What is music therapy?
Music therapy is an established profession that involves the therapeutic, evidence-based use of music by a qualified person to enhance and/or maintain physical, social, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning for persons of all ages. Music therapists formulate appropriate goals and objectives for patients and utilize various music therapy interventions to address those goal areas. Music therapists use music to achieve non-musical goals.
Who is qualified to practice music therapy?
Individuals who complete one of the seventy approved music therapy university programs and a 1400-hour clinical internship are eligible to sit for the national certification board examination offered by the Certification Board for Music Therapists. A music therapy curriculum includes extensive musical training, coursework in psychology, counseling, anatomy, specific client/patient populations and diagnoses, research, and music therapy techniques. NorthShore music therapists are board-certified by the Certification Board for Music Therapists and are members of the national American Music Therapy Association.
Where is music therapy currently available within NorthShore?
Music therapy is currently available to patients and family members at Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital, and Highland Park Hospital. The music therapy program is part of the Department of Pastoral Care and Healing Arts.
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