Open AccessPersonal Reflections on working as a Music Therapist, Music Therapy Groups and Music Making
Author(s) -
Becky White
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v12i2.666
Subject(s) - musical , music therapy , psychology , identity (music) , music psychology , music and emotion , autism , personal identity , aesthetics , music education , visual arts , social psychology , psychotherapist , music , pedagogy , art , developmental psychology , self
This paper explores how studying clinical work can be a rich experience and lead to personal and musical development. In this paper I describe completing a master’s project on group work for children who have autism. This paper describes how analysing a group in detail (using music and video coding analysis) and reading literature on music therapy and group work, led to a personal prompting to reflect on my own musical experiences and identity and to develop more as a musician. It explores how the roles of music therapist, student and musician can influence each other an be blurred together, and how I experienced cross-over in my personal and musical life.