From art therapist to music therapist
36 of the 96 essential skills of a music therapist are already essential for a art therapist — about 38% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from art therapist in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 36
- skills carry over
- 60
- would be new
- 38%
- of the target job covered
- 96
- essential skills of a music therapist
What a music therapist does
Music therapists use music-therapeutic interventions to treat patients with behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions to prevent, mitigate or eliminate symptoms and to change behaviours and attitudes requiring treatment. They promote and maintain or restore the development, maturity and health of the patient/client by music-therapeutic interventions. Music therapy especially provides help for people with with emotional, somatic, intellectually or socially induced behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions, such as psychoses (schizophrenic disorders, bipolar disorders) and personality development disorders.
What carries over
36 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- behavioural therapy
- cognitive psychology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care legislation
- human psychological development
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage healthcare users' data
- organise relapse prevention
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychological theories
- psychopathology
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
60 skillsEssential for a music therapist and not for a art therapist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- anthropology
- applied music therapy
- apply music therapy assessment methods
- apply music therapy methods
- apply music therapy termination methods
- apply music therapy treatment methods
- assess music therapy sessions
- comply with legal regulations
- conduct musical ensembles
- demonstrate a technical foundation in musical instruments
- demonstrate musicianship
- design evaluation methods in music therapy
- design music therapy termination plan
- develop educational materials on music therapy
- develop original melodies
- developmental possibilities in music therapy interventions
- direct movement experiences
- disability types
- empathise with the healthcare user
- geriatrics
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- history of musical instruments
- identify characteristics of music
- identify patients' behaviours
- implement evaluation methods in music therapy
- integrate scientific findings into music therapy practice
- inter-professional communication in the psychosocial field
- medical studies
- meet the requirements of legal bodies
- meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies
- music therapy processes
- music therapy schools
- music therapy theories
- neonatology
- neurology
- organise group music therapy sessions
- paediatrics
- palliative settings
- peer group methods
- perform musical improvisations in therapy
and 20 more
Other moves from art therapist
2 roles- speech and language therapist29 skills in common
- clinical psychologist28 skills in common
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How far are you from being a music therapist?
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