Midterm Flashcards
Define Music Therapy using 3 points
- The clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions
- With all ages and abilities
- To accomplish individualized goals
- Within a therapeutic relationship
- By a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program
Name the 4 organizations and their dates
- National Association for Music Therapy - 1950
- American Association for Music Therapy - 1971
- Certification Board of Music Therapists - 1983
- American Music Therapy Association - 1998
What is the function of the CBMT
- Credential MTs
- Define what safe, entry-level practice is
- Maintain certification
What does the AMTA do?
- Advance/advocate public knowledge about MT
- Increase access to MT
- Approve university MT programs
- Approve intern cites
What are the 2 journals of the AMTA?
Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy Perspectives
Evidence based practice is based on what 3 things?
MTs experience, client’s needs and preferences, research evidence
Evidence based interventions can be broken down in to which 4 catergories?
Performance, Improvisation, Composition, Listening
What is entrainment?
Matching rhythms
Describe the Iso principle
Taking a client from where they are to where they need to be using music.
What does RATE stand for?
Referral, Assessment, Treatment Plan, Evaluation and Termination
What is a referral?
It is when a music therapist is recommended by a source (other medical professionals, family, client themselves)
What is Assessment?
Gathering information on the client to assess if they would benefit from MT. This can be done through various ways including observation, formal intakes, from existing records, family, etc.
During Assessment what skills may you be looking for?
Motor, speech, emotional, social, cognitive, music
What is a Treatment Plan?
A treatment plan is developed with goals and objectives.
What is a goal?
A broad or abstract area of functioning you would like to address through a period of time. A general statement of the intended outcome.
What is an Objective?
Objectives are concise and clear and easily trackable. They can be made of incremental steps to achieve a goal or be made of a set of skills within the goal. They are SMART.
What is SMART?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Real-Life, Time Specific
What are the 4 types of music-based methods
Receptive, Recreative, Compositional, Improvisational
What is Evaluation?
Ongoing data collection that can be quantitative or qualitative.
What is Termination
Ending the therapeutic relationship with a client because they are moving, lack of satisfactory progress, or goals have been met.
How does music help process emotion?
Music evokes and expresses emotion.
How does music help with neuroplasticity?
- Music is a whole brain activity
- Hebbian principle
- Preferred music releases dopamine
- Music has a clear, harmonic structure
What is the Hebbian principle?
Neurons that fire together, wire together. This happens during entrainment.
What are the 3 types of research?
Basic, Applied, and Evidence based
What are 3 reasons research is important?
1 - It helps figure out if specific interventions are helpful with specific disorders
2 - It helps refine MT theories
3 - MTs need to understand reactions to musical stimuli
What are the 5 components of the Advocacy pyramid?
What problem does MT Solve Does MT offer a unique solution What is the value of MT Is it cost effective? What is the broader impact?
What are the 3 types of ethics?
Ethics law, professional ethics, personal ethics
What are the 2 codes of ethics in MT?
Code Of Ethics, AMTA
Code Of Professional Practice, CBMT
What is an ethical dilemma?
A dilemma offering 2 or more solutions that each compromise one or more of your ethics.
What is an Approach in Music Therapy?
An approach is an overarching perspective or set of concepts used to explain or deal with phenomena encountered in MT.
