Throughout the course MUS 471, Contemporary Music Therapy Practices, music therapy students explore practical frameworks that uphold and affirm human dignity and rights — including anti-oppressive, culturally responsive, decolonizing, anti-racist, queer-affirming, anti-ableist, and disability justice practices — and the intersections of these frames in music therapy education, training, and practice.
This collection includes student-developed resources in varied forms, created to address problems or gaps in the field. Resources are designed to be practical and accessible and may be implemented in clinical practice or in music therapy education, training, and ongoing professional development by music therapy students, practitioners, educators, and therapy participants.
Many resources also hold utility and offer guidance to those in fields beyond music therapy, including various healthcare disciplines, music practitioners broadly, and all those invested in affirming and strengthening human rights and social justice.
The creator of each resource owns copyright.
This collection was developed with instructional support and guidance from Joy Willenbrink-Conte, MA, LPMT, MT-BC, Austin Vocal Psychotherapist and assistant professor of music therapy at the University of Dayton.
