Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

same patient-therapist relationship patterns as we can observe them for
instance in papers on nursing science. We are providing the current
content of the scientific debate on those topics in order to offer
preselected information for a reflecting practitioner.
One can explore our database on our website, which contains about 20
thousands sets of bibliographic data and information indicating whether
this article is in our house. Furthermore, bibliographic data can be
searched on our annual occurring CD-ROMs, which are published and
updated every year. Most of full text articles issued on our CDROMs are
prepared for download from our website as well. To publish your work
on these CDs you are invited to send us your work.
In order to provide such a service, insight into the music therapy
profession, its practice on the ward, in schools or mental health care
institution, into different music therapy approaches is necessary. It is of
great importance to discuss with ‘reflective practitioners’ to fit this
service to the needs of the music therapy world. Therefore we do not
focus only on our music therapy method taught in the house.
Training issues and doctoral students
And- surely this work is of importance for our students. Because this is a
University course there has to be proof of their ability for scientific
reflection. At the end of their training they have to write a thesis on a
certain scientific topic of interest. After having read most of the standard
textbooks during their study courses they are ready to ask more specific
research questions about their interests which have developed in practice.
Here over the two-year course we have accompanied them in study
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