing
Song-writing
Music therapy intervention goals - ANSWER✔✔-- facilitate speech and communication
- improve self confidence/expression
- stability in movement/range of motion
- social skills
Pre-composed music (intervention) - ANSWER✔✔-- to motivate people
- powerful tool in therapy
- songs can evoke strong emotions or memories (not always positive)
Listening (intervention) - ANSWER✔✔-- helps develop cognitive skills:
attention/memory
- e.g. in dementia, increases orientation and accesses memories
Singing (intervention) - ANSWER✔✔-- development of articulation, rhythm, breath
control
- social skills/awareness of others (in group settings)
Questions and Answers
Music therapy (CAMT definition) - ANSWER✔✔-A discipline in which credentialed
professionals (MTA) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support
development, health, and well-being
Music therapy general ideas - ANSWER✔✔-- creates a bond with patient
- safe space to explore emotions
- work towards rehabilitative goals (speech, motor skills)
- social connection
3 main areas of music therapy - ANSWER✔✔-Guitar
Piano
Voice
Canadian Association of Music Therapists (CAMT) - ANSWER✔✔-- name changed to
this in June 2016
- a federally incorporated, self-regulated non-profit professional association
,- creates strong MTAs
- bring awareness to the profession and MT services
- protects the public
Provincial music therapy associations - ANSWER✔✔-do not regulate the profession; do
provide support
Educational Preparations - ANSWER✔✔-- recognized training program
- multidisciplinary education and training
- study of music, physiology, anatomy, biology, anthropology...
- must complete a 1000 hr supervised internship
- informs clinical needs of music
Requirements to become MTA - ANSWER✔✔-- supervision/internship
- Certification Board of Music Therapists (CBMT) Exam
- continuing education
- maintain credential through CAMT (5 year cycle education process)
Personal Qualifications of a MTA - ANSWER✔✔-Musician - good music skills,
knowledge of musical styles, uses flexibly and creatively
,Therapist - good emotional and physical stability, helping others, patient, ethical,
genuine
The Psychotherapy Act (2007) - ANSWER✔✔-Was proclaimed by the Ontario
government on April 1, 2015, bringing the College of Registered Psychotherapists of
Ontario (CRPO) into full operation as a health regulatory college
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) - ANSWER✔✔-- regulates its
members in the public interest under the Psychotherapy Act (2007) and the Regulated
Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA)
- only members of CRPO can use "registered psychotherapist" (RP)
- only applies to therapists working in Canada
A music therapy session overview - ANSWER✔✔-1. Hello/greeting song
2. Music therapy interventions
3. Goodbye song
Music therapy interventions include: - ANSWER✔✔-P.I.L.L.S.S.
Pre-composed music
Improvisation
, Listening
Lyric analysis
Singing
Song-writing
Music therapy intervention goals - ANSWER✔✔-- facilitate speech and communication
- improve self confidence/expression
- stability in movement/range of motion
- social skills
Pre-composed music (intervention) - ANSWER✔✔-- to motivate people
- powerful tool in therapy
- songs can evoke strong emotions or memories (not always positive)
Listening (intervention) - ANSWER✔✔-- helps develop cognitive skills:
attention/memory
- e.g. in dementia, increases orientation and accesses memories
Singing (intervention) - ANSWER✔✔-- development of articulation, rhythm, breath
control
- social skills/awareness of others (in group settings)
