E-Book of Articles - World Federation of Music Therapy

Wheeler, Barbara: WMFT Proceedings of the Education Symposium
from Brazil, or Rolando Benenzon, Gabriela Wagner, Mónica Papalía,
Patricia Pellizzari, Rubén Gallardo, Gustavo Gauna or Diego Schapira,
from Argentina, have already published their work or will be publishing it
pretty soon.
Conclusion
I have been talking about history and development of Music Therapy
in Latin America for over 30 years, in spite of which this development has
been very uneven. We can observe a concentration of the activity in the
coast line that goes from East to West in the continent, and a strong
increase in the opening of training courses over these last few years.
The Latin-American Music Therapeutic community, is working hard in
order to grow and develop, to consolidate even more the courses already in
existence, and also, to allow more and more people to find their
professional option through this discipline.
It is my desire as a Latin-American, to be able to consolidate these
links that bound us together, as well as to widen this exchange to other
continents.
Mayra Hugo
Schiller 4679 10 B
12400 Montevideo, Uruguay
Phone: 598 2 308 3105
e-mail: mayrah@montevideo.com.uy
Discussion
There was a question as to whether there is a distinction between people
with psychologist or physician credentials who can practice independently,
and those without those credentials who could not practice independently
(as is the situation in Italy and France). There is no such distinction in Latin
America.
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