MU158 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Music Therapy
Document Summary
Music therapy designed as the use of, application of something, or a collection of techniques. Present music therapy as a tool or implement to accomplish something. Emphasize music therapy as an intentional, scientific, or technological use of something. Use is based on certain knowledge and skill base used by a professional. A process, approach, form of treatment, or framework . Suggest its a multifaceted and perhaps more complex way of working that involves more than one tool acting in complementary and reciprocal ways. Suggests music therapy can be an interpersonal endeavour, as well as an objective or scientific one. Some definitions in this schema imply the therapist must be intentional and well-informed. Others imply the process is relational and client-centred. Others inply how multifaceted music therapy is (scientific, artistic, creative, expressive) Defines music therapy as a discipline, practice, or profession. Imply a meta-perspective is needed to identify where music therapy belongs in the larger frame of healthcare.
