23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

IV. Principles for a formative curriculum of the
music therapist
We Propose some general principles, inherent to the
formative curriculum of the MTA, developed having
considered in depth the decade of experience of the
Four-Years Music Therapy Course held at the
"Permanent Education Centre", music section, of the
Pro Civitate Christiana of Assisi.
The formative curriculum makes provision for:
1. Admissions criteriea
2. Course contents
3. Methodology aspects
1. Admissions criteria
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The Pin-Pointing of evaluation criteria for the
candidates for the admission to the course of music
therapy must bear the following in mind:
- level of musical competence
- Psycho-physical equilibrium of the candidate
- an aptitude to carry out work of a therapeutic nature.
It is necessary to bear in mind that the evaluation of
musical competence involves a double inconvenience:
a) it excludes persons, who even though not adequately
musically cultured, have an instinctive capability to
utilize the language of sound-music;
b) it admits candidates who even though greatly
talented in sound-musical competence, are not suited
to communicating with said language in a therapeutic
relationship context.