Area 1. Music therapy

This area is programmed as an experience of self-knowledge, reflection and the acquisition of theoretical-instrumental knowledge, with the aim of developing the latent potential of the future music therapist. Hence it involves:

A. Understanding the implications and basis of music as a means of therapy.
B. Learning how to make and maintain appropriate therapeutic relations by knowing the patient and oneself.
C. Becoming aware of and facing up to one’s own abilities and shortcomings in the non-verbal context, coding them subsequently in a verbal context and thus increasing the possibility of widening them.
D. Finding out about the different strategies, methods and materials used in music therapy.
E. Acquiring the ability to design, adapt, assess and carry out the activities and tasks involved in a music therapy programme.


SEMINARS

• Experiences in Music Therapy 72 h.
• Methodology 24 h.
• Assessment and Evaluation 36 h.
• Practical intervention models (improvisation) 36 h.
• Intervention models: clinical practise (theory) 36 h.
• Aplication areas: 36 h.
       o Mental Health
       o Psychiatry
       o Special needs
       o Geriatry
       o Others
• Individual tutorial 6 h.
• Workshops 90 h. 


Area 2. Music and Acoustics

We believe that a music therapist should have musical skills and sensitivity and should be able to value people’s attitude towards and potential for creating sound (music).

Hence this area involves:

A. Training of audio perception.
B. Basic learning of the musical code and musical improvisation in music therapy.
C. Working with all the different sound-making and musical instruments. 
 
SEMINARS

• Music seminaries ( group instrumental improvisation) 72 h.
• Seminary in acoustics 24 h.
• Individual instrumental improvisation 6 h. 


Area 3. Psychology

In this area it is necessary for the student to find out about people both as they evolve normally and also how their pathologies that require therapeutic intervention develop. Hence this area involves:

A. Finding out about different aspects of human behaviour by studying different psychological theories.
B. Studying psychotherapeutic approaches and knowing when to apply them.
C. Finding out about the different schools of psychology that study human communication.
D. Group dynamics. 

SEMINARS

• Affective bonds. Theory of communication (verbal – no verbal) 12 h.
• Group process 12 h.
• Psychopathology: special needs 12 h.
• Psychopathology: psychiatry 12 h.
• Creator psyche 12 h.
• Family 12 h.
• Therapeutic frame 12 h.
• Professional role 12 h.
• Music psychology (from the evolution) 12 h. 


Area 4. Integration of the Arts

A. Experience and reflect upon the similarities and differences between aspects of human expression (music, movement and plastic arts)
B. Develop expression skills, achieving inspiration for music, movement and plastic arts.
C. Express ones own bodily and emotional experiences through different art mediums.
D. Communicate and understand communication through art.

SEMINARS

• Integration of the arts: relaxation, guided imagery, body,… 24 h.
• Creative therapies 12 h.
• Body, music and therapy 12 h. 


Area 5. Practical experience and research

This area will be carried out in a clinical setting and it will be up to student and tutor to decide upon how to fit it in. Work will be supervised individually and each student will write a memorandum of his/her practical experience which will make quite clear the theoretical and practical aspects of the work.

SEMINARS

• Evaluation of caseworks 48 h.

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

• Casework 8 months