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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| music-therapist | Occupational skill for the role 'music therapist' (also: music therapy practitioner, music therapy counsellor). Use when the user asks for typical music therapist work such as: Adapt existing or develop new music therapy assessment instruments or procedures to meet an individual client's needs.; Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of specific treatments or therapy approaches.; Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy. |
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.
Core workflow
- Adapt existing or develop new music therapy assessment instruments or procedures to meet an individual client's needs.
- Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of specific treatments or therapy approaches.
- Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy.
- Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.
- Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.
- Confer with professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
- Customize treatment programs for specific areas of music therapy, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, educational settings, geriatrics, medical settings, mental health, physical disabilities, or wellness.
- Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- 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
Hot technologies
- Microsoft Office software
Hot technologies
Top tools from 47 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-18):
- electronic medical records (EMR) — 6 %
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3d616092-b4fd-4c14-b0e9-a9119bbbd171), ONET 30.3 (29-1129.02). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*