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7/22/08 -
7/26/08 |
World Congress of Music Therapy: Music, Culture, Sounds and Health
PRESENTATION: The Color of Us: Music Therapy for Young Children Around the World
PRESENTER(S): Petra Kern with Renato Tocantins Sampaio, Simon Gilbertson, Hye Won Chung. Mikyong Kim, and Anja Tait.
DESCRIPTION: Music therapy has a long tradition in providing services to young children and their families. However, each country and continent has different ways of conducting music therapy, depending on federal regulations, prominent theories, and/or cultural values. In this session, attendees have the opportunity to receive a global perspective of music therapy with young children and their families.This panel will feature music therapy with young children and their families around the world. Internationally acclaimed music therapists of each continent (South America, North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa) with a wealth of clinical and research experience, will present the current status of music therapy with young children in their part of the world. Attendees will learn about demographics, specific settings and applications as well as service delivery models in music therapy of each continent. Background information related to federal regulations, theories and/or cultural influences will be discussed. Panelist will introduce common music therapy approaches applied in their part of the world and give an example from their clinical practice. An overview of prominent research conducted in early childhood will be presented from each continent. Panelist will include multimedia and also engage attendees in a children song/musical activity pertinent of their country. In a discussion followed, panelist will explore the following questions: 1. What would you like to see happen in the future?, 2. How can the international music therapy community learn from each other?, 3. How can we increase awareness of the benefits of music therapy for children in this part of the world and/or internationally? Attendees are invited to join in the discussion and will receive a summary of the panelists’ presentation.
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