Occupation Atlasmusic therapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3d616092-b4fd-4c14-b0e9-a9119bbbd171
music therapist
Music therapists use music-therapeutic interventions to treat patients with behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions to prevent, mitigate or eliminate symptoms and to change behaviours and attitudes requiring treatment. They promote and maintain or restore the development, maturity and health of the patient/client by music-therapeutic interventions. Music therapy especially provides help for people with with emotional, somatic, intellectually or socially induced behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions, such as psychoses (schizophrenic disorders, bipolar disorders) and personality development disorders.
Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
SAISocial · Artistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.23
- A Artistic4.76
- I Investigative4.18
- C Conventional3.15
- E Enterprising2.51
- R Realistic2.36
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Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Music Therapists (29-1129.02): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (96)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- anthropology
- applied music therapy
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply music therapy assessment methods
- apply music therapy methods
- apply music therapy termination methods
- apply music therapy treatment methods
- apply organisational techniques
- assess music therapy sessions
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- behavioural therapy
- cognitive psychology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legal regulations
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct musical ensembles
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- demonstrate a technical foundation in musical instruments
- demonstrate musicianship
- design evaluation methods in music therapy
- design music therapy termination plan
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop educational materials on music therapy
- develop original melodies
- developmental possibilities in music therapy interventions
- direct movement experiences
- disability types
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- geriatrics
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- history of musical instruments
- human psychological development
- identify characteristics of music
- identify patients' behaviours
- implement evaluation methods in music therapy
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- integrate scientific findings into music therapy practice
- inter-professional communication in the psychosocial field
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical studies
- meet the requirements of legal bodies
- meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies
- music therapy processes
- music therapy schools
- music therapy theories
- neonatology
- neurology
- organise group music therapy sessions
- organise relapse prevention
- paediatrics
- palliative settings
- peer group methods
- perform musical improvisations in therapy
- perform therapeutic musical repertoire
- personal development
- plan music therapy sessions
- planning principles for music therapy interventions
- play musical instruments
- promote inclusion
- provide directions in music therapy sessions
- provide feedback on patient's communication style
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychiatric diagnostics
- psychological theories
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- psychotherapy principles
- recognise patients' reaction to therapy
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- record treated patient's information
- reflexion
- respond to changing situations in health care
- respond to incidents in music therapy sessions
- review music therapy treatment approaches
- sociology
- types of music therapies
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use music according to the needs of patients
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- use therapeutic communication techniques
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (14)
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- design musical events involving patients
- develop a repertoire for music therapy sessions
- neurophysiology
- pedagogy
- philosophy
- psychoacoustics
- psychoanalysis
- psychosociology
- relaxation techniques
- sexology
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- victimology
O*NET equivalents
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