E-Book of Articles - World Federation of Music Therapy

Wheeler, Barbara: WMFT Proceedings of the Education Symposium
* Catholic University of Salvador (1991)
* University of Riberao Preto (Sao Paulo) (1994)
* Paulist Faculty of Arts (Sao Paulo) (1998)
* Federal University of Goias (1999)
Five Official Postgraduate Training Courses, distributed as follows:
Four in Brazil
* Brazilian Conservatory of Music (1993) (Rio de Janeiro)
* Federal University of Goias (1997) (Goias),
* Paulist Faculty of Arts (1999) (Sao Paulo),
* Carlos Gomez Faculty (1999) (Sao Paulo),
One in Chile
* University of Chile (1999)
Besides all this “official” activity, we find that there are:
* Around 10 non-official courses of different sorts and lengths, that
take place in different countries, such as: Mexico, Peru, Argentina,
Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. The training course that
started in Uruguay in 1981, gave place to the creation of P.E.M.U.
(First School of Music Therapy of Uruguay) in 1992, that could not
continue after 1994 due to financial problems.
* 21 Music Therapy Associations, which are distributed as follows:
3 in Peru, 3 in Argentina, 11 in Brazil, 1 in Colombia, 1 in Mexico, 1
in Uruguay and 1 in Venezuela.
These Associations are constantly organizing Forums, Symposiums,
Encounters, working for the development of the discipline, and for it to
become officially recognized, in the countries where it is not yet
recognized. For example, the Uruguayan Association of Music Therapy
presented a project to the National University, which suggests that the
Music Therapy Training Course be a part of the University School of Music. A
program with two options of degrees is being studied by the University
authorities: Music Therapist (3 years) and Licentiate in Music Therapy (5
years).
The professionals who are already starting training courses in those
countries where we don’t find official activity, or who are gathered
around associations formed by just a few people, have studied in
Argentina, Spain, Brazil, or even Germany. They hold a very important
task: To outspread Music Therapy to make it grow and settle in sites
where it is usually very little known in real terms and above all, to give
this discipline a frame of seriousness and scientific acceptance since in
many countries, ordinary people and even other professionals in the field
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