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Job Description
Plan, organize, or direct medically prescribed music therapy activities designed to positively influence patients' psychological or behavioral status.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1125.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Music Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Music Therapists
- Music Therapist, Public School System
- Music Therapist, Primary Service Coordinator
- Music Therapist
- Hospice Music Therapy
- Director, Private Music Therapy Agency
- Director of Music Therapy
- Director of Music
- Clinician
- Board Certified Music Therapist
- Music Rehabilitation Therapist
- Hospice Music Therapist
- Home Care Music Therapist
- Expressive Music Therapist
- Creative Arts Music Therapist
- Community Music Therapist
Tasks for “Music Therapy Specialist”
- Supervise staff, volunteers, practicum students, or interns engaged in music therapy activities.
- Customize treatment programs for specific areas of music therapy, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, educational settings, geriatrics, medical settings, mental health, physical disabilities, or wellness.
- Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences.
- Adapt existing or develop new music therapy assessment instruments or procedures to meet an individual client's needs.
- Collaborate with others to design or implement interdisciplinary treatment programs.
- Design or provide music therapy experiences to address client needs, such as using music for self-care, adjusting to life changes, improving cognitive functioning, raising self-esteem, communicating, or controlling impulses.
- Establish client goals or objectives for music therapy treatment, considering client needs, capabilities, interests, overall therapeutic program, coordination of treatment, or length of treatment.
- Integrate behavioral, developmental, improvisational, medical, or neurological approaches into music therapy treatments.
- Improvise instrumentally, vocally, or physically to meet client's therapeutic needs.
- Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
- Engage clients in music experiences to identify client responses to different styles of music, types of musical experiences, such as improvising or listening, or elements of music, such as tempo or harmony.
- Confer with professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
- Plan or structure music therapy sessions to achieve appropriate transitions, pacing, sequencing, energy level, or intensity in accordance with treatment plans.
- Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of specific treatments or therapy approaches.
- Sing or play musical instruments, such as keyboard, guitar, or percussion instruments.
- Assess the risks and benefits of treatment termination for clients.
- Conduct information sharing sessions, such as in-service workshops for other professionals, potential client groups, or the general community.
- Participate in continuing education.
- Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy.
- Gather diagnostic data from sources such as case documentation, observations of clients, or interviews with clients or family members.
- Apply current technology to music therapy practices.
- Select or adapt musical instruments, musical equipment, or non-musical materials, such as adaptive devices or visual aids, to meet treatment objectives.
- Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.
- Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.
- Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
- Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
- Compose, arrange, or adapt music for music therapy treatments.
- Identify and respond to emergency physical or mental health situations.
- Apply selected research findings to practice.
- Conduct or assist in the conduct of music therapy research.
Related Technology & Tools
- Digital audio recorders
- Compact disk CD players
- Heart rate monitors
- Handbells
- Violins
- Video game consoles
- Digital video cameras
- Snare drums
- Autoharps
- Electronic keyboards
- Pianos
- MP3 players
- Personal computers
- Handheld microphones
- Electronic organs
- Computer laser printers
- Orchestral cymbals
- Automatic blood pressure cuffs
- Music video games
- Timpani
- Laptop computers
- Metallophones
- Bass drums
- Cellos
- Musical flutes
- Tablet computers
- Acoustic guitars
- Rhythm instruments
- Musical instrument digital interface MIDI software
- Web browser software
- Electronic health record EHR software
- Email software
- Virtual instrument software
- Avid Technology Pro Tools
- Microsoft Office