Music Therapy Degree Program 2 years, 1400 hours Tuition: $36,000
A complete degree program in Music Therapy education and training, certified with EQF level IV (European Qualification Framework)
1. Echo- dialogical Music Therapy features 242 hours
2. UF 1, skills and transversal skills, 92 HOURS
3. UF 2, Music Therapy technical – operational skills, 320 HOURS
4. UF 3, Specialist area, 370 hours
5. 618 hours of practice
Students are required to have a final examination which will be in three parts:
Written Test | Practice Test | Oral exam
Students who pass the final examination will be certified with an EQF level IV and may exercise the profession in compliance with the regulations in force.
Music Therapy Practitioner’s Degree Program
1400 hours of training
UF 1 SKILLS AND TRANSVERSAL SKILLS |
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COMMUNICATION AREA |
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Basic Elements of Social and Intersubjective Communication | 8 |
Para-Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication | 12 |
Psycholinguistics and Language Construction (Language as a Pre and Post-Verbal Conception) | 8 |
Analysis of the System of Expectations (Attitudes and Prejudice, Needs and Motivation) | 8 |
Problem Solving and Decision Making | 8 |
Observation, Elaboration, Inductive Methodology (+ Creativity and Intuition) | 12 |
Animal and Comparative Psychology (Behavior and Conditioning Models) | 12 |
Metacognition, Individual thought Patterns and Theory of Mind | 8 |
Elements of Transactional Analysis and Gestalt | 8 |
Relationship Ecology (Ecology of the Mind and Pragmatics of Human Communication) | 8 |
UF 2 |
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Employment Contract and Main Regulations Governing Labor Relations. Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities in the Workplace. Safety Legislation for Workers Legislative Decree 81/2008; Fire Prevention and Alert Procedures for the Relevant Services | 12 |
Anthropology of Music and Ethno-Musicology | 4 |
Psych pedagogy and Sociology of Music | 2 |
Neuropsychiatry | 40 |
History, Theories and Models of Music Therapy | 50 |
Music Listening Conducts | 12 |
Musical Education / Guitar | 24 |
Educational Music/ Piano | 20 |
Basic Percussion Techniques | 8 |
Unconventional Instruments use in the Music Therapy Relationship | 8 |
The use of the Main Parameters of Music in Music Therapy | 8 |
Vibration-Emotion-Physiological Reaction Sound and Molecular Structure Body Resonance and Vocal Massage the Sound massage | 16 |
Cultural Anthropology and Construction of Beliefs (Rituals and Community Experiences) | 8 |
General and Developmental Psychology | 8 |
Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology (with Elements of the History of Psychology) | 8 |
History and Evolution of Psychological Therapies | 8 |
Voice Utilize in the Therapeutical Relationship . Elements of Vocology | 4 |
Vocality and Personal Resonance | 24 |
Therapeutic Vocation | 20 |
Basic Elements of Organology | 2 |
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Composition and Musical Improvisation Techniques | 12 |
Individual and Group Vocal Improvisation | 20 |
New Technologies to Support Music Therapy | 2 |
UF 3 |
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370 HOURS |
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The MED Method (Eco dialogic Documented Music Therapy): Emotional Resonance and Phenomenological Ecology of Therapeutic Dissociation | 46 |
The MED Method (Eco dialogic Documented Music Therapy): Documentation System | 48 |
Burnout Treatments | 8 |
Individual and Group Active Music Therapy Techniques | 32 |
Individual and Group Receptive Music Therapy Techniques | 8 |
The Evaluation Plan of the Dysfunctions Identified | 8 |
Production of Musical Materials for areas of Intervention (Childhood) | 24 |
Production of Musical Materials for areas of Intervention (Developmental Age) | 24 |
Production of Musical Materials for areas of Intervention (Geriatric Age) | 24 |
The Plan of the Meetings, the Setting and the Sound Instruments in Function of the Educational and Health Structures in Which one Finds Oneself to Operate. | 2 |
Clinical and Therapeutic Protocols of MED | 4 |
MED.doc (MED Didactics Over Class): The Med Method in to the Informal Teaching of Music Education | 24 |
The ERS / PAM in the MED | 2 |
Rhythmic Sound Exercises for Enhancing Attention and Memory |
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Clinical Improvisation | 24 |
Acoustics, Psychoacoustics and Echo-Location | 8 |
Observation of Human Behavior Applied to Therapeutic Processes and the Helping Relationship (the Patient’s Brain and Changes in Therapy) | 8 |
Anthropology, Psychology and Neurophysiology of States of Consciousness (Normal and Altered, the Notion of Natural Dissociation, the Various Conceptions of ‘Unconscious’, Trance and Performance) | 8 |
Therapy in Progress (Holding, Empathy, Transference and Counter-Transference) | 8 |
Common Therapy Elements (Ericksonian Rapport, Body, Voice and Mirror Neurons) | 8 |
Continuity and Circularity of the Mind-Body System (Psychosomatic, Bioenergetic, Placebo / Nocebo Effect) | 8 |
Taking Charge of the User in Music Therapy | 2 |
The Construction of the Helping Relationship in Music Therapy | 12 |
Strengthening the Relationship of Trust in Music Therapy | 8 |
Universalization, Generalization and Complex Observation Techniques | 6 |
Laboratory: Interdisciplinary Visual Tools. | 4 |
Laboratory: Realization of Tactile Material for Children with Visual Handicaps | 4 |
Psychological Defenses, Overcoming and Using Resistances in Therapy, Evaluation of Iatrogenic Consequences | 8 |
At the end of the training course, (including 468 hours of internship to be performed at, In educational, reception and healthcare structures that Athena can recommend to the student, without the commitment of having to provide them directly, unless otherwise indicated at the time) for 1400 hours in total. the students will meet a final examination that will be divided in three tests:
Written Test
Practice Test
Oral Exam
Chosen by the commission composed according to the standards of our country by external sector experts, regional commissioners, and internal teachers.
The students that will exceed the final examination will be certified .
Once the qualification has been achieved and the working procedure has started, the Athena professionals are held to an annual update for which the online platforms will be processed.
Once the year the Athena board and its collaborators will have the right to check on the spot, the quality of the work of the professionals from their certificates, who will receive a 40-day notice.