CMTE Courses

The 15th World Congress: Pre-Congress Seminars: CMTE courses

Pre-Congress Seminar 1

Title It All Begins with the Music
- Developing your Clinical Skills through the Concepts of Neurologic Music Therapy -
Description Creativity and musicality drive music therapy, but developing interventions based on scientific, therapeutic, and musical logic is also an important aspect of effective therapy. Based on research in neurologic, physiological, and cognitive processes in music perception and production, Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) (Thaut, 1999) provides standardization of clinical techniques. A brief overview of several of the techniques will be provided, leading to an exploration of the Transformational Design Model (TDM) (Thaut, 2005). Video examples and live demonstration from the presenter’s clinical work in NMT will illustrate the vast possibilities of working within this paradigm. Special emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary co-treatment and community based therapy sessions. Participants will work towards increasing their use of musical elements to facilitate goal achievement.
Presenter Sarah B. Johnson, MM, MT-BC
Country USA
Affiliation Guest lecturer,
Clinical techniques faculty and practicum supervisor
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
CMTE Learning Objectives
  • 1) Historical and philosophical foundations of the Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT)
  • 2) Foundational and contemporary case studies
  • 3) Musical/clinical techniques
  • 4) Clinical application with a range of clients
Areas of the CBMT Board Certification Domains addressed To understand basic theory and practice in Neurologic Music Therapy
  • Ⅱ-A-3-e) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the neuroscientific theoretical orientations inform music therapy practice
  • Ⅱ-A-4-h) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the neurological music therapy treatment approaches and models inform clinical practice
  • Ⅱ-A-5-a) Treatment Implementation: To achieve therapeutic goals: apply the elements of music
Course Schedule
1:00 pm -5:40 pm
(15 minutes break ×2 in between)
(250 minutes total)
5:40 pm -
Course Evaluation
Format Lecture and Workshop (seminar, discussion and experiential)

Pre-Congress Seminar 4

Title How Music Helps: in music therapy and everyday life
- Exploring the 'how?' of music's help at micro, meso, and macro levels -
Description Increasingly music therapists and others working musically with people are interested in the continuities between how music helps us all in everyday life, and how we mobilize music's help in 'speciliast life'. The core of this interest is in the 'how?', the local craft of doing this work, and thinking professionally about it in ways that are more 'commonsense' - such that we can communicate more easily with clients, carers and fellow professionals. This presentation will explore the idea of a 'joined-up music therapy' that links micro and macro contexts through the idea of the 'meso' level of working. It draws from Nordoff Robbins, Community Music Therapy traditions, and 'commonsense' theory.
Presenter Gary Ansdell, PhD
Country UK
Affiliation Associate of Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy (UK);
Honorary Professor, University of Exeter
CMTE Learning Objectives
  • 1) Theoretical and philosophical foundations of the Nordoff-Robbins and Community Music Therapy approach
  • 2) Theoretical exploration
  • 3) Musical resources and techniques
  • 4) Clinical application with a range of clients
Areas of the CBMT Board Certification Domains addressed To understand and explore theory and practice in "How Music Helps" :music therapy and everyday life
  • Ⅱ-A-3-d) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the humanistic/exitential theoretical orientations inform music therapy practice
  • Ⅱ-A-4-c) f) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the community music therapy and improvisational treatment approaches and models inform clinical practice
  • Ⅱ-A-5 Treatment Implementation: To achieve therapeutic goals
Course Schedule
1:00 pm -5:40 pm
(15 minutes break ×2 in between)
(250 minutes total)
5:40 pm -
Course Evaluation
Format Lecture and Workshop (discussion and experiential)

Pre-Congress Seminar 5

Title Music Therapy and Palliative Care for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Their Families
Description Palliative care is a comprehensive system of care that provides comfort, pain and symptom management, and psychosocial support to patients and families with potentially life-threatening or chronic illnesses. Participants learn how music therapy is being used to address psychosocial and symptom management needs of children and adolescents with cancer and their families. Using video case examples and research findings, we explore underlying theory, clinical processes, and outcomes for two interventions. The Therapeutic Music Video intervention uses songwriting/video production to improve positive health in adolescents/young adults during high risk cancer treatment. The Active Music Engagement intervention uses music-play to help young children and parents manage distress and improve health outcomes. Please join us as we examine how music therapy is addressing palliative care needs of pediatric cancer patients and their families.
Presenter Sheri L. Robb, PhD, MT-BC
Country USA
Affiliation Associate Professor,
Indiana University School of Nursing
CMTE Learning Objectives
  • 1) Theoretical and clinical foundations of Music therapy in Palliative Care for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Their Families
  • 2) Contemporary case studies
  • 3) Musical/clinical techniques
  • 4) Clinical application with specific clients
Areas of the CBMT Board Certification Domains addressed To understand theory and practice in Music Therapy and Palliative Care for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Their Families
  • Ⅱ-A-4-g) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the medical music therapy treatment approaches and models inform clinical practice
  • Ⅱ-A-5 Treatment Implementation: To achieve therapeutic goals using Therapeutic Music Video and Active Music Engagement Interventions.
Course Schedule
1:00 pm -5:40 pm
(15 minutes break ×2 in between)
(250 minutes total)
5:40 pm -
Course Evaluation
Format Lecture and Workshop (experiential)

Pre-Congress Seminar 7

Title First Sounds: Rhythm, Breath & Lullaby NICU Music Therapy Training
Description The intra-uterine sound environment leaves a wordless and amorphous memory trace which serves as a template for all future rhythmic response and provides us with a lifelong sound and rhythmic symbolic image of security, thereby providing for continuity between intra- and extra-uterine life. A range of philosophical and theoretical stances frame the application of music in the NICU and Special Care Nurseries. RBL champions live music making between infants and their caregiver and is informed by theories of healthy dyadic and triadic development, trauma amelioration, and neuropsychological development. RBL seeks to embrace models, which enable culturally sensitive applications rather than imposing a singular cultural model. We acknowledge a diversity of philosophical stances making it possible for the Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby program to support effective practice, Interventions for families of infants in the NICU encourage and support the caregiver-infant bonding process, provide trauma amelioration, and offer a means of coping.
Presenter Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC
Country USA
Affiliation Director, The Louis Armstrong Ctr for Music & Medicine
Associate Professor,
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System
CMTE Learning Objectives
  • 1) Theoretical and Clinical Foundations of Music Therapy in Neonatal Intensive Care: Three Prongs-Parents, Environment, Infants
  • 2) First Sounds: Clinical techniques of music entrainment applications in psychotherapy
  • 3) Trauma and aspects of treating neonates with rhythm, breath and lullaby
Areas of the CBMT Board Certification Domains addressed To understand basic theory and practice in NICU Music Therapy
  • Ⅱ-A-3-c) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the holistic theoretical orientations inform music therapy practice
  • Ⅱ-A-4-e)f)g) Treatment Implementation: Recognize how the NICU music therapy treatment approaches and models inform clinical practice
  • Ⅱ-A-5-a) Treatment Implementation: To achieve therapeutic goals: apply the elements of music
Course Schedule
1:00 pm -5:40 pm
(15 minutes break ×2 in between)
(250 minutes total)
5:40 pm -
Course Evaluation
Format Lecture and Workshop (experiential)
Number of CMTE Credits Offered:
5 Credits
Prerequisites:
None
Course Cost:
8,000 JYN for each course
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
A 100% refund (cancellation fee of 2,000 yen deducted) if you cancel before May 31, 2017.
The payment will be refunded after deduction of the cancellation fee of 2,000 yen. There will be no refunds for cancellations after that date.
The Japanese Music Therapy Association reserves the right to cancel a course due to insufficient enrollment or unforeseen circumstances. Registrants will be notified by phone and email within 48 hours prior to the course; full refunds will be issued.
STATEMENT OF RELATIONSHIP TO CBMT:
Four courses above are approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 5 Continuing Music Therapy Education credits.
The Japanese Association for Music Therapy, CBMT Provider #P-159, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.
Grievance Policy:
Participants in WCMT pre-congress seminar have the right to file a grievance. Participants must provide written documentation of the complaint within 30 days of the activity, outline the problem as it is perceived, and state the preferred solution. Mail the grievance letter to the Japanese Music Therapy Association (JMTA) , 6th floor, Hamamatsucho 1-20-8, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Zip 105-0013. Once the grievance letter is received, the director will review the information, and then respond in writing within 14 days of receipt of the grievance letter. If you disagree with the resolution of the grievance, you have the right to appeal the decision within 14 days. State the reasons for your appeal in a letter and mail it to the Japanese Music Therapy Association (JMTA), 6th floor, Hamamatsucho 1-20-8, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Zip 105-0013. JMTA will review the appeal and respond in writing within 14 days of receipt of the appeal letter. If the grievance involves a CMTE course and it is still not resolved satisfactorily, you have the right to ask CBMT's Continuing Education Committee to address the unresolved grievance.
Confidentiality policy:
All information received from the participants will be treated as confidential information.
JMTA will protect the legal, professional, and personal rights of all clients. Statement of relationship to CBMT: the Japanese Music Therapy Association is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) to award Continuing Music Therapy Education Credits (CMTE). The Japanese Music Therapy Association, CBMT Provider #P-159, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria. Earning CMTE credits requires participant assessment, an evaluation form for CBMT, and a course fee.

*Please bring your CBMT Certification Number with you.