Description
Music therapy is a rapidly developing field. This development is resulting in increased demands on practitioners’ skills and competences, and it has implications on the requirements for training programmes, educators’ competences, and music therapists’ continuing professional development. Further, this leads to demands for defining the ‘professional’. Any attempt for such definition however requires a situated understanding of music therapy’s paths of development within particular socio-political contexts.Drawing mainly from the European context, invited roundtable speakers will reflect on music therapy’s development and the emerging needs (and risks) regarding professional regulation, formal registration, governmental recognition and the need for evidence based practice. Speakers’ reflections will form the basis for open discussion with all attendees.
This roundtable draws from a recent collaboration between the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC) and the open access journal Approaches which led to a special journal issue on “Music Therapy in Europe: Paths of Professional Development” (Approaches, to be published in summer 2015).
Presentations:
Giorgos Tsiris (Greese/UK): Welcome and introduction
Claire Ghetti (Norway/USA): The importance of theory construction for the MT field
Melissa Brotons (Spain): Reflections on recognition in a European perspective
Melanie Voigt (Germany): Solo or Tutti, Together or Alone – What Form of Professional/Legal Recognition is Best for Music Therapy?
Lars Ole Bonde (Denmark): GIM and professional organization
Hanne Mette Ridder (Denmark): Reflecting on role of the EMTC
Giorgos Tsiris with the panel: summing up and discussion with the audience
| Period | 7 Aug 2015 |
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| Event title | 8th Nordic Music Therapy Congress |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 8 |
| Location | Olso, NorwayShow on map |