Music therapy school consultation: A unique practice

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In current inclusive education environments, music therapists should give serious consideration to providing support to teachers and other professionals rather than engaging in direct therapy with students. Findings from case studies based on a recently developed music therapy school consultation protocol suggest significant potential exists for music therapists to work with educators, support staff, other therapists, and families, to enable them to use music to support student learning and development. However, the findings also suggest that consultation is a unique practice, requiring new knowledge and skills, which therefore brings with it particular professional and ethical issues that music therapists are likely to be unprepared for. This paper provides a brief rationale regarding the need for music therapy school consultation, and an overview of one music therapy consultation protocol, before some of the professional and ethical issues with regard to its implementation are discussed.View full textDownload full textKeywordsmusic therapy, consultation, school, inclusive education, children, special needsRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2012.654474