Music Therapy (Music, Health, Society) Mmus

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy

This programme trains you to work safely and effectively as a music therapist within the Nordoff Robbins approach to music therapy. It does this by offering you opportunities to demonstrate that you have integrated learning from a variety of sources.

This is a practice-centred programme. You will spend one full day per week throughout the programme on placement and we will expect you to demonstrate a growing capacity to work independently as the programme progresses. You will experience three different placements during your two years with us: the contrasts between these, as well as what you learn from your fellow students about their placements, will help you to think about what music therapy has to offer in different contexts. Supervision on the work you do at placement aims to ensure that you are thinking about and reflecting on your practice to an extent that ensures that you are working not only safely but also effectively: ultimately we want you to begin to develop your own "internalsupervisor" so that you are equipped to work independently. We expect you to work hard on extending and diversifying your communicative and social musicianship so that you are able to exercise musical craft in making strategic and informed use of musical elements and processes in your work with people on placement. To support you in this we provide weekly small-group teaching in this area and we expect you to devote time to practising at home.