Music and Health in Community

Catalog description

Cultural responsivity is an increasingly critical aspect of music therapy practice, challenging the contemporary music therapist to understand the multiple layers of context a patient draws from to engage with and make meaning from music. Building on knowledge and awareness cultivated in Music as Cultural Expressions of Health, this course explores how cultural constructions of music and health can inform and shape culturally responsive and competent clinical practices. This course will examine how communities develop shared musicking and explore ways of treatment planning by drawing from assessments of patients? culturally-informed relationships with music. Pre-requisites: MUTH 601 Applying Research in Clinical Practice, MUTH 603 Music as Cultural Expressions of Health,