E-Book of Articles - World Federation of Music Therapy

Wheeler, Barbara: WMFT Proceedings of the Education Symposium
In addition to the development of postgraduate training as entry to
the profession, there started in Heidelberg a program on the graduate level,
Fachhochschule, today called University of Applied Sciences, led by Volker
Bolay, Walter Selle and Rainer Boller.
As you can see in the chart we have today 8 university programs, all
entry to the profession:
Graduate levels, Fachhochschule: Heidelberg and Magdeburg (just
began in 1999)
Postgraduate levels, Universities with Diplom (Masters): Hamburg,
Witten/Herdecke, Münster, Berlin
Postgraduate levels, Universities with Advanced Studies, Certificate:
Frankfurt/Main, Siegen
German music therapy methods focus on psychotherapy.
Since January 1999 Germany has had a law as to who can be a
psychotherapist. This protected title does not include music therapy, which
means a confrontation with new psychotherapy guidelines and the
approbation title for music therapists, if they intend to do psychotherapy.
Some programs like Berlin and Hamburg have reformed their curricula
to discuss the recognition as music psychotherapy. The politics for music
therapy, comparable with standards of psychotherapy as a protected title,
is discussed in the societies.
There is a difficult discussion to decide on who would be covered with a
protected title.
The AMA Group developed guidelines for Lehrmusiktherapie, music
therapy self-experience, as one important subject in training the own
therapy process of the students. This is the important focus in
psychotherapy oriented programs like Hamburg, Berlin, and Münster.
Three study areas in Berlin are:
1. Clinical – Music Therapy Studies (Lehrmusiktherapie, individual
experiential training, and Clinical Practice with supervision, paid
separately)
2. Music Studies
3. Medical, Psychological, Scientific Studies
The various courses work on quality standards professional
comparison of the contents and examination procedures.
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