Presentation of the course


This course aims to offer an essential and practical overview of music therapy assessment so that music therapists and music therapy students can have access to basic knowledge of this topic. Also, this course seeks to provide foundations to help readers understand the essential elements of music therapy assessment. It is organized based on the four stages of the assessment process: preparation, data gathering, analysis and interpretation of data, and documentation and communication of data/results of an assessment. Each part addresses themes related to each of these four stages. It also has a part that helps introduce music therapy assessment, starting from its foundations, and a part with complementary subjects that offer relevant themes related to music therapy assessment, focusing on the four stages of the assessment process. Given that this course is an overview of the music therapy assessment topic worldwide, it does not bring in-depth discussions.

 
Course topics
 
- Introduction to assessment in music therapy
- Phases of the music therapy process and the assessment process
- Purposes of assessment in music therapy
- Variables assessed in Music Therapy
- Interviewing in music therapy
- Use of tests in music therapy
- Observations in music therapy: systematic
  - Microanalysis in music therapy
- Use of practical activities to assess music therapy for different populations
- Systematising the use of music therapy assessment in music therapy practice
- Validity and reliability within assessment practices
- Recording the assessment process: records, forms and data collection methods
- Selecting the assessment methods and assessment tools in music therapy
- Assessing groups in music therapy
- Interpreting assessment data in music therapy
- Systematising the use of music therapy assessment in music therapy practice



Host – Department of Communication and Psychology (Aalborg University)
Modality –  free online course carried out by the Zoom platform.
Number of participants – up to 300 participants.
Certificate - this course includes a certificate provided by the Aalborg University.
Registration – by the registration form in the link: https://forms.gle/VdCJXCgo9VmcLePi9 


Schedule

15 and 16 October 2022. The course starts at 09:00 and runs until 16:30 each day. There is a lunch break from 12:00 until 13:30.


Facilitator

Gustavo Schulz Gattino, PhD, is a music therapist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark). He is a teacher in the same university's Bachelor's, Master and PhD music therapy programs. He is accredited as a music therapist by the Portuguese Association of Music Therapy (APMT) and the country representative of Denmark in the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC). Dr Gattino is the editor of the Portuguese Journal of Music Therapy (RPM). He is a member of the International Music Therapy Assessment Consortium (IMTAC) and also a member of the Publications Commission of the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT) [gattino@hum.aau.dk]