This course is designed to advanced introduction to music therapy in various settings based on therapeutic goals. The main purpose of the course is to explore of historical perspective of music therapy, defining music therapy, attributes of music therapist, introduction to receptive and expressive music therapy, music psychotherapy, neurological music therapy, singing therapy and so on, considering students’ specific settings.
This course considers the multiple ways to research the definition of music therapy, education and training of music therapists and theoretical music therapy frameworks based on behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, holistic, humanistic, existential, neuroscience, psychodynamic and biblical approaches. This course helps to practice therapeutic musical activities in the various cultures and languages participating peer-reviews, group discussion and therapeutic music portfolio development. Students apply for the examples of how music can work as a therapeutic tool for human needs in various setting to improve cultural perspectives and implementation. In addition, this course is focused on how professional development and responsibilities can improve as a music therapy researcher for therapeutic goals.
This course equips students to examine and articulate advanced music therapy concept, music therapist as a profession and theoretical frameworks in school, hospital, community, and church can be useful to gain the effective insights and possibilities in therapeutic, educational, missional, as well as performance settings. Moreover, this course is provided professional music therapy contexts based on the guideline of the American Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) to help to prepare the Music Therapy Board Certificate (MT-BC) test in future.
‘Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre. Praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute. Praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord’ (Psalms 150, NIV).
As a disciple of Jesus, students practice ‘Christlikeness (Romans 8:29)’, ‘Maturity (Philippians 3:12-16)’, and ‘Creation care (1 Samuel 16:23, Acts 3:8,16)’ through advanced music therapy understanding based on historical perspectives, music therapist as a profession and theoretical frameworks to apply for our lives in school, hospital, community, and church. The therapeutic ‘Damascus (Acts 26:12)’ is developed by the academic and biblical evidence with therapeutic music process help to recognize the diverse function of music for Christian and non-Christian through own missional life.
The course reflects critically, in light of advanced theoretical music therapy frameworks based on behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, holistic, humanistic, existential, neuroscience, psychodynamic and biblical approaches to apply to various aspects of music performance, therapeutic music intervention, educational and biblical musical activities.
The focus is upon how music therapy works as a therapeutic tool for human needs in terms of intercultural perspectives of music and therapeutic musical activities. The inspiration of unique and/or differences of musical intervention helps to understand humans in different cultural settings.
Students apply advanced therapeutic musical phenomenon even though music is invisible, and the process is abstract through current evidence-based music and music therapy research.
The course is a primer to the integration of biblical music origin and advanced therapeutic musical intervention based on historical perspective of music therapy, defining music therapy, attributes of music therapist, introduction to receptive and expressive music therapy, music psychotherapy, neurological music therapy, singing therapy and so on.
