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As defined by the Canadian Association of Music Therapy (CAMT, September 2020), music therapy is a discipline in which Certified Music Therapists (MTAs) use music purposefully within therapeutic relationships to support development, health, and well-being.
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What is government regulation? Government regulation refers to the legislation and procedures that a provincial government sets out for a profession and its members to be registered as a health profession within a particular province, with the purpose of protecting the public from harm. Once a provincial government regulates a profession, the Colle...
Why is the proposed new college called the College of Counselling Therapists? In the late 1990’s when individual association members (who would eventually become members of the Task Group for Counsellor Regulation) were submitting applications to the Health Professions Council, the Health Professions Council saw that many like-minded professions we...
Why regulate music therapy? Historically, national and provincial professional associations have had a dual mandate: serving both a self-regulatory function (i.e. certification, standards of education, standards of practice, code of ethics and ethical complaints) and a member service function (i.e. promoting the profession, advertising and public r...
Programs reflect the requirements for a music therapist to achieve MTA Certification. There is consistency in music therapy education across the country with regards to learning outcomes. Benefits to students who attend and graduate from a CAMT-Recognized music therapy education program include:
Mar 15, 2018 · While it may look like a therapeutic relationship exists between the musician and the client, only a board-certified music therapist is trained to incorporate evidence-based music activities to accomplish individualized goals, study the effect of music on clients, and promote measurable changes in behavior or function.
Music therapists use music and clinical interventions in process-centred ways to garner outcomes that help clients improve, maintain, and restore a state of optimal well-being. Music therapy is a valid clinical and creative practice, grounded in a clinical skill set of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
Music therapy is the skillful use of music as a therapeutic tool to restore, maintain, and improve mental, physical, and emotional health. The nonverbal, creative, and affective nature of music facilitates contact, learning, self-expression, communication, and growth.
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Music therapy is the use of patient-chosen music-based modalities such as listening, drumming, lyric writing or analysis, or composition for a specified end, such as calming anxiety, dissipating anger, feeling loss, or relieving depressive or sad feelings.
