Online course: An Introduction to Music Therapy

Learn how music can support health and wellbeing and how music is utilized in music therapy practice

Dr.  Annie Heiderscheit

About the course 

This acclaimed introductory course includes 10 sections with 48 lessons exploring the use of music to foster health and wellbeing by examining historical uses of music in healing practices and how this lead to the evolution of the music therapy profession.

In fact, there are evidences abound of music being used in our daily lives and as healing rituals as early as Neolithic times, with ancient cave carvings and bone flutes all seeming to tell us just how key music was to human lives.

The course will review the various ways that music is utilized in music therapy practice to engage a wide array of clients across the lifespan in using music to support their healing. Clinical cases will demonstrate how listening to music, singing and playing music, composition and improvising music are utilized with clients in different clinical settings. These cases demonstrate how the music therapist adapts the method to meet the unique needs and interests of clients.

Experiential experiences are integrated into the course to allow students to engage with music to support their own health and wellbeing. Recent research literature is also integrated into the course to help students understand how music is impacting healthcare and community wellbeing in the 21st century across the globe.

What will students learn in your course?

• Students will learn about how music therapy is a melding of different disciplines such as arts, health/medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, education.
• Student will explore how different types and genres of music are utilized to support health and wellbeing.
• Students will learn how music and its elements influences and impacts health.
• Students will learn the various ways methods utilized in music therapy practice (receptive, recreative, composition, and improvisation).
• Students will examine research surrounding the use of music and music therapy to improve health and wellbeing.
• Students will engage in different methods and ways to use music to foster their health and wellbeing.

What are the requirements or prerequisites for taking your course?

• Students need only have an interest in learning about how music can foster and impact health and wellbeing. No previous music experience is required.

Instructor:

Annie Heiderscheit

Annie Heiderscheit, Ph.D., MT-BC, LMFT, is Professor of Music Therapy and Director of the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, Anglia Ruskin University.

She has nearly 20 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and almost 30 years of experience in a variety of healthcare and clinical settings. She has conducted research with clients dealing with a variety of complex mental health and medical issues.

Register for this course

• Format: video recordings, full lifetime access
• Fee: standard price: 119.99 USD;
• Discount price: 80 USD (for registered IACAET members)
• Click here to register
• Send email to education@inspirees.com for any question.
  

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