740-434 Music Therapy in Contemporary Contexts

740-364 Music Therapy for Child Clients

This subject will provide information about working in new and emerging contexts in the community and in medical settings. Lecture topics will promote the development of innovative approaches to music therapy in response to the needs of clients in contemporary contexts. This subject will challenge students to utilise music therapy theory from traditional fields in developing appropriate programs and methods of intervention in group and individual work. It will include a range of issues addressed in therapy, identifying clients who are well, disabled and have health problems. Relevant paradigms for development of original ideas will be discussed and used to frame learning.

Two 1500-word assignments (50% each).

• RR Pratt and DE Grocke, Music Medicine 3. University of Melbourne, 1998.