A music therapist visits an older adult female with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at a
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nursing home. The client is tearful and verbalizes feelings of sadness about the recent death of her
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daughter, repeating the statement "If only God could have done better." What should the music therapist
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do FIRST to meet the spiritual needs of the client? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Facilitate fill-in-the-blank song
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writing using the phrase, "If only God."
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Which of the following BEST represents a keyboard accompaniment rhythm for the jazz waltz style? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔This represents the basic rhythmic accompaniment pattern for a jazz waltz, which
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includes syncopation.
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In community music therapy settings, what is a PRIMARY challenge music therapists are tasked with
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addressing in order to ensure that clinical services provided to both clients and community are ethical and
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competent? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Self-exploration in pursuit of cultural humility and reflexivity
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A music therapist has taken a job at a facility with a few older instruments and a limited budget for music
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therapy supplies. The music therapist would like to have a client improviseon a diatonic Orff xylophone
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while the music therapist plays the piano, but the xylophone is missing its F and B bars. Which scale,
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beginning on C, should the music therapist play in to MOST successfully facilitate this experience? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Major pentatonic
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A music therapist in a private school setting conducts a weekly social skills group for students with high-
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functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Goals include controlling impulses, turn-taking, and
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reciprocity. Data indicates three of the four students are making progress towards their goals, but one
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student expresses "music is stupid" and records indicate he particpates less than 5% of the time. Which of
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