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• Work settings include medical and rehabilitation hospitals, schools, day care centers, group homes, assisted living
facilities, mental health institutions, and clinics.
• Employers include health care facilities and agencies, public school districts, and private practice.
• Clientele include, but are not limited to, persons with dementia, brain injury, chronic medical conditions, failure
to thrive, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, mental retardation, pervasive developmental disorders, psychiatric diagnoses,
sensory impairments, or those persons seeking a music-centered therapeutic approach.
• Services provided either in individual or group format.
• Client referrals come from medical or health care professionals, teachers, family members, or from the clients themselves.
Qualifications to Practice Music Therapy
• Students must study in an academic program which has been approved by the American Music Therapy Association and accredited
by the National Association of Schools of Music.
• Academic curriculum is competency based, but usually consists of courses in music, music therapy, psychology, natural
sciences, and general studies.
• Curriculum requires 1200 hours of clinical practice, including 900 hours of music therapy internship following the
successful completion of the rest of the student's coursework.
• Students who successfully complete the internship are eligible to sit for a certification exam offered by the Certification
Board for Music Therapists.
• Only persons who pass the certification exam are eligible to practice music therapy in the United States.
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