MUFHL 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Music Therapy, Wfmt, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: American River College
• Department: Music Fundamentals/History and Literature
• Course: MUFHL 300
• Professor: Hughes

Document Summary

What is music therapy? promote, maintain, and restore mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact, interaction, self-awareness, learning, self-expression, communication, and personal development. The skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to. Music has nonverbal, creative, structural, and emotional qualities. The relationship built between client and therapist is one of the most important things . Through the trust, the music therapy can be implemented to reach the goals such as self expression, communication, personal development. There is an assessment prior to working in a clinical way with the client. A musician comes to the audience already knowing what music they will play. A music therapist will build the interventions based on their assessment. A musician won"t do an assessment with their audience with their client they aren"t just going to impose and play anything they like.