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

As the number of music therapists in Great Britain
increases, so the music therapists will gr-adually
become less unusual and less used to being seen as
"different". The number of music therapy training videos
and music therapy programmes will also increase and
the reactions to such productions will probably become
less strong. At present, however, it is interesting that
whereas books, articles or radio programmes on
specific styles of music therapy are acceptable, music
therapy on the screen is still likely to be criticised
strongly.
There has been much talk of producing an Association
of Professional Music Therapists (APMT) video over the
past few year end it may be that a document of this type
showing different styles of music therapy would be more
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acceptable to music therapists.
Conclusion .
This paper has shown that inspite of some
disadvantages, videotapes can be used in a number of
different ways to aid and improve the clinical work of the
music therapist.
Videotapes are also very useful to the music threrapist
for training and teaching purposes. Videotapes of music
therapy sessions can help the non-music therapist to
understand how music can be used in both simple and
complex ways to aid the client.
Music therapy videos will, however, strongly reflect the
personal style of work of individual music therapists.
This means that many music therapists fear that
incorrect assumptions about music therapy will be