Module Code - Title:
MU5062
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MUSIC THERAPY FIELDWORK PRACTICE 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
MU5211
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To provide students with the opportunity to develop skills in providing weekly regular clinical work alongside a qualified music therapy supervisor as a sessional leader or sessional assistant in clinical sessions and learning in context to apply the framework of assessment, programme planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting.
Syllabus:
Students will be assigned a fieldwork placement alongside a qualified music therapist in a health, welfare, community or educational setting in Ireland up to two days per week. In this supervised fieldwork placement students will develop competencies in planning and leading sessions with music therapy clients. Students will gain information about the role of the facility in addressing needs of clients and the role of music therapy within the broader operational remit of the facility. The placement will continue through the next semester in the module Music Therapy Fieldwork Practice 2.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
1. Identify clientsÆ needs through use of appropriate assessment procedures
2. Develop a music therapy programme to meet the needs of clients
3. Plan music therapy sessions
4. Evaluate music therapy sessions
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
1. Use supervision sessions to reflect on development of skills for future practice in music therapy
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
1. Provide individual/group music therapy in a health, community, welfare, and/or education setting
2. Demonstrate musical interactions appropriate to future music therapy practice
3. Demonstrate skills to report and promote music therapy as a member of
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Clinical fieldwork placement, supervised by a qualified music therapist.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Wheeler, B., Shultis, C, Polen, D (2005)
Clinical training guide for the student music therapist.
, Barcelona
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
triona.mccaffrey@ul.ie