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Music Therapy

Become a qualified music therapist and learn to use music to improve wellbeing and to positively support people of all ages through diverse challenges.

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Degree

MA (Hons) Music Therapy

Degree Duration

2 years :

Full time

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Start Dates

September

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Degree Overview

Music therapists draw on the innate qualities of music in order to support people of all ages and at all stages of life who are facing diverse challenges. Music therapy facilitates positive changes in wellbeing through engagement in musical interaction. Essential to music therapy is the relationship between client and therapist. At Roehampton we have chosen to base our Music Therapy training programme on the use of psychoanalytic ideas to inform our understanding of the therapy process and the ways the person in therapy uses the environment, the therapist and the music. Supporting theories and ways of working are also studied in order to equip students to meet a range of clinical needs, including an infant observation which assists students in developing their observation and analysis skills.

Music therapy as practised in Great Britain is largely based upon improvisation, the music being the shared and spontaneous creation of the person in therapy and the Music Therapist. Other styles of music, including song writing, the use of technology and pre-composed music are also used as appropriate to the need of the individual.

The programme emphasises your emotional development as a practitioner, together with clinical exploration through critical enquiry. In addition to this, students must be prepared to enter mandatory individual personal therapy for one year of the training.

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Important

You may incur additional costs during your education at the University over and above tuition fees in an academic year such as laptops, Stationary and additional resources

Study Reasons

This course is approved by the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC), this training leads to a nationally recognised professional qualification as a music therapist

Roehampton school of Psychology is the only one in Europe to offer training in all of the arts and play therapies, including music therapy

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