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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
Also Known As…
- 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 Therapy Specialist
- Music Rehabilitation Therapist
- Hospice Music Therapist
- Home Care Music Therapist
- Expressive Music Therapist
- Creative Arts Music Therapist
- Community Music Therapist
Tasks for “Music Therapists”
- Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of specific treatments or therapy approaches.
- Conduct information sharing sessions, such as in-service workshops for other professionals, potential client groups, or the general community.
- Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.
- Collaborate with others to design or implement interdisciplinary treatment programs.
- Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences.
- 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.
- Supervise staff, volunteers, practicum students, or interns engaged in music therapy activities.
- Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy.
- Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
- Participate in continuing education.
- 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.
- Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.
- Gather diagnostic data from sources such as case documentation, observations of clients, or interviews with clients or family members.
- Plan or structure music therapy sessions to achieve appropriate transitions, pacing, sequencing, energy level, or intensity in accordance with treatment plans.
- Conduct or assist in the conduct of music therapy research.
- Adapt existing or develop new music therapy assessment instruments or procedures to meet an individual client's needs.
- Apply selected research findings to practice.
- Assess the risks and benefits of treatment termination for clients.
- Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
- Establish client goals or objectives for music therapy treatment, considering client needs, capabilities, interests, overall therapeutic program, coordination of treatment, or length of treatment.
- Sing or play musical instruments, such as keyboard, guitar, or percussion instruments.
- 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.
- Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
- Identify and respond to emergency physical or mental health situations.
- Integrate behavioral, developmental, improvisational, medical, or neurological approaches into music therapy treatments.
- Improvise instrumentally, vocally, or physically to meet client's therapeutic needs.
- Compose, arrange, or adapt music for music therapy treatments.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Music video games
- Musical flutes
- Video game consoles
- Pianos
- Computer laser printers
- Digital audio recorders
- Metallophones
- Electronic organs
- Handbells
- Compact disk CD players
- Acoustic guitars
- Automatic blood pressure cuffs
- Digital video cameras
- Cellos
- Orchestral cymbals
- Timpani
- Handheld microphones
- Violins
- MP3 players
- Tablet computers
- Snare drums
- Bass drums
- Personal computers
- Heart rate monitors
- Laptop computers
- Electronic keyboards
- Rhythm instruments
- Autoharps
- Virtual instrument software
- Avid Technology Pro Tools
- Web browser software
- Electronic health record EHR software
- Microsoft Office
- Email software
- Musical instrument digital interface MIDI software