Open AccessA Kiwi Odyssey: Music Therapy University Training in New Zealand Takes Flight
Author(s) -
Robert E. Krout
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v3i1.114
Subject(s) - music therapy , aotearoa , craft , training (meteorology) , medical education , psychology , history , sociology , visual arts , medicine , geography , gender studies , art , psychotherapist , meteorology
This article looks at the new postgraduate music therapy programme at Massey University in New Zealand, and at how it has developed as this country's first full-time tertiary course in music therapy. Music therapy in New Zealand has a history going back almost 30 years, and the new programme builds on the fine traditions established over that time. The emphasis and challenge have been to craft a programme that weaves the many skills required to become a competent music therapist with the unique flavour of what music therapy is and can become in the ethnically diverse and rich cultures of Aotearoa - New Zealand. Particular attention and discussion are given regarding the issue of supervised clinical training.