MUSC 564 - Models of Integral Thinking

Credits: (2)

Prerequisites: Department approval.
This course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of context-oriented, outcome-oriented, and experience-oriented, thinking in music therapy. Students will learn the four music therapy methods: improvisation, recreation, composition, and receptive; they will learn a variety of models of therapy from the major orientations to practice, they will learn how to document clinical data from assessment, to treatment, to termination, and they will develop session plans that consider the client’s needs. Various populations and methods will be approached from a reflexive process. Students will be provided with opportunities to think critically and in-depth about when to use integral thinking in music therapy. They will learn skills and techniques within this means of working with clients.